samagon

how tall can one make a pie? interestingly there are multiple resources online for different types of pie, but they are usually for the largest pie, not for the tallest. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/pie.html http://www.foodmall.org/entry/the-largest-pumpkin-pie-in-the-world/ http://www.recipesource.com/desserts/pies/12/rec1267.html I guess the arena is wide open for going tallest!

I think what we have is a misunderstanding. No, I'm saying it is Ok to do this based on historical precedence. What is your argument that it shouldn't? Oh yeah, because you think the people who will live near it won't want it, and you don't think it fits. No, the mistake is to stop someone from building somewhere that someone doesn't like. That is what you are saying you want. You should get away from using descriptive adjectives that are based on opinion, as there is no legal reason for your opinion to be a reason to not build something like this. There we go. Now, I'm afraid it is you that doesn't get it, the word appropriate only fits within your historic district. It is your fault (as a proponent of the historic district) for not making the area of inclusion within the historic district larger. I'm sure with all of the fans of it, you would have had no problem getting it passed on a larger scale, but it really is too bad that you didn't. As a result of your failure, this is not within the jurisdiction of any group that can say whether or not it is appropriate based only on opinion. Again, there you go with opinion, which is your own, and really gives you nothing. Other than the fact that you are saying that you don't like it, I don't get your point. See all that this whole response was from you was you saying, I don't like it. You could have saved yourself a lot of typing (and me) by just saying that, here, let me help you: I could have responded with, it doesn't matter. Honestly, you should start to get used to this being there. they have their permits, they are going to build already in the process of building. However, please note that unlike you, I do not revel in the fact that you will be unhappy to live in your house because of this structure which will tarnish your stay in the heights forever. I do not wish for a developer to put up a structure like this near you, just to spite you.

Dbags are aholes, just more-so. From the urban dictionary: Dbag: Someone who has surpassed the levels of jerk and asshole. you'll usually see them wearing Affliction, Ed Hardy, or Tapout t-shirts. Generally, in high numbers they make a place less desirable to be, unless you are a dbag yourself. I think it's safe to assume a dbag would never homebrew beer. regardless, good beer joints are hard to find. and of the ones that are out there, it's nice to toss in some variet, I'm looking forward to it, and will go at least once.

yes, obviously, by writing neighborhood you didn't mean the actual word, neighborhood and the definition it carries. What you meant by saying neighborhood was actually, subdivision, block, or 3 house radius from the site. I can see how from a certain point of view, they could be said to stick out like a sore thumb, I imagine for someone who hasn't grown up around a place like the Heights, or even Houston itself (in addition to the 2 examples I referenced in my post, there are numerous other accounts of this happening all over Houston) that this would stick out. but you know what? To a lifelong Houstonian, that's just Houston. It is what makes Houston so unique, regardless of the neighborhood. I'm not trying to say that a person who didn't grow up doesn't understand, or that their opinion doesn't count as much, but it is a reason why it looks out of place to someone like you who probably isn't a native Houstonian, or never ventured inside the loop prior to buying your Cute little Bungalow in the Heights. There are already enough of these in the Heights to make it part of the current character. That isn't a reasonable conclusion at all. The price you pay for living in a desirable area is that EVERYONE wants to live there, so if they want to live in Heights, who cares how much room there is available in midtown, or east end? I mean hell, Houston itself is a desirable place to live, but there's lots of room in El Paso for them, we don't need to build out Houston any more. As a side note, I like how you include south of I-10 (Yale/Koehler) as part of the 'heights neighborhood' but not 20th and Heights boulevard. You're a real piece of work. :facepalm:

meaningful discussion is what drives interaction. meaningful discussion is usually backed up by facts. yes, it is a fact that this is going to be next to a single family home. What do you know about that home? Is it lived in by the owner? Rental? Does the owner even care? Is the owner maybe looking past the building process at what nice retail will be literally next door to him? then there's examples of other locations in town with even taller buildings next to single family homes (or directly across the street from). go to google maps... 2121 Kirby Drive, that's a really tall condo building right across the street from multiple single family houses. Inwood Manor at 3711 San Felipe Street. Nothing but single family homes surrounding that condo building, backyards butting up to condo. I think you should go canvas those neighborhoods and get written responses from the owners of the single family houses that are next door to those condos to see how they feel about them, or you could just do what you always do and make something up. chances of s3mh even responding to this post? I put it around 5%.

We may be on to something, can someone write up a quick business plan for manufactured skyscrapers? edit: was going to go with Trailer Skyscrapers, but that just sounds like a tornado waiting to happen, besides, doesn't manufactured sound more dignified?

