West Alabama/South Shepherd and Houston's unzoned greatness

[jfre81]

This was about 3pm on May 30, more recent than the last one and it's much warmer outside. That's not why this is short - I forgot the sunscreen and I didn't want a sunburn. I can deal with the heat. The daytime weather here has been excellent the last few months.

This was totally on a whim as I just happened to be in the area with the camera with some time to kill, but it turns out this spot well demonstrates how Houston gets by without conventional zoning laws.

This is the intersection of Kipling and Huldy, just east of S. Shepherd and north of W. Alabama.

Businesses and old four-plexes sharing blocks.

People living here don't have it all bad - they don't have to drive to the grocery store if they don't want to. There's a Randall's to the right (north) of Harold St. as seen here. And it actually doesn't suck like most Randall's.

Quiet residential streets just off one of the busiest Inner Loop thoroughfares.

Let's take a walk down Shepherd...

And then we come up on Sul Ross where it can get hard to tell homes from businesses. I surmise some could serve as both. Mixed use indeed.

Then it goes to small apartment complexes before going to...

All of this is on the same block of Sul Ross.

Heading back towards Alabama again...

And back toward Shepherd...

It's interesting that someone would open a Chicken 'N' Eggroll restaurant, keep it open for only seven days, then close it. The owner could have just opened a stand at the rodeo or something. At least it makes for more parking.

Well, my battery died out and I decided to get in the shade...until next time...

[OkieEric]

Thanks for some great pics around my 'hood...that area behind Crome definitely has an interesting mix to it. One of the residents of that second fourplex called to have my car towed a few months back

[HtownWxBoy]

Great pics... that's my old neighborhood... lived right across the street from the West Alabama Ice house a few years ago... good times.