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On 1/8/2024 at 9:49 AM, steve1363 said:

@hindesky love the foliage.   Any idea what type trees these are? 

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. 

On 4/25/2023 at 3:46 PM, wilcal said:

Based on the Buffalo Bayou East Master Plan, there does appear to be a pedestrian bridge across the bayou at this location:

The picture you posted is aligned with Gregg St. No idea if East River is planning on paying for the proposed bridge.

 

 

No...it's not. 

That's a drainage spillway in the photo. 

On 11/7/2020 at 1:46 PM, zaphod said:

Is it even possible to scrape off the asphalt? It seems to be flaking off naturally but how do you grind it down without tearing up the brick too?

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. 

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?

7 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

 

Interestingly, the locations of the affordable housing project being discussed here are in the areas marked as having good transportation but low supply of affordable housing.  Seems like a perfect location.

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

On 5/1/2020 at 4:23 PM, Tumbleweed_Tx said:

Affordable housing has to go somewhere, and part of the affordable part is low cost land.

You would prefer that the East End stay all shotgun shacks and 1930's apartment buildings? That's what y'all got in the 70's when they stopped the Harrisburg Freeway

This is a hollow argument. The presented "choices" aren't binary. 

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. 

To be clear, the two proposed projects are distinctly different tenant profiles. South of the bayou is getting the shaft. 

Ojalla = mixed income, workforce housing (teachers, firemen, etc) 

NRP = replacement for Clayton homes, voucher program

On 3/27/2020 at 12:31 PM, JBTX said:

 

Soil sample crews are back on site again. Interestingly, the Midway signs have been taken down.

Pretty sure Midway sold that site some time back. 

The Laura was also engaged in the Texian Navy during the Texas Revolution if I remember correctly. 

Eh, all the rail bridges open an pivot open. Cut off the tower and re-weld it on arrival. 

Problem solved. 

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. 

4 hours ago, Luminare said:

 

Have you done millions of dollars worth of traffic studies and committed hours upon hours of time dedicated to traffic analysis over the next 10-20 years?

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. 

31 minutes ago, Houston19514 said:

 

Traffic going to Jensen can survive a couple of traffic signals.

 

The plan shows the access road going underneath railroad bridges for both railroad crossings.

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.

2 hours ago, Houston19514 said:

 

No, they are not eliminating the exit to Jensen. Merely relocating it.

Two exits today, one exit tomorrow. How is that not elimination?

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

I see that the buildings are totally down now. Does anyone have update photos?

How does one log into the planning agenda website?