samagon

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?

on my way back in to town after work, I took a gander north at Wayside (around 5:15), traffic seemed bad, not as bad as some other intersections, that doesn't mean it should be acceptable. Then again, traffic was pretty light today overall, I think a lot of people were skipping work or something. I'll have to keep doing my own traffic study. You mentioned in another post about the traffic study being paid for by someone else. As I understand it (and I may be wrong) the developer may have to pay, but the groups that do the studies are supposed to be impartial, regardless of where the money comes from. I'd bet there aren't a lot of companies that do traffic studies, and they would get a bad reputation if they weren't impartial.

I have to remember that 99% of the time I'm traveling against the flow of traffic, I work out at 45 and the BW. However, on the odd day that I go to home depot, or best buy after I go home and change (so it puts me going in the same direction as most travelers). Traffic at the outbound feeder and Wayside isn't bad at all, I never have to sit more than 3 deep in line at that light (and it's quicker to stay on the feeder than get on the freeway imo, and freeway peak traffic shouldn't be impacted by a Walmart anyway).

they have Tinkerbell too!

Just out of curiosity, why?

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means. Of course you do, you know everything.

yesterday and today were probably caused by space heaters catching a rug, or something else on fire.

this can't be the same person that gets angry when he is asked to cite references, is it?