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When establishments are built on the Metro line--are they encouraged to build housing above?

I would like to know the intentions of those lots and also am wondering about the house down the street next to Sacred Heart tatoo-- It's been recently painted but still has significant vine growth up throught the roof. I had been old by Neighborhood protection that it had been investigated and found "unsafe" and would be torn down-- still. . . . . a new coat of paint on the front porch?

Perhaps by paroling Clyde Barrow in 1932?

Avondale Civic Association boundaries----( On the East side) Bagby to (On southside) westheimer until Taft then south to Lovett to (westisde) Montrose to (Northside) Fairview street (south side id the street ntill Taft then both sides to Bagby---Avondale has two designated Historic districts within its' boundaries. 600 Avondale (across street from Cheek coffee founders) is on the proposed avondale Historic Home tour as Gov. Ross Sterlings Home.

I did intend to write fiesta as this was mentioned during the introduction of the master plan and I thought the Menil might have considered obtaining it but then rejected that idea-- I suppose I misunderstood.

This is the plan the Menil has accepted and will implement--how soon will be see changes begin? The Menil chose not to purchase the HEB property?

I was told the property on southwest corner of Westheimer and Montrose was sold in 2008 but since no development has taken place, I wonder if that is still true. But to think that a developer wouldn't be interested in that property because of "sketchy" people hanging around the covenant house is perhaps naive-- otherwise how would gentrification of deteriorating neighborhoods some to pass. Developers are motivated by profit-- If that property could be developed with a huge profit-- it would happen. There are other things that puzzle me --- I have worries of what will happen to Alabama street when Richmond is wrecked during Metro construction. --the Metro community meetings give the impression Alabama will be used as a detour--perhaps one way towards downtown (what street will be designated for the "other way?" I also wonder how the "ideals" of the Montrose Conservancy Group will be able to "beautify" Montrose Blvd with a median, bike path and full size sidewalks--- the street seems too narrow to begin with and the thought of loosing the tree canopy to widen it seems grim. Plus with the" charette" proposing a traffic circle at the intersection-- what will be come of Aladdins Restaurant--the only restaurant that seems to thrive on that corner?

I had been watching to see if any posts delt with the traffic deaths of the men on their motorcycle on fairview-- this happened last week between Barnaby's and Dean's--- The traffic has gotten so much worse. Speeding problems in this area are as bad as the parking problems. Coincidentally, Dean's and Boheme seem to be taking the parking problem more seriously as both are now offering valet parking (the lots leased are on Westheimer). Now if the City would address the Speeding problem. A stop sign between Montrose and Taft would be a good start. Tow trucks in this area are the worse speeders. I'm hoping HPD takes a closer look at this problem before another tragedy happens.

The "charette" people are going to issue a report--as I understand it-- there are to be suggestions to slow down traffic entering the intersection--one of the suggestions was to narrow the streets coming into the intersection-- then of course the traffic circle is suppose to also slow traffic-- however I'm thinking that the idea of narrow lanes plus the traffic circle will have drivers looking for an alternative route. I personally had hoped that the orginial art deco design of the building where the half priced books is located might have shown up in the drawing. There is a previous thread that posted pictures of the building. With the emphasis on preservation in this particular part of Montrose, I was surprised that the design was so Modern.

i live close to these bars and somedays are better than others when it comes to parking hassles --but the "other" days can be horrible--blocking sidewalks. parking up to the stop sign so you can't see oncoming traffic, or bumpers sticking way into your driveway--mainly tho-- it's coming home each day to the hassle of searching for on street parking by your apartment--when you attended a civic meeting and the owner of the bar aknowledged the parking "nightmare situation" and made promises --not to complicate it further here is the COH code-- you can do the math as you gauge the square footage of Boheme, Dean's and Ziggy's-- now of course there's Pinot and Picasso on taft--it's funny but if you talk to any of thse owners they all refer/allude to TNT's parking as a resource--that might add up to 7 spaces total--still not enough to cover the requirements of each as set down by COH http://www.municode....id=10123&sid=43 chap 26--art vIII division 2 class 7 =>10.0 spaces for every 1,000 square feet of GFA and outdoor decks, patio and/or seating areas could it get worse? another rumor has the owner of "hungry's" buying the former market at taft anf fairview and wanting to put in a chinese restaurant---

Interesting-- when you live in the neighborhood-- you hear things-- I've heard Boheme's liquor license is up for renewal and the local neighborhood civic isn't happy with the parking, traffic and noise issues-- apparently the owner of Boheme charmed the assoc with promises of back yard parking --full front parking and off site parking-so no protest would be lodged in 2007- -the parking problems has only gotten worse since Dean's apparently "lost" the agreement to park off hours at the Cotton Brothers lot across the street- and ziggy's is still tied up in court with the lot owners (next to reeves antiques) -and the lot across the street will be "tenant only" or the "new " cafe? -a nightmare-- if you live in the apartments there and depend on "on" street parking----you really get fed up -- fast-- plus the lack of parking makes the amount of circling cars searching for available parking--another nightmare-- i'm thinking the civic club will be wondering if Boheme makes good on the parking promises or a mass mailing to TABC + COH permits might be in the future-- will that be beneficial? who knows-- but probably will be replayed later as Ziggy's and Dean's come up for renewal-- what ever happens traffic will still be a nightmare

Ever heard of Ecclessia? Taft at Drew street? Not really a church-- since they didn't apply for permits as a CHURCH (permits for coffee house and art gallery YES--church--no--permit requires x number of spaces per square foot of space --this building has no off street parking)-- 3 times each Sunday, dozens and dozens amd dozens of cars park in and around and block driveways/sidewalks-and leave no passageway for local traffic or heaven forbid for emergency vehicles (the sidestreets are narrow)- The local civic organization has meet with Ecclessia many times over many years and gotten nowhere-- COH same thing-- HPD solution was to start calling and reporting parking violators-- the local residents decided to try that-- this is what happened-- This is what was posted on youtube by whomever took video--A few seconds before this video began we had asked this constable to ticket two cars that were blocking a sidewalk, he was also blocking the sidewalk, but that this another issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O88-3weR90 Why is HPD giving Ecclessia special consideration?

"Now, Elgin turns into Westheimer once you get west of Brazos, but at one point, it was called Hathaway St at that portion, I guess a "buffer" name between the two names of the major throughofare" When the AVONDALE area was platted for development 100 years ago a contest was held to name the development-- a dozen people split the prize money with the name "avondale"---Hathaway was part of the "shakespeare" theme for streets nearby--like stratford--helena etc TAFT was called something else i think when first platted--but i'm not sure what--somehow it must have been changed when TAFT won the 1908 election--