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Golly jeepers, then done got themselves a performance artist at the Walmarts! http://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/Walmart-s-Warhol-has-fans-in-the-shopping-lanes-4624518.php Your move 19th street. (May I suggest a man juggling electric chain-saws)

The Elites would ridicule the national chains that would rent there, moaning that the average Pottery Barn shopper thinks that Yesteryear and Yore are design eras. Blah,blah,blah, it's never ever going to be good enough for them.

I gots my Walmart! Right now I'm taking my Walmart brand Cialis with my Walmart brand red cream soda, while I eat me a steak-um sandwich dusted with my Walmart-brand Cheeto-stained fingers. I better go cus my sister/wife has the NASCAR Blu-ray in the player and she is getting her dentures out of the Mr. Coffee maker. Yee-ha! Looken forward to seeing her in her Paula Deen lingerie!

How about doing us ignoramuses a favor by creating an Audible version of the document? Maybe you can get James Lipton to narrate it with full dramatic effect.

Has anyone contacted the mayors office about this idea?

Well they said Walmart would increase traffic....most of it from the anti-Walmart folks. To think of all the pollution they caused by coal-powered data enter utilization.

I personally think the sidewalks on I10 are not wide enough. I should have enough room to pass while walking no matter if HPD is running traffic enforcement operations. The Heights got screwed again.

Wow, check out for a few days and things get interesting. You would think by all the drama that someone suggested that the Foodarama be moved to 19th street. You know that might be a good idea considering they're local.

As a native Houstonian I can testify that some "dirt" is less permeable than concrete.

I'm guessing there was not much as a peep from the new architects regarding the saving of the clock. While a cool feature it's not consistent with their "modernization" of the building. With cellphones no one really needs a giant device telling them the time and temperature. Maybe they could place it on top of the Greyhound station to give out the number of parolees on each bus, or the current price of crack. ;-)

It takes a special kind of class to stick your nose in the lives of others.

Probably not, because majority of traffic jams are the result of individual actions as concluded by a recent study.http://gizmodo.com/5984934/most-traffic-jams-are-caused-by-just-a-handful-of-idiots The argument that the Fiat would be better judges traffic as solely being caused by length of vehicle not number of variables per driver. However if the individual is the cause of traffic, then it's ever worse with a small car as now you have doubled the amount of drivers with the potential to make poor choices in the space that would hold one SUV or pick-up driver. So what is viewed as efficiency by fitting more cars in the same space is actually detrimental as the number of drivers and variables has increased.

Cars allow too much freedom and autonomy which is why we overlords must find pet causes and issues to corral the masses into "options" that allow us greater control over their movements. Reliance on municipal services creates further dependance, and can be used to our advantage in games of carrot and stick. The challenge is identifying and staying on top of modern societies' versions of bread and circuses. As it currently stands Superbowl 2017 should provide enough justification for any increase in taxation, fees, and restrictions.

I would take this is a sign that you're doing something right. Dysfunctional systems will do anything, through any means, to justify their ends. Think of the contrast between a set of rules they want everyone to live up to, and the number of rules they are willing to break to retain their grip on power.

Yes, Metro buses do tear up our streets, do cause congestion, and some how get their own lanes.

Every road the government builds is already a toll road. The difference is instead of an EZ tag you use a 1040EZ. (Or at the gas pump, or through property taxes, or, or, or...) Now there those that don't pay any of the above, and yet somehow they feel entitled to demand that those that do pony up even more dollars.

More like Anti-your-Luddite-vision-of-the-Heights. Your labeling of this forum an echo chamber makes sense given your previous statement that the debate was over. Typical tyrant action when views run opposite of ones own vision or belief system. The debate is never over because nothing in life is ever finished. The whole Heights Local movement is preposterous and laughable at best, given that the equally stupid, anti-global market Local movement defines "Local" as a journey of no more than 500 miles. As the Heights grows your 19th street landlords will "turn evil" when they accept the more lucrative rent offers from evil corporate chains.

No. Pay your own way.

Let me guess, mass-transit projects largely funded and subsidized by taxpayers.

Good news!

Why? What is so bloody magical about people having less space and living on top of one another? Do you enjoy waiting in line? Do you reach the counter at the Breakfast Klub, and say "oh, that was not long enough, I'm getting back in line."? If you have big city dreams why not explore NYC, Chicago, Boston, or Philadelphia? Houston will always let you down if this is your true desire.

Besides Westheimer, West Gray, University bvld, Kirby, S. Shepherd, etc. People from the burbs also come to Old Town Spring, which has kept the area alive in the face of declining methamphetamine prices. I think 19th shop owners should be required to remain in character ala Rennesaince Festival workers while tending their shops.

Like things are not already pedantic enough around here... I guess that all depends on what you consider average. DJ's? Audiophiles? College Students? Most of the 220 gram vinyl I see these days is the kids/hipster crowd as this is the demographic that has rediscovered vinyl. The Audiophiles have moved on to SACD, DVD-Audio, Blu-spec CD's and whatever else evolves at that end of things. DJ'S... I see cheap DJ-targeted CD players with pitch control, etc, but I've never come across a cheap Techniques 1200MK2.

Nothing is set in stone that states that mom & pops always fail and corporate franchises always succeed. Savy owners and operators know how to meet the needs of their customers or they learn by their costly failure. (Some don't learn, they just have big trust funds) For example... Boomtown Coffee. Good coffee, passionate owner, but I don't go because the cigar smoke from the place next door is so bad that I cannot stand to be there more than 10 minutes. The cigar place has been there longer than Boomtown, and I'm all for people enjoying whatever makes them happy, but there is an impact to adjoining businesses. I'm not sure Boomtown's owners fully grasped what they would be dealing with when choosing that location. I hope they make it, but I won't be surprised if they don't. However, if Starbucks were to show up, and Boomtown inevitably closes 19th street lovers would be crying out that corporations killed the mom & pop. Adapt and change or fall by the wayside.

According to Mint.com Menchis received $450 of our targeted Heights expenditures. Can't seem to locate any money spent at the bohemian trinket shop. Penzy's took in around $300 for gifts and whatnot. Again, can't seem to locate any for musty antique stores. Rather odd... Then again these businesses do stay open later to accommodate demand, rather than shutting down at 420.