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It's really a shame someone took George's post down on Nextdoor....that ridiculous statement of his should be up there forever for all to see.... I wonder if Brie can go back to the HAHC and request new windows if she can't find anyone to repair them..

for anyone interested in following this... at the March HAHC meeting, a homeowner wanted to replace their old windows with new, identical looking, wood windows and were denied. They wanted energy efficient windows so that the money they were spending on the new Hvac wasn't literally seeping out the old windows. I think most of us thought in the early days of the ordinance (or maybe it was just me) that you could replace your old windows with identical LOOKING wood windows (that were operable and energy efficient, etc) and that would be fine, within the ordinance. It's my understanding that the HAHC granted window replacement with identical looking wood windows before the 90-day waiver period was abolished. Now you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to prove your windows are damaged. (i'm not saying they never let people replace windows now...they allow a few here and there....but I personally feel like they have never seen an old window they don't think is un repairable...and technically, there aren't any...you could patch and fill and rebuild until the cows come home...that's not the point.) Never mind the argument you want modern functioning, energy efficient windows. They are seriously suggesting people put up storm windows to help with that? So you now have to decide if you want energy efficient windows or the ability to open them on a day like today? Oh, wait......let me take off my storm window, put up my screen...wiggle this stubborn window open......give me a break. Maybe I should go buy a home in Katy instead...obviously I don't deserve my old house. Anyway, this homeowner appealed to the planning commission (April 11th meeting) and there was some good discussion. The matter has been deferred for two weeks so the homeowner can show pictures of how the new windows will be identical and if her windows are operable. I really think the decision the planning commission makes is going to be important. Important because the HAHC is expecting people to live in the past and that's ridiculous.

regarding the "official" guidelines they are working on, I simply can't WAIT to see what they come up with now that the 90 day waiver period was taken out of the ordinance. In the March meeting, one of the board members actually admits that their decisions, prior to the 90 day waiver period being axed, are different from the ones they make now.

Yes, beyond the usual insanity that occurs at the HAHC meetings, I was happy to see Sue Lovell (former city council member) stand up multiple times at the March meeting to support the homeowners in front of the board. It's worth a watch. I am not sure who contacted her and coordinated this effort but ......thank you whoever you are! She was one of the few sane voices there and had many good points to make.

Yes, I spelled that right. Hou-storic. Get it?! Anyway, forgive me if this is already posted somewhere...I couldn't find it... Edit: Benjamin A. Shepherd founded one of the first independent banks in Texas in 1854- Houston Savings Bank. In 1886; F.A. Rice - President; B.A. Botts, Vice-President. A website I just discovered: http://houstoricproject.com/

i guess i went into mccains once a month or so in an effort to support a local business... as time went on, it became a little annoying at how inconsistent the inventory became...i would go back in to get that sauce or cheese i liked before and they no longer had it or it was always 'on order' or something similar... i keep thinking if they had an ice cream cone counter......what a difference that might make??

my favorite quote from the article: To make matters worse, animals were getting sick after the summer free days because too many people were throwing cotton candy and other items into their pens, zoo officials said.

http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/byimage.htm

just a guess, but it might be reference to and a shortened version of "Westheimer Avenue", or "West Ave" ?? That's my guess, anyway..

I went yesterday and I too wondered who was a Haifer and who wasn't. My first impression was how nice the downtown skyline looked looming over the shopping center.

oh!! the TWENTY-sixth..not the sixth...i must have remembered it wrong..thanks.. can't wait!

any news on the opening date? A while back someone heard it was scheduled to open today..I take it that isn't going to happen...

I agree the area needs a dessert/ice cream place... amy's and the chocolate bar are such a hike...and those places do such a great business because they stay open to a resonable hour (ie. after dinner...)

their records only really go back to the late 80's online... but you can look at how high the taxes are going!

houston ray...I also replied to this same one over in the Historic section...but in case you don't see that one.. here is a good place to start: http://www.houstonheights.org/historicalresearch.htm the sanborn maps can be accessed online through the library (you must have a library account) and the last forty or so years of deed records are listed at the Harris County Clerk's website with an account at ancestry.com (or probably free from the library) you can find old census records (when i looked up my home it showed the renters living in it but didn't list the owners) looks like pretty much everything else will have to be done in the library (old directories where Wendyps said) or sifting through the deed records downtown at the clerk's office..

I looked up my bungalow on the 1930's census records to discover that a husband and wife were raising their four sons in our two bedroom, one bath bungalow... i think people these days are (a) obsessed with square footage, ( have too much crap and c) don't get out enough - too much tv, computer, playstations, etc..back in the old days the whole neighborhood suplemented your lack of square footage.. i sometimes think people must not like their family members as they insist on getting these huge houses out in the 'burbs where you can possibly not see/hear another human for hours if not days.. heck, i probably know more about my neighbor's habits than those *blessed* with crap loads of square footage do about their own family members... i hate to harp on about the trend to go bigger but we had a hard time finding living room furniture that wasn't abnormally gigantic..