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  1. HOUTEX
    Ordinary bald cypress on the left, pond cypress on the right. There are literally dozens of bike racks sprinkled across the new streets and trail system.
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    No...it's not. That's a drainage spillway in the photo.
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    Let 'er rip! Time to get this candle lit and move some dirt.
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    Yes. Asphalt peels relatively easily and there are contractors that have large road-sized heaters that roll over the roadway and melt the tar for easier removal. The photos above are after the roadway had been scraped for a re-paving project that's going on right now. Brick roads built here more recently are atrocious examples of crappy engineering. The Washington roundabout is easily the best "worst" example of what can happen. In the instance of Jensen, those area roads have been there for 100 years and are in relatively great shape.
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    Thought it was interesting to see there's brick under Jensen Drive. I sorta wish they would just take the asphalt off and restore the brick!
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    Went last night and had a blast even with the rain. Saw Tenet and had no issues with the viewing. They had 2 food trucks and a couple of other vendors, plus the New Potato setup. Maybe there was just an off night last weekend?
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    I believe you appear to have overlooked the downtown, Washington Avenue, Montrose, River Oaks, Rice Village, Rice Military, Heights, Woodland Heights and Galleria areas.... Or that the larger of the two projects is in an oversupplied "blue" zone. HTH
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    This is a hollow argument. The presented "choices" aren't binary.
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    There are a variety of ways to achieve affordable living availability - concentrating it all in one spot creates as many issues as it seeks to solve. Integrate the same number of affordable units a few at a time into multiple market-rate complexes and the concerns would evaporate. City elders are taking a lazy approach and the existing community and future residents will both suffer for it in the long term.
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    To be clear, the two proposed projects are distinctly different tenant profiles. South of the bayou is getting the shaft.
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    Ojalla = mixed income, workforce housing (teachers, firemen, etc) NRP = replacement for Clayton homes, voucher program
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    Pretty sure Midway sold that site some time back.
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    The Laura was also engaged in the Texian Navy during the Texas Revolution if I remember correctly.
  14. HOUTEX
    Eh, all the rail bridges open an pivot open. Cut off the tower and re-weld it on arrival. Problem solved.
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    There's a gondola line in Portland that connects the waterfront to their medical campus up on a hilltop overlooking the city. Beats installing a funicular.
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    I sincerely doubt traffic simulations have figured any of that will ever be anything other than industrial. The best data they have would only show current daily car counts or old census data and some growth rate. Midway's plans were only just released and it looks like a lot of new office space and shops along or near by Jensen. For that reason I'd be there will be zero people that use Hirsch to get there if not forced to - plus they frequently park trains on Hirsch for long periods of time. It's not a good route south of I-10.
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    Traffic today can probably handle it. But traffic in any scenario where Hardy Yards , East River or Frank Liu's MDI Site have been developed and those thousands of additional drivers are getting off I-10 and you're gonna have backups for days at McKee & Hardy. Plus Nance is being closed.
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    Two exits today, one exit tomorrow. How is that not elimination?
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    And BTW, Hirsch/Waco is a mile away from Jensen TODAY. Afterwards it will be two miles between highway exits! Find that condition somewhere else inside the loop.
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    Not a conspiracy theory at all. There's an exit today at both McKee, and at Jensen. TXDOT is eliminating the latter and parsing words such that people will think the exit is only being moved to make it easier on themselves - no malice required. Two access points going to one. Seems pretty black and white. If you care to attack me or poke fun for simply passing along what we heard that's fine, but fact is a that will create more traffic issues getting into Near Northside and makes access to the Fifth Ward and East End more difficult.
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    There was a presentation at the East End District a couple weeks back where it was explained access for Jensen, Meadow and Gregg are all being removed/relocated back west of McKee, and that TXDOT has been using misdirection in wording when talking to the neighborhoods about keeping access. Apparently it seriously screws up access to Ninfas / Navigation and those businesses. We're in the Near Northside area and found out at a similar public meeting because of the expected huge increase in traffic. A representative with Greater Houston said they had been caught by surprise, but that it was on the list of grievances to address with TXDOT.
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    I wonder if any of this actually happens after TXDOT takes out the I-10 exit onto Jensen during the upcoming highway work. Will be too hard to access afterwards. Residential may still work, though.
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    I see that the buildings are totally down now. Does anyone have update photos?
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    How does one log into the planning agenda website?
  25. HOUTEX
    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/abandoned-building-lights-up-with-messages-new-future-for-property/285-547077836 For some perspective, the 65-block chunk that encompasses East River is more than four times larger than what might be Midway’s best-known development: CityCentre. “It basically is going to be a town, but it’s going to be a town that was conceived and developed and executed intentionally to be a pedestrian-oriented walkable community,” says Hightower. Even as Midway beats back the jungle, it’s planting a forest. The property is now home to roughly 300 trees, which were uprooted by construction along Post Oak Blvd. “These are trees that we will then transplant throughout the project as we develop,” Hightower explains. “We’ll use them for street trees and park trees.”
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