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  1. Kinglyam
    Not just that, but all our drainage bayous are undersized for the increased flow we're getting from all the development out west, Katy and beyond. Add to that a ground surface that's sinking due to subsidence. Plus, there's a drive now to reintroduce habitat and naturalize bayou flow paths. There's always going to be concrete in the lowest portion of the floodway (like Buffalo and White Oak Bayous near Heights), but they may bench above that with just dirt. Widening is going to depend a lot on the surrounding development, though, and they may have to concrete-line more of the bayou in areas where they can't widen it as much.
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    To listen to some of the "drivers" downtown, that's exactly what the light rail was doing the first couple of year's operation! Triton, I'm a poor judge of speed, admittedly, but I'm pretty sure the trains don't do 45 through there. They appear to be doing 20 or so at best. But, yes, I realize it's only a stop sign. They have to signalize it with drop arms, at least. But one little podunk intersection, surely that's not so hard? For that matter, once the Main-Burnett intersection is complete, would it be reasonable to just abandon that road? It's already gone to heck in a handbasket with the rerouted traffic, and gods know it's not likely to get fixed anytime soon. I imagine the street connectors to downtown that are included with the Hardy developments will include signalized crossings that are paid for by the developer, so they can get that whole line silenced from Maury. On a side note, that old warehouse would make an awesome shell for a commercial redevelopment, perfect for the UHD crowd. Throw in a coffee shop, bar, maybe small food court...
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    As well as amazing sounds, at least until they silence the rail crossing at Daly/Trentham, plus whatever new crossings this development creates. There must be 20 trains a day through there, at least. I can't believe they still have to sound the horn for that one little crossing, but go silent when they cross I-45.
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    I forgot about the Fiesta, thanks for the correction. But I don't think it's going to be enough for the proposed development. With the number of people the rail yards would bring in, it looks too small. And, let's be blunt, Fiesta doesn't appeal to the primary market demographic for the mixed-use development. Fiestas are a mostly blue-collar demographic, while most of the new people coming to the yards are likely to be white-collar. I expect most of the residents of the new development (and surrounding redevelopment) to want a higher-end HEB or something similar. As for restaraunts, other than Tex-Mex and fast food, what's in the area? I've never seen anything.
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    Yep. I talked to the construction foreman a couple of weeks ago (before the rain started). They were scheduled to start ripping up the north side of Burnett last week, but it looks like the rain delayed them. It's supposed to go on for 3 months once they start tearing up the road itself. The elevation of Burnett will be dropping pretty significantly starting about where that picture is taken (Everett St.) That intersection will get dropped at least a foot, he said. The side streets are going to curb-and-gutter back to about 150 feet from Burnett, as well.
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    It's been there since late last year. I've never heard a peep about it. It's all still listed on HCAD as belonging to the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church. Probably they've got some kickback scheme with developers going on. I hear that's pretty par for the course with the churches that own half the property in 4th Ward.
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    Right now they're doing the street widening and they're building the Metro TC at the light rail station. They're due to rip up Burnett next week, drop it a couple of feet, and put in the four-lane curb-and-gutter. I find it hard to imagine anyone would think making that area nothing but apartments is in any way useful. There's negligible residential amenities in the area. Are they expecting people to move to a massive suburban-sized apartment complex in an urban area where there are no supermarkets, shops, or restaurants to speak of? Isn't this Residences that folks are talking about the same one that an earlier posting said is to be on the southeast corner of the Hardy Yards?
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    I'm pretty sure that's what it is (infrastructure). I saw the bids let out for that earlier this year, which were for the eastern portion of Burnett. Nothing was supposed to happen on the rail yards until the infrastructure is in place.
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    I do live there, two blocks up the street on Bailey, next to Victory Apartments. I was hoping we'd end up with a good strip of retail from here down to Bagby. I thought that mixed use at Dolce Living might put an end point on the development around the curve on Gray, increasing the chances of mixed-use re-development in between to connect them. Is it too much to ask of Houston to come up with one area where you can go more than 2 blocks without running out of retail? Hopefully whoever takes over the block with the check cashing store and "Buddhist temple" will put in mixed use, at least.
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    So they get the variance, then change the design? Lovely bait-and-switch. I was all for it when I thought it was going to actually add to the neighborhood, now it's a crock. We hardly need another mega-apartment complex here. Guess I'm going to have to hope that Hardy Yards finally develops nicely, and they don't end up taking my corner lot when they widen Burnett. Otherwise I'm out of luck for having a house near a nice pedestrian area in Houston.
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