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    Interesting - when I still had a car, I never had trouble finding a spot in the central garage.
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    Yes. And the TIRZ system incentivizes districts to create economically productive urban cores.
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    My bad. Gist stands, though. Unless his plan is to actually install ADA-minimum sidewalks absolutely everywhere, it's just phony virtue signaling.
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    I do think he is anti-TIRZ, and I do think he views them as inequitable. And in a simplistic sense, they are. The problem with that view is that it ignores the fact that they are wealth-generating engines for the city in addition to their local communities. And given the geographic scope and longstanding traditions of antiurban land use even in denser areas of the city, the whole "no sidewalk improvements on Washington until all the streets in Deer Park have sidewalks" line of thinking is absurd on its face. There is no resiliant future for Houston that isn't nodal.
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    I was worried because he had made negative comments about Washington Ave getting 8-foot sidewalks when Deer Park doesn't have 3-foot sidewalks. But even I didn't expect him to be this much of a steamroller.
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    ...maybe it's just me, but...maybe yes? I have no idea what this is supposed to mean .
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    Edit because can't delete [I responded to the comment before reading the responses already there. No need to pile on.]
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    Hmmph
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    Little extension toward the east end of the trail in Mason Park. North bank.
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    My only issue is that it's still very awkward to get to. Any chance of a connection to the Brays Bayou trail? Or a better connection to the red line?
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    A 10-foot sidewalk isn't even particularly wide, especially if it is where bicycles are expected to go. The sidewalks on Main Street downtown are generally 16-20 feet and they still feel narrow in places.
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    I did something similar with my students back in the fall. For an almost-free field trip, it was pretty awesome. Looking forward to doing it again next year, if public education still exists.
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    Try leaning your bike over. That's how I get sensor gates to open.
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    That's for a room in a shared apartment, though, isn't it?
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    Isn't the topic at hand the fact that the mayor is inserting himself into TIRZ plans to throw out a planned sidewalk improvement?
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    So this is gunna be a pretty neat building, eh fellas?
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    It's pretty explicitly not for people like me, but if it's built right, it could be 50 years from now. Unfortunately that's generally how new construction goes. Hopefully the Concept Neighborhood stuff is a little more accessible, but it'd be silly to expect anything in River Oaks to be for anybody but the 1%. The benefits are still universal, though. When the most agressively densifying mixed-use developments are concentrated in wealthy areas, the downsides of gentrification elsewhere are mitigated. All that said, getting rid of minimum parking requirements, minimum setback / maximum lot coverage requirements, etc. would go a long way toward making it easier to build smaller, lower-tab suites. Likewise, we could work making it easier to open food stalls in parks. Mexico City has an amazing park food culture that feels like something we could emulate in places like Discovery Green, Hermann Park, Buffalo Bayou / Eleanor Tinsley Park, Emancipation Park, Elizabeth Baldwin Park, and even Autry Park.
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    Just so we're clear: we're talking about two already-ultra-massive highways that cut right through city centers. And we'll probably have the same conversation 30 years after they're done with these projects.
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    Austin has the highest multifamily construction pace in the country by quite a wide margin. Absolutely insane that they're widening the moat between downtown and the east side, but that's TXDoT for you.
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    One of my absolute favorite examples of (basically) brutalism. Really beautiful up close.
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    They're getting creative, but the impetus for opposition is obviously concerns about having too many formerly homeless people around.
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    I...well I agree.
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    Say it with me: Allen's freakin Landing. Most indefensible missing link
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    Getting closer. This is a great project, but I would love to see more of the promenade (and that last mixed-traffic bit of Bastrop between Bell and Leeland) activated. The part between McKinney and Polk would be a great place for low-rent stalls (think European Christmas market, or even the Navigation esplanade), the east side of the Leeland-Bell stretch of Bastrop deserves a new build, and the building at the corner of Bell and Hutchins would be worth transforming, I think. Iirc, there is already something planned for the awkwardly trapezoidal lot between this and Emancipation.
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    Those poor Southamptonites. Such a downtrodden bunch.
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