Ross
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I flew from Sugar Land to IAH on Metro Airlines a number of times in the early 80's. They flew a Twin Otter, and if you connected to Eastern, the flight was essentially free. An added bonus was the free parking at the Sugar Land airport.
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What is your ideal transit plan for Houston?
Ross replied to Slick Vik's topic in Traffic and Transportation
There's buses, what else do you need? Certainly not any more of those idiotic light rail lines that make getting around difficult. Face it Vik, this isn't a rail kind of town. We do just fine with what we have now. -
The people complaining about renters East of Main own properties next door to those occupied by renters. The apartments are owned by some faceless, presumably evil, corporation that is in business to rent.
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Because it has strict land use controls and zoning. There are those, I consider them borderline insane, who think every facet of land use has to be controlled, lest property owners get the idea they should have input into their own destiny.
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Greenpeace entered and occupied ExxonMobil's head office in Dallas a few years back. i Seem to recall they also hung a banner on the building downtown, but I could be wrong.
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I lived in that area 1979-1981. In an apartment at the corner of Stella Link and Underwood. That's all gone now.
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TGM isn't lying. Those are all reasons we moved from Midtown to Timbergrove. After 5 years, we just got tired of calling HPD or the Constables every couple of days.
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No, the rules in Portland specifically discouraged building near Portland, since that was outside the urban growth boundaries that are a uniquely horrific piece of Oregon law, and require lot sizes of 40 acres or more. How would you like to have to replace your fire damaged single family home with an apartment building? Who says the Portland lifestyle is desirable? Not me. I think it's awful. I see nothing wrong with the Gulfton area. It provides affordable housing to people who need it.
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So what, we can't wish for something better than the piece of crap we have now? Having nothing would be an improvement. At least it wouldn't waste taxpayer money if it didn't exist. I'm curious as to what makes your views on architecture more valid than those of the individual property owners. Why should you get to tell your neighbor how their house should appear, absent mutually agreed deed restrictions?
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The planning Commission guy is unmitigated jerk. He acts like he never made a mistake. For a member of a public commission to make a statement like "never do business with you" is outrageous in this context.
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Looks like a high end ham radio setup. Where is it? Those antennas are directional, and the one on the middle of the tower doesn't look like it rotates.
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Charles Milby Mansion At 3015 Old Galveston Rd.
Ross replied to sootycat's topic in Historic Houston
I hate to be Mr. Negative, but I think there's some untrue items about J P Morgan in the posts above. I don't think JP Morgan financed the Ship Channel. It was financed by a group of banks that became Texas Commerce Bancshares, one of the local biggies that failed in the 80's. Indianola was founded in 1846, and became an important port, but given that Charles Milby was born in Indianola in 1852, I doubt he had much influence there before the town was nearly destroyed in 1875, given he moved to Harrisburg in 1872. Morgan's Point was named after the Morgan family that owned 1500 acres there. Morgan City, Louisiana was named after Charles Morgan, a transportation magnate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Morgan_%28businessman%29 -
Portland, as far as I can tell from the descriptions I've read, and the summaries of development policies, looks like a horrifically bad place to live, unless you think having government telling how to live your life is a good idea. Portland wrote rules at one point that rezoned single family areas to multi-family, and were so strict that if your single family house burned down, you would have to replace it with a seven unit apartment building. Walkability is overrated, I'll keep driving, thank you. Links with some background on how Portland tried to destroy single family housing and Oregon's overly restrictive land use policies (Hey, Mr. Farmer, you can't build that new house on your farm, you don't make enough from farming to justify the destruction of our pastoral views) http://ti.org/vaupdate26.html http://www.ti.org/vaupdate62.html
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I personally don't think so. We replaced our water service lines 3 years ago when we replaced the in house piping (which happens to all galvanized pipe at some point), so that's not a worry, and I don't think there are that many failures anyway. We had to replace our sewer at the same time, which was $5,000, but the house is 60 years old, and the concrete sewer pipe had collapsed, which doesn't seem to be covered by the policy.
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I really doubt there are any "anchors" running out into the adjacent lots. Exxon has never owned those lots, as far as I can tell, and you don't get to use someone's property without paying for it.
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As I've said before, those cool looking buildings in the Middle East are a pain for tenants, as it's difficult and expensive to design usable floor plans in a building that's not squarish.
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I was watching episode 4 of the TV show Arrow, when this appeared:
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No, because to do it properly, the victim isn't hanged until death, just until almost dead, thus prolonging the entire ordeal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered
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Yes, because WalMart is inherently evil, and there is nothing that can change that other than total destruction of the company, with its stores demolished and the earth they sit on converted to mixed use development with "approved" retailers, chef driven restaurants that remain open regardless of economics, and cute little boutiques that will be subsidized to help them remain open, despite not carrying anything the general public wants to buy. Plus, senior management, their wives, children, grand children, and anyone they've ever spoken to, is to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, and their body parts strewn for the jackals to consume. (for the humor impaired, this is sarcasm. No hipsters were harmed during its writing)
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Once the employees have kids, the vast majority of them move to the suburbs where there's room to play, better schools, and better activities. Those of us who live in the City are the exception.
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The Kingwood annexation brought changes in the law that pretty much killed any future mass annexations.
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The City will not annex anything that has voters. Businesses, yes, houses, no. That way, the City gets lots of lovely taxes without having to listen to a bunch of whiny, demanding voters.
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I am offended by the waste of taxpayer money the HAHC represents, especially when applicants appeal to teh Planning Commission to reverse an egregiously stupid decision.
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Which is far better than laying out all the money up front for the work the city would have been required to do. And, really, is the City getting less in taxes than before the development? Besides, $150k in the City budget is less than what the Planning Commission wastes on historic district hearings.
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I would never believe that without written proof from HEB and WalMart. WalMart can outbid just about everybody, and they were hot to build an Inner Loop location. 380 or not, there's no chance HEB beats WalMart.
