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or at least cover the lot with car port covers that are made of solar panels.

for a long time we had people who represented the Houston area on a national level that fought actively against us (Houston) getting any access to any transit dollars, which is precisely why the university corridor isn't already a built out rail line, and instead is being redeveloped as a BRT.

yes, that's correct. I guess, I was just wondering, because it just says "Potential Detention". will it actually be an overflow/detention area, and will that area be given a similar treatment as Arthur Storey Park, or even the unnamed detention pond at 610/Braeswood intersection. I'm guessing they'd say that's out of their scope of work, and it will depend upon the corps of engineers to do something?

yes, and for anyone who knows about them, picking up bags after returning from somewhere in E, D, or C terminal, and then making your way over to A, or B terminal is super simple stuff, and oh so much better than having to mingle with the current traffic situation, or wait in a super long line for the shuttle to your car. just make your way over to A, call your parking lot and they will be there shortly to get shuttle you back to your car.

seeing this land without homes on it (other than doing the obvious things) shows some interesting features. the slope of the land cascading towards the bayou is very obvious when you view it from a south to north orientation. there's a lot of land there, and presumably they'll make it a retention basin?

there's a JW Marriott right across the street from the AC Hotel, which is (not as expensive) a Marriott property, the same as the JW. it's like that time there were 3 Starbucks on the same intersection. W Hotel is a Marriott brand. so really, what we're considering is might there be 3 Marriott brands in close proximity to each other?

no, say it ain't so! this is so exquisitely dystopian Houston!

yep, big show tonight with Afrojack.

yikes, if we start making the people in the suburbs pay their actual share of cost, no one would be able to afford to live in the suburbs.

some people would stick the pencil in and twist, I had a more devil may care approach and would hold the pencil and spin the cassette around.

congrats! that's awesome!

you guys have it all backwards. freeways are the blight that need to be hidden (along with the noise pollution). I just wish the other pollution (rubber, and particulate) could be so easily stopped with a wall. people that live near a freeway have to suffer with the freeway any time they are home. you only have to suffer looking at their homes when you are a traveler on that freeway.

is there any news on what the resulting island will be called? maybe there won't be a name and it'll just be called "The Island"?

any time you can cite something as a precedent, it makes it easier for the next group of people to do the same thing. and maybe it's not a mega-rich group of people who would be able to do it next time. even if that doesn't happen and this is the only instance, it still has an effect, maybe it's less than .01% of the overall property tax uplift for the city, but the uplift of property taxes might afford better training for a number of police officers, or any number of potholes being filled. both of which are desperately needed.

this is a big factor for me. another, bigger factor for me, I am a resident of this city. the ramifications of this will reverberate throughout all of Houston. we already have enough quazi zoning, and we don't need more regulations pushing even more zoning like rules on our city, specifically, we need more density, not less. sure, it may suck to see a Zone 'D Erotica next to the Galleria (RIP), but the future needs to be more cohesive, interwoven, and density needs to be a part of that future. so no, I don't live in the immediate area, nor do I have money invested in this project, but I live in the city, and care how the future of our city develops, and if such a small contingent of people had been able to succeed, they would have shifted the future of the entire city scape thanks to their selfish desires. I'm glad they lost, and I wish they would have lost sooner. and even if you don't care about that, on a impact per acre towards city taxes, a big residential tower is going to have a much higher valuation, and thus tax per acre than those single family homes in the area, which means, if there's property taxes collected from more dense places, that means more potholes filled, all of our infrastructure able to be fixed much quicker, and maybe even before it fails. maybe they can hire more police officers to help keep us safer. better schools. the list goes on. this is a win for whole city.

there's the East End Management District, which their coverage starts where EaDo ends, as a western border. that about the only officially named area with East End in the name. my mom (and probably anyone who grew up in Houston before freeways defined borders), who grew up on Truett and Dismuke, went to Austin HS, she'd probably define EE as everything east of the westbelt railroad. (which is pretty much where the EEMD starts) myself, before I moved here, I thought of anything east of 59 as the east end (which affirms @JClark54), now that I've lived here for 15 years (mostly at Telephone and Broadmoor), I'd probably use that same coloquial border she does. there's definitely a clear difference at that point. west of that (excluding the newer townhomes) it's mostly warehouses/industrial, and not high quality homes. east of that, there's less warehouses, and more homes, and of higher quality. at least, of the older stock. where you are seeing the start of the east end, basically, at wayside, I would say is smack dab in the middle of the east end. I bet if you canvassed 100 people, you'd probably get about 10-20 different responses for where the east end historically, and currently would have begun. to the greater point, I'd think that most people who live with freeways, and probably don't live here, or have the influence of others who might have defined things before freeways, anything north of Gulf Freeway, east of 59, and south of Buffalo Bayou is Houston East End. of course, with all the stuff happening north of Buffalo Bayou, I'd guess in 50 years the East End may include anything south of I-10 too. the same as the border of The Heights continues to grow over the years.

this is true, the only traffic that is created on that section of loop is around the construction on 288. yeah, but if you look at the image of the construction area, the Gulf Freeway/610 interchange isn't highlighted as being included. maybe they just didn't highlight things correctly, but it doesn't look like that's part of the vision for now.

laugh and sad emoji reaction at the same time. I suspect this is designed to dovetail with the spur 5 build.

speaking of favorite places that are losing their land... I've chatted briefly with the owner of Huynh, and asked what they plan on doing, I know they plan on keeping on, we just never got to that part of the conversation before he had to move on to another table.

you first have to realize that most of the stops on the proposed BRT correspond to existing bus routes, and very likely, those stops are the ones that are not as negotiable as other stops. in the flyover video they show the stations right on the intersections, but it also says on that video that the locations are subject to change. if I were to guess, I'd guess that the Mandell station might end up in the middle of the block between Dunlavy and Mandell, the Shepherd station will end up on the West side of Shepherd, and the Montrose station will stay on the West side to keep it as safe as possible for the students of the university. since both Shepherd and Montrose have existing bus routes, I am not sure those stops will be subject to change.

yep, I've lived/worked/played in and around the downtown/midtown area for 15 years now, and it looks worse than ever. maybe I'm just paying more attention to it in my older age? dunno. the camps that used to be under various freeways are gone now, so yeah, that might also be a contributing factor.

perhaps all of Houston has fewer homeless, but maybe they have congregated in the area around downtown and midtown, which is where I seem to see a lot of them.

I don't know about Fannin, but San Jacinto I can speak to. when I was training heavily for my half ironman, I would do a circuit that included a leg that went from Hermann park into downtown first on Caroline,then I would jog over to San Jacinto. San Jacinto specifically because the lights were timed, if I went 25mph I could catch green all the way from Alabama to Webster, which I think was only 2 lights, but still, it was nearly a mile of being able to push hard uninterrupted by stop lights, or stop signs. that was nearly 10 years ago now though, so the lights may be timed differently now. the Austin section of bike lane is nice for a leisurely ride. on the subject, I still don't understand why they didn't choose to use Caroline for the bike lane south of Alabama street, that would have been much safer than the current configuration bike lane, and actually I choose to take that over the current bike lane that runs parallel a few streets over.

a welcome improvement! now that I know this, yeah, he totally ate his shit.

nice. I'll send this over to my friend. he ate his poop as we crossed the rails here on our bicycles.