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Red, pick a long holiday weekend, say Thanksgiving. I bet you could strip your siding, insulate, and reside with Hardiplank before the City figured out what was going on. What's the after the fact penalty?

The big Lexus sedan is RWD, and has a V8. That would be an awesome police car!

The 1953 Google Earth images show a runway that's about 1700 feet long, a hangar, and a few airplanes.

The woman also learned that if you are doing something to annoy off the police, they will arrest you instead of citing you for such egregious offenses as "walking in the street when a sidewalk is available". If she had been on the sidewalk, the police would have had to think harder about which bogus charge to use.

There's no way I would use foam insulation here. given our humidity levels and lack of extreme cold. I don't want to have to depend on air conditioning and extra dehumidification to rid the house of excess moisture. It's also a pain to do any electrical repair when you have foam in the walls. When we reside and reinsulate, I plan to use one of the better house wraps, and as much fiberglass batt as will fit in a space defined by 2x4's.

Try Amica. We switched to them after another company dropped us, and we spent a couple of years in the last resort pool.

Scare, the people we bought our house from in Timbergrove had cellulose blown in in the mid 90's. The took off the top row of siding (cedar shakes) and filled the cavities. You could probably do that with fiberglass without a historic morons commission permit. We will have to replace our siding fairly soon. at that point, we will remove all of the insulation, OK it will fall out, then have an electrician replace th etwo wire electrical with grounded, and put in fiberglass batts. Then, new tyvek, nailers, and new cedar. I can't wait to see how much damage the AC drain has done over the years...

1900 N Loop West. My Mom worked in that building for a few years. It was a pretty mediocre building, and it suffered some bad damage in IKE. The mechanicals were pretty bad - AC never worked right, elevators were slow, etc. Be nce to get it back on the tax rolls at the full value.

Many of those lots were already 4000 sq ft or less - that area was never very upscale, and had small houses on small lots.

77008 includes most of Timbergrove as well, where houses are dropping like flies. Another one was torn down on Nashua today. I think that's the 8th City Cottage teardown in a year.

S3MH, how about if I want to live in the Heights, but don't like bungalow architecture? Why shouldn't I be able to tear down the ugly bungalow, and build something pleasing to me? Like the two houses North of 1643 Arlington. Those are great houses, and I'm sure the owners are very happy with them. And really, as long as the owners are happy, why would you care what the houses look like?

More parks? Where are you going to get the land for more parks? And, buses ARE the superior transit option. I've found them far more useful than rail.

It is trivially easy to add buses and routes as needs change. Rail doesnt' have that same flexibility. Buses can run on smaller streets, or be rerouted if necessary. rail is stuck with a single path. Populations move. Midtown was dead for 30+ years, and there's nothing to stop that from happening again. That applies to any population center in town.

There's a quote above that the number of buses has dropped from 1400 to 1200. There have been several articles in the media about protests by people who live on bus routes that Metro proposes to terminate. Those routes tend to be in places like Acres Homes, where the residents are more likely to rely on public transport, and there is no intent of building rail. Metro isnt' all about helping the professionals take the cool train to work. It's far more important, in my mind, to help the folks whose circumstances make it difficult for them to own cars.

What happens when you move to a part of town that isn't served by rail, but has less bus service because the rail sucked all the money out of the budget? And, rail is inflexible - it cna't be moved to accomodate changes in population.

How about Metro stops wasting money on utterly stuipid rail projects, and starts providing better bus service to the people who really depend on transit to get around.

The old alignment is clearly visible in Google Earth on the oldest aerials

Read your deed restrictions as well. You may not be able to rent to more than one family.

I always wondered who had signed a 20 year contract at $200 per month.

I don't think the Comanches were this far South and East.

Yes, it is.

Are you saying that police ought to beat the daylights out of any thug they see? Can you point me to the statute that allows that? After the car hit Holley, he hit the ground nad put his hands behind his head. Proper police procedure would have been to have one or more officers cover him while another handcuffed him.

Here's the block book map http://books.tax.hctx.net/v010/002435.JPG It looks like the addition was consumed by the intersection of 59 and 610. Ryon is to the South and West of this.

There's nothing stopping you from walking now.

I htink the HCAD build date may be wrong. The first mention I can find for the house is in 1968, when Hill & White, Inc received a Deed of Trust from John and Pauline Mclaggan and gave them a Warranty Deed. There are a number of other transactions in Walnut Bend with Hill & White, so I suspect they might have been builders. I did not see any Butlers as owners, it' s pretty easy to get properties mixed up if you don't make sure you have the correct lot and block. As for a picture, good luck with that.I would love to have a picture of my house in the 50's, but haven't found one.