- Developer Upset City Didn’t Select His High Bid for 10.5-Acre Lot Next to Allen Parkway Village [Culturemap]
- Police Department Working on ‘Creative Ways’ To Get Motorists To Stop at Flewellen Oaks Ln. and South Fry Rd. Stop Sign in Fulshear [Houston Chronicle]
- Brokerage Firm Headlined by Cowboys’ Emmitt Smith Expands to Houston [Houston Chronicle]
- Age-Restricted Bonterra Neighborhood in Woodforest Has 9 of 700 Homes Already Built [Houston Chronicle]
- A Hawthorne St. Bungalow with a Small Addition by Logan and Johnson Architecture [Culturemap]
- Neighbors Want Shuttered CES Environmental Facility on Griggs Rd. Cleaned Up [abc13; previously on Swamplot]
- A Tour of Copenhagen’s new Bike Skyway, the ‘Cycle Snake‘ [Wired]
Photo of BBVA Compass Stadium: Russell Hancock via Swamplot Flickr Pool
The CES Environmental fight is what NIMBYism should be all about: raising hell over real, genuine, environmental and safety problems. Most NIMBY fights in the City are like that. They don’t usually hit the news repeatedly and get as much debate as the Ashby’s and San Felipe’s, but remember this the next time you rail against NIMBYs.
Another East End picture that gets my hopes up for an East End story