Using asphalt more efficiently

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Thu, 10/22/2009 - 2:23pm

Most mornings on my way into work, I stop at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on South Lamar, a new coffee shop between Riverside and Barton Springs, one door down from Bridges on the Park.

 (The building used to be a soccer store.)

If you are looking for an example of how code mandates too much parking, here you go.

According to Travis County tax records, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf occupies an 8,861 sf building.

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