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  1. wilcal
    Found a render that may be more palatable to the local community:
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    Ho. Lee. $#ITballls. What an insane project. I love it.
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    Sidewalk still closed 2 days later. Cross members removed from walkway cover, so opening soon?
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    The person that posted that on Twitter was in-fact walking on the sidewalk, so they did become a de facto part of it. HPW said that the official policy is to report these to 311, which is pretty brutal as it easily takes days to investigate. It took me almost 6 months to force the Brass Tap (well, their landlord) to install grates over the tree planters because they added a patio and it made the sidewalk not ADA compliant. Turns out that they had their plan rejected from the city for this reason, built the patio anyway and never even paid the fee to utilize the city ROW. No repercussions and the solution that was developed still sucks (metal grates set on top of existing granite chunks which, you guessed it have adjusted/sunk a bit). So yes, being a lay-pedestrian and being annoying to the construction crews is... annoying to the crews, but the city barely gives a flying flip about sidewalk enforcement. In my mind, there is a social obligation to interfere in the process when it appears to break the law. There may be some leeway granted by the city, but the situation is that they have appeared to close the sidewalk without providing or marking an alternative, so they appear to be in violation. There are some four story town homes being built next door to me and they are finishing the framing on the third floor right now. I saw a worker tight-rope walking an exterior wall 2x4 cap without a safety harness. Should I not worry and trust that they are following the process? I'm not in the industry, but gonna guess that isn't part of the process. TLDR: construction companies don't get the benefit of the doubt from me, especially when blocking sidewalks are concerned lol
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    Houston Public Works actually commented on another discussion of the sidewalk and a lane of traffic being closed for The Sophie on Memorial and they said an ADA alternative must be established if the sidewalk is closed. Backtracking for wheelchairs is at least feasible on Westheimer. Not so much so on Memorial with one sidewalk. I'll see if I can swing by and see if the sidewalk has reopened yet. These covered sidewalk barriers are so NYC! lol
  6. wilcal
    Even if they are under construction, there's still supposed to be a temporary sidewalk if they close the main one.
  7. wilcal
    There's a great plan in place! It's just been kicked down the road to at least 2023 again. https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/37468-lower-westheimer-reconstruction
  8. wilcal
    That freshly poured sidewalk patch.... is now closed
  9. wilcal
    This is on Austin? Which cross street is that? I don't recognize it.
  10. wilcal
    Proposed amendments are up, but I don't have time to dig through them right now: https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/docs_pdfs/Proposed_Walkable_Places_and_TOD_Ordinance_Amendments_Planning_Commission_Public_Comment_Draft.pdf Public comment open on their site
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    You just spurred me to go back and look at that thread: It was "under contract" last year, but now listed as for sale again.
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    Listing says "Last updated 1/22/20" Doesn't say anything about being under contract anymore https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/801-St-Joseph-Pky-Houston-TX/12352462/ Did it specifically say under contract on this page?
  13. wilcal
    Always thought that the Days Inn would be up for something like that. Doesn't it have low ceilings and small-ish rooms?
  14. wilcal
    Wow, I didn't realize Austin's service area had grown so large. It's right at about 90 square miles. All of the area inside 610 is just under 100 square miles. The City of Austin's website actually lists out their micromobility operators and the quantity of scooters and ebikes they have available. Bird - 4,500 scooters JUMP - 2,500 scooters / 2,000 e-bikes Lime - 5,000 scooters Lyft - 2,000 scooters OjO - 500 scooters Spin - 750 scooters Wheels - 500 bicycles (Plus Revel with 500 mopeds)
  15. wilcal
    Funny, I feel mostly the same way, but with cars.
  16. wilcal
    I think they're banned because of the speeds involved. I think you're right on about these neighborhoods. I wonder if that's also a roadblock for the scooter companies as you would need a bunch of scooters to cover that service area.
  17. wilcal
    Thanks for the reporting! Interesting info to hear.
  18. wilcal
    FWIW, all electric powered vehicles are banned from all trails. Even the electric bcycles have stickers on them saying don't ride them on trails. I think Houston Parks Board not wanting anything electric (hell, they don't even allow non-electric scooters) is the biggest road block here. Everyone knows that the best place in Houston to ride these things would be Buffalo Bayou Park.
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    I'm kind of surprised that's in Going Up when... there's still not any plans about it Going Up. Also, how could I have missed that extremely descriptive headline haha
  20. wilcal
    At this point, I don't think that they'll approve them. At least with scooters in the form that they are in now. Lime just had a pretty significant service retraction. They left San Antonio, Atlanta, Phoenix, and more: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/as-lime-leaves-12-markets-a-note-on-scooters/ Also, I'm pretty sure the new CoH Sustainability project thing went out of its way to not mention scooters. It said multi-modality transport, but then mentioned bike share and car sharing.
  21. wilcal
    Looks like all of the glass panels will be up in the next 2ish weeks. Looking good!
  22. wilcal
    This months Bicycle Advisory Committee newsletter said that Hutchins is being developed first.
  23. wilcal
    Saw a thread on Nextdoor that was talking about it possible being torn down and I assumed that it was Montrose Collective, but someone else posted some links to some older articles when it was purchased back in 2012. HBJ articles from 2013: https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/breaking-ground/2013/11/happy-retail-tenants-could-slow.html Note: that article is from Nov 2013, so 6.5 years would be May 2020. This article from May 2018: https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2018/05/29/pmrgs-ceo-rick-kirk-on-merger-i-couldnt-shoot-any.html So, does anyone have the tea? Lots of commiserating about the loss of HPB, but that lot is like 60-70% surface parking and the appraisal in 2019 was $9 million.
  24. wilcal
    We so NYC
  25. wilcal
    Nope, it's evidently still happening but I'm not sure when. There was some additional drama brought up by some residents that opposed it at city council and they told planning to try to come up with solutions.
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