There is certainly a lot of potential for commercial along Leeland to the west of Cullen, but there's Oak Farms Dairy that I see throwing a big wrench with a lot of 18 wheeler traffic at all hours of the day. There's a lot of empty lots, and vacant buildings along Leeland though for sure. Down on Telephone there isn't as much vacant, with convenience stores, bus terminals, and laundromats, but there are already some gems mixed in. I think most of us in the area are hoping for Kroger to step their game up and make Combat Kroger less dirty, and more updated.

their is a third option. You can positively effect more lives for less money abroad. My friend's father runs a missionary in some African nation (I never remember), and for the 3000 dollars he raises with each fundraiser it is amazing how far that goes in a different country, buildings, clothes, food, teachers, etc. The amount of red tape one has to navigate in the USA is immense (reference that church from where ever that didn't know they had to get a permit to distribute food). Anyway, so yeah, they can positively affect more peoples lives by going somewhere else to end hunger. It sucks, cause we do have our own problems here at home, but ultimately, it's their money and they would rather have their money affect as many people as possible.

IMO, the development has been happening slowly over the past few years. think back to when MMP was called Enron field (maybe even a few years before that), what was there on the other side of 59? a bunch of busted warehouses and Booker T's wrestling academy? Today east to west between Velasco and and 59, north to south between 45 and Texas you can't go 50 yards without seeing townhomes of varying quality. Not to mention those condos near McKinny, the apartments at the ballpark, or whatever they're called. there's Lucky's, Warehouse Live, and just recently a Little Woodrows. and there are other places that are diving deeper into the east end than that, the moon tower. The biggest thing though, used to when I heard people talking about the east end, it was always in tones of, wow, be careful, you may as well be going to Juarez, you are going to die. Now though, people are asking questions about it, maybe it's cause I'm living here now, and I'm hearing more of the good that people are talking about the area, but I see people noticing it more. Granted that comes with the good and bad, I imagine it's only a matter of time before I have to worry about irresponsible historic preservation in my neighborhood.

This is what I was thinking, but couldn't verify. She certainly isn't much loved by the soccer fans for sure.

Well, if congressional whim was the factor that held back progress we'd be nowhere fast.

actually, the bus picks up and drops off from the tacqueria parking lot. the service station seems to just be where they service the buses (wash, etc), and I guess purchase tickets.

heh, the arms race for skyscraper lighting has begun! hopefully they throw some surface lighting in there too.

Anyone else go to the groundbreaking? I've never seen SJL booed like that. I guess being a politician you get used to that, but there is some serious hate towards her.

It's funny, i lived here in Broadmoor for 6 months before I realized that I could stay on the feeder for 45 south after Cullen.

I wonder as well. Personally, if it were me building a walmart supercenter, I'd go with the wayside location, it's closer to other retail, and has easier access to and from the freeway. Or at least the access isn't as confusing.

I assume you're talking about a light on the feeder being that close to wayside. I wouldn't put it past our city to put stoplights anywhere they may or may not make sense just because they think it's a good idea.

as this is less than 1/4 mile from my house, I hope it becomes something I will enjoy and use!

I'm sure s3mh either doesn't appreciate, or believes your story to be revisionist history, but I like it, and am looking forward to the next installment!

drizzle is drizzling. freezing is not freezing the drizzling.

it's a rendering of the stadium and says something like, new soccer stadium coming to the east end. or something like that. was excited to see it, oh, and it's on the right side of the freeway (east).

saw a cool billboard on 59 traveling north between 45 and i10!

The most interesting thing to me about s3mh bringing up zoning, how does s3mh know how zoning would be enforced (assuming a referendum was created and passed)? Hell, that corridor that s3mh swears is residential, could be zoned as commercial and have a height capability of 10 stories, then what? obviously, s3mh has some grand plan that everything must adhere to, unfortunately, when s3mh says the word 'we' it really means 'I' and there is no basis on anything except that is what s3mh sees as being best based on a very clearly misaligned view of the city. the reality is, that IF zoning were to somehow ever be voted into law, it would take YEARS, even possibly DECADES, for areas to be sorted out and zoned appropriately. And then after that happened, there would be all sorts of re-zoning hearings. edit: here's an interesting chron article. http://www.chron.com...fy/5804649.html there are numerous other articles related to Houston's lack of zoning, none are promoting the introduction of zoning in Houston. in short, s3mh, you should really do some self education on zoning. here's a nice old article from the NYT from 1986 regarding zoning and Houston... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEFDB103FF934A2575BC0A960948260

Saying there is more support doesn't make more support actually vaporize out of thin air. I apologize if there actually is more support though, 4 people instead of 3 is huge for you guys, that is a 33% increase in support! Do you even know when the last times zoning came up for referendum were? Do you even know what areas of Houston were 'hot' when zoning was being considered? By the rest of your response I'm not sure you really understand what a referendum is. Maybe you should go and review what a referendum is, and then review why zoning would require a referendum.

are they paying for the entire 6 blocks of promenade, or just the garden stuff?