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Katy Will Be Larger Than The City Of Pittsburgh In 2 Years


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That kinda begs the question of definitions.  What all is in the "Katy area?"  Also, I'm willing to bet that he's referring to the city of Pittsburgh, which is totally landlocked by independent suburbs.  The city itself contributes less than half the population of the metropolitan area (or even just Allegheny County).

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From what I could tell, it appears they are referring to the boundaries of Katy ISD rather than Katy or Katy ETJ. The large majority of KISD falls under Houston ETJ, so I'm not sure I can agree. Katy is certainly ginormous for a suburb's standards regardless.

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The point the article is making is that the growth of the greater Katy area will create stress and a need for continued growth on the school system of Katy ISD. It uses an example to illustrate the problems facing the community and school district. The example being that the residential population living within the boundaries of Katy ISD will be greater than the population of the city of Pittsburgh and also larger than Pittburgh ISD population (I would assume).

 

I considered stating something to this effect when I posted the article but I thought to myself "No way this immediately devolves into an argument over the semantics of city/isd/unincorporated area boundaries. Everyone will certainly understand the verbage used comparing the two entities was designed to illustrate the challenges facing the city and not actually refer to the town of Katy being larger than the city of Pittsburgh, right... right...".

 

I was wrong. You win again interwebs!

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The point is well taken, but kind of obvious already, and isn't really an issue that's unique to Katy as most suburbs along the tract where grand parkway is or will be are experiencing the same problems  The article made a claim which is a falsehood; the fact that you anticipated someone making a comment regarding such only shows that you were already aware of it. Why couldn't the article have stated that Katy ISD will have a population larger than Pittsburgh? 

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I read the article before posting, and what I picked up on was that it kept referring to the "Katy area."  It would be clearer if it were more specific, but the article was quoting someone so the reporter doesn't get to make that change.

 

Offhand, I think that equating a growing suburban school district to a landlocked, old (by US standards, at least) city is a bit of a false equivalence.

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This article was clearly Click-bait. I mean a headline like that will get anyone curious. Then you read it and it tries to compare a decently larger american city to a suburban over sprawling mess of an area otherwise known as Katy! "Katy" proper is a small one horse town that has almost no relation to what is around it which is essentially a continuous growing appendage off Houston proper. It's not like the The Woodlands which is at least making a concerted effort to actually create a semblance of a city. Katy is the anti-city. Hopefully in the future there will be greater investment in actually growing from within instead of further out. /end rant.

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This article was clearly Click-bait. I mean a headline like that will get anyone curious. Then you read it and it tries to compare a decently larger american city to a suburban over sprawling mess of an area otherwise known as Katy! "Katy" proper is a small one horse town that has almost no relation to what is around it which is essentially a continuous growing appendage off Houston proper. It's not like the The Woodlands which is at least making a concerted effort to actually create a semblance of a city. Katy is the anti-city. Hopefully in the future there will be greater investment in actually growing from within instead of further out. /end rant.

Big problem is that the greater Katy area is really an "un-city" because of ETJ rules...because Houston is so close, Katy cannot annex and Katy's tumor-like suburbs cannot incorporate themselves either without Houston's prior approval, and Houston won't annex them because then they'll have to provide city services and all that jazz--some rules passed after the Kingwood annexation means that annexation isn't the free-wheeling thing it used to be.

Hence, Katy (and Cypress, and The Woodlands to an extent) continue to grow new suburbs at a cancerous rate, unable to find stability and long-range planning in a true city.

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