deb bonario-martin

Let's hope GNMD gets around to alerting super neighborhood northline and holding stakeholder meetings. Watching drama unfold over Houston Ave improvements tells me this  would be a good idea. That and Northtown Civic Association of Greater Northline members on the planning committee over 5 years now have very little communication from these folks who primarily concern themselves with Greater Northside. 

Thank you I will stop by again soon to see if there's anything else about Northline.

On 3/10/2023 at 8:15 AM, samagon said:

"I think this is not a very good take.

look at it from the perspective of someone living in poverty who is working more than 1 job to pay rent, or afford food for their kid. maybe they have time to see an article on this, or hear about it on the news? but who are they going to engage? 

I have to believe that every one of the people who saw way back when that this was going to be a thing wanted to be a part of the process, but due to financial constraints, being a responsible parent, or other things that life throws at you when you are living paycheck to paycheck (as many of the affected people do), that doesn't leave you a lot of time for activism."

 

Spot on. 

37 of Houston's 88 designated super neighborhood groups are defunct, with only about half of the 51 with active bylaws participating- so a couple dozen of Htown's best-informed and represented zip codes in the room where it happens. Our Northtown/Northline Civic Assoc began rebuilding SN#45 Northline after Harvey- a territory with 60k resident stakeholders in 4 zip codes where civic clubs are relics of the past, failing to materialize and/or are infeasible. Metro's #96 Route skips the only park in our parks desert (Northline Park) and despite being prioritized for greenspace in HPARD's 2015 report, District H is currently siphoning off Northline Park to luxury developers at Parker Rd

Our area in Segment #1 (Northtown Plaza) remains a food, medical, park, art, resource desert but we're seeing more new small condo developments touting HOAs around the many low-income apartments and trailer parks. We've petitioned the Dept of neighborhood to add in resident groups from apartments and trailer communities but will see what happens. A digital desert without sidewalks, bus covers, benches or shelters- looks like I-45 at Tidwell isn't even scheduled for a BRT station.

Northline!