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I hope whoever buys this keeps that community garden

28 minutes ago, __nevii said:

Also, the city released a climate action plan back in 2020 that called for parking minimums to be abolished city wide no later than 2030 — I updated the one parking minimums thread that I saw elsewhere on the forum.

I'm thinking that they are extending exemptions piece-by-piece through the decade (startng inside 610 first, before gradually expanding to Beltway8 and beyond to even annexed Kingwood, Clear Lake, etc). I just don't want a situation like you mentioned, where they are too slow and "twiddle-their thumbs," only for politicians like Abbott to swoop in, and enact even more stringent controls against the cities than he is already is doing (i.e. the election laws in Texas Senate targeting Harris county being the most egregious).

Man I'm very afraid that cities in Texas are going to lose all control of doing what they feel is best for themselves. It's a really scary time in Texas to have a single party try to take so much control. Now as far as city leaders moving with a sense of urgency, I hope we see 610 parking minimums lifted soon. We're literally shooting ourselves in the foot trying to build dense urban neighborhoods because developers are having to accommodate cars and not people. It's so stupid. 

58 minutes ago, __nevii said:

 

I haven't seen much of what became of this topic other than the initial remark, tbh. Ned did eventually apologize, although I'm not sure if Turner took it personally to reach out for that, or if the apology was simply given after the responses from Turner, Lina, etc.

If Turner reached out personally, then it was indeed overdone. But I will say that addressing Ned's remarks, especially in disagreement, isn't necessarily "insecurity": that stuff is just irrelevant ad hominem/affirming-the-consequent fallacy, no different that MAGAs crying "WOKE" in response to pushback against their policies.

Yeah he ended up calling him to ask about his comments and then from what I understood, asked for an apology. If we're going to tout ourselves as the 4th biggest city, we need to quit crying over spilled milk comments from random people. From what I gathered, a lot of people liked Houston and had a great time. Now I do personally believe his comments were nonsense. Downtown was alive, and people were everywhere. If he had a bad time, that's his boring ass fault. 

Hopefully this is a sign that this part of downtown is starting to take off. If just 2 lots could be converted to residential, it would really make this area feel more dense. 

4 hours ago, jessicau said:

Have you tried 311?  There is a website you can make a report online. The city fixed some car poles that fell over on Quitman and Fulton. But one has fallen again.

Oh yeah, I've filed 311's, contacted the Northside Management District, etc. .

Wow what a joke. I just saw the plans Scarlett Capital has for the Jack In the Box on Navigation. They're really setting a high bar for development 😒

On 5/12/2023 at 3:40 PM, hindesky said:

If they leave the ROW like that, then I'm going to go crazy

While I'm happy about the bike lane along Heights, I don't mind armadillos but the city doesn't move fast enough to repair those that are damaged or broken.  W Cavalcade is a gravesite for damaged armadillos. I've contacted the Greater Northside a couple of times to get those fixed and that was over 2 years ago. 

6 hours ago, Texasota said:

I thought my opinion of the archdiocese was already as low as it could get. I can't completely believe they're doing this.

When they demolished the original Incarnate Word building I was devastated

Last night downtown was pretty packed with young people. I've never known Downtown to be mostly the older crowd, I've always seen a good mix 

4 minutes ago, mkultra25 said:

University of St. Thomas.

Ahh ok duh .

On 4/26/2023 at 3:57 PM, trymahjong said:

Council District C Kamin spoke of Montrose TIRZ stepping up to finish improvements to Alabama street- returning it to 3 lanes- middle lane is a turn lane. These lanes would have already been painted as turn lanes but COH is short staffed on painters.

That's such a lame excuse. If someone wanted something done it would happen. The city seems to be short staffed on just about everything. Either way I'm glad something is finally happening. 

On 4/27/2023 at 8:06 PM, hindesky said:

They seem to working on the sidewalks for now on in the section between HEB and UST.

What is UST? 

Another parking lot? wth

I'll take a street lined with mid/high-rises all day. Hopefully more properties along Kirby will continue to redevelop, I'm personally waiting for HEB to make a move

Nice to finally start seeing the density we've been wanting all over the city

Man I hope this is true because that medical building was trash. SLC builds some really nice developments. 

Damn that's a huge blow to the area

On 4/13/2023 at 9:09 AM, Naviguessor said:

Cannot Wait, until this topic just blows over.  It's embarrassing insisting on an apology and shows everyone just how insecure we can be.

Just let the breeze of time carry it away already.  

I agree. Mayor Turner should have never called him back expecting an apology. 

Are there any plans to rebuild the street with proper drainage? I remember seeing plans for Taylor. 

1 hour ago, bayoucitysfinest said:

I’m actually excited about this project. Identity architects have built some beautiful buildings over the past few years. I’m hoping for a coffee shop and somewhere to grab a bite to eat at this location! I live in the area and think this will be awesome! Any images of the rendering??

I won't be excited if they put parking the in the front again.

31 minutes ago, Luminare said:

Its a project worth well over $9 Billion, they still have to get all the land, perform demo, etc... and its one of the busiest highways in the city...yeah its going to take a long time to do this. Should it take 20 years? Probably not. My guess is that this is a very conservative estimate on the timeline. I think most big highway jobs anyway take between 5-10 years, but certainly current economic conditions, inflation, and labor shortages are going to make projections for this very conservative to start off. If we go into a recession, experience deflation, and easing in the labor market then that might help accelerate the timeline. I don't know why now all the sudden this has convinced you that this isn't needed. The whole point of a project like this is that it isn't necessarily about our current needs, but for future needs, and yes that means it won't be finished on the timeline you think it will happen. I'm honestly curious what you thought the timeline would be. If one isn't familiar with civil projects, or timelines for projects of this scale then I can understand why someone might think this is crazy, but it really isn't. Its going to take a long time, lots of traffic, lots of headache, but when else would be a better time? This highway is in the worst shape of any of the other highways. This is the last big highway in Houston that hasn't had a significant rebuild to current standards. Take 290, which took forever. I think that one was 10 years. Its a much better highway now. Last time I was in Houston I was amazed at how quickly you can get from Downtown to Cypress for instance. By the way. If this money were to instead go to train infrastructure it would still take 10-15 years. There are certainly quicker ways to do this, but this is typical government timeline. Take it or leave it.

I mean I'm not naive to any of this. I get it's going to take time but I guess it just made me realize how much longer we have to wait for areas of this city to see real change. I also understand this is a NEED for this city. And yeah I'm not excited about this project exceeding 20 years but it is what it is. Thanks

Wow yeah F that, 20+ years!? And they wouldn't start on the capped park section until 2031. I've been on the fence about this for a while but this schedule just convinced me this is not what we need. 

Yeah it looks like UK is about to start on it's two stretches of W Alabama soon

6 hours ago, samagon said:

the place is rife for something to happen. I went to the Skinny Puppy show a few weeks ago, which was only moved here from HOB because I think they needed a bigger venue.

but yeah, just a sad state. just this music venue and Sundance (whatever they call it now) movie theater. I struggled to find somewhere to pregame before the show, so I was stuck with movie theater booze (which pours just as well as any bar, I guess, just not the atmosphere I was going for).

anyway, I'd guess the movie theater is struggling to find reasons to stay considering how not busy they were on a Friday night, and no restaurants to speak of. I will eventually miss that movie theater though, super easy to get tickets for anything, and in prime seats even on opening night.

The theater is closing or are you saying once things redevelop? 

The diamond keeps shining