Comments on: Ashby Highrise: The 9th Is the Time for Charm http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/ Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:40:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Matt http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-37318 Matt Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:03:59 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-37318 Living near Bisssonnet and Montrose myself I can assure you that the last thing we need is more traffic on Bissonnet and a bunch of people making left turns. Bissonnet is a two lane road and is packed all day long. ___________________________________________ If you look at Bissonnet it is three lanes the same as West Alabama. The city just hasn't drawn the little lines. People don't sit behind people making left hand turns. They go around them. Unless the person making the left hand turn hasn't moved over to the left. In which case they are greeted with a blast of horns. As for the horrible thought of all these people turning left, some may be turning right. And quite a few already turn left on Ashby but I won't say why. I still say the developers should donate the land to West U for a new sewage treatment plant. Living near Bisssonnet and Montrose myself I can assure you that the last thing we need is more traffic on Bissonnet and a bunch of people making left turns. Bissonnet is a two lane road and is packed all day long.
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If you look at Bissonnet it is three lanes the same as West Alabama. The city just hasn’t drawn the little lines. People don’t sit behind people making left hand turns. They go around them. Unless the person making the left hand turn hasn’t moved over to the left. In which case they are greeted with a blast of horns. As for the horrible thought of all these people turning left, some may be turning right. And quite a few already turn left on Ashby but I won’t say why.

I still say the developers should donate the land to West U for a new sewage treatment plant.

]]> By: Dreadlocks http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-37308 Dreadlocks Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:45:23 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-37308 The developers do not even have funding for the project! Geeze! Everyone here does not need to worry about this project. This whole thing is to prove a point that either two things will have to happen. 1. The city will have to approve the plans and release a permit. Or 2. The city will have to implement zoning. The developers do not even have funding for the project! Geeze!
Everyone here does not need to worry about this project. This whole thing is to prove a point that either two things will have to happen.
1. The city will have to approve the plans and release a permit.

Or

2. The city will have to implement zoning.

]]> By: Renee http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-37306 Renee Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:21:02 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-37306 Living near Bisssonnet and Montrose myself I can assure you that the last thing we need is more traffic on Bissonnet and a bunch of people making left turns. Bissonnet is a two lane road and is packed all day long. At least we can watch these guys lose lots of cash on the bone headed project. The recession won't last forever, but our neighborhood opinion of the project will. Living near Bisssonnet and Montrose myself I can assure you that the last thing we need is more traffic on Bissonnet and a bunch of people making left turns. Bissonnet is a two lane road and is packed all day long. At least we can watch these guys lose lots of cash on the bone headed project. The recession won’t last forever, but our neighborhood opinion of the project will.

]]> By: John http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-29525 John Thu, 28 May 2009 04:39:39 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-29525 Emma, Those signs and bumper stickers ARE tacky and long ago outlived their usefulness. We all got the NIMBY message a long time ago. Really. Truly. Emma,

Those signs and bumper stickers ARE tacky and long ago outlived their usefulness. We all got the NIMBY message a long time ago. Really. Truly.

]]> By: Emma http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-29523 Emma Thu, 28 May 2009 04:20:40 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-29523 Jackson - If you think those little 2 foot tall yellow signs make the neighborhood look tacky, just imagine how tacky a 20-something story highrise will look! You'll have plenty of time to check it out while you sit in traffic on Bissonnet waiting for all those high rise residents to make left hand turns. Jackson - If you think those little 2 foot tall yellow signs make the neighborhood look tacky, just imagine how tacky a 20-something story highrise will look! You’ll have plenty of time to check it out while you sit in traffic on Bissonnet waiting for all those high rise residents to make left hand turns.

]]> By: lildebbi http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-23980 lildebbi Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:29:24 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-23980 Jackson - Gah, beaten to the punch! That gentleman did a great job with his Halloween costume, but he shouldn't have written "Ashby Highrise" on his forehead/rooftop deck -- too obvious. Jackson - Gah, beaten to the punch! That gentleman did a great job with his Halloween costume, but he shouldn’t have written “Ashby Highrise” on his forehead/rooftop deck — too obvious.

]]> By: karen http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-23978 karen Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:38:09 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-23978 Hey, John, great idea about having to pay for parking - I know that apt. dwellers in NYC usually have to pay rent for their parking space too. Last time I talked to someone about that it was ~$300/month, and that was 20 years ago. Or how about what Rice just decided to offer the residents of their new housing on Shakespeare? Don't bring a car and they get a FREE BIKE! Perhaps residents of a high rise on Ashby should not be permitted to own or park a car in the area, only bicycles. Then maybe the neighborhood could get behind the "green-ness" of the project and also solve the global warming crisis at the same time. Hey, John, great idea about having to pay for parking - I know that apt. dwellers in NYC usually have to pay rent for their parking space too. Last time I talked to someone about that it was ~$300/month, and that was 20 years ago.

Or how about what Rice just decided to offer the residents of their new housing on Shakespeare? Don’t bring a car and they get a FREE BIKE!

Perhaps residents of a high rise on Ashby should not be permitted to own or park a car in the area, only bicycles. Then maybe the neighborhood could get behind the “green-ness” of the project and also solve the global warming crisis at the same time.

]]> By: John http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-23932 John Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:29:05 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-23932 So, nobody wants zoning, except when they do. As another John pointed out, if you want zoning, vote for it, don't support zoning for the most politically connected neighborhoods but not for anybody else. Here's what I would love to see for projects like this: limited parking, and you pay for it. This project is in an inner-city location well served by public transit. Make the parking extra, and you might find it appeals to people who don't need it (& won't add to traffic). So, nobody wants zoning, except when they do. As another John pointed out, if you want zoning, vote for it, don’t support zoning for the most politically connected neighborhoods but not for anybody else.

Here’s what I would love to see for projects like this: limited parking, and you pay for it. This project is in an inner-city location well served by public transit. Make the parking extra, and you might find it appeals to people who don’t need it (& won’t add to traffic).

]]> By: Jackson http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-23931 Jackson Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:31:18 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-23931 Forgot to post the <a HREF="http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1729/img7736.jpg" rel="nofollow">link.</a> Forgot to post the link.

]]> By: Jackson http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-23930 Jackson Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:30:48 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-23930 Believe it or not, I saw somebody dressed as the Ashby Highrise in Montrose last Halloween! Believe it or not, I saw somebody dressed as the Ashby Highrise in Montrose last Halloween!

]]> By: lildebbi http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-23920 lildebbi Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:25:16 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-23920 With regards to Jackson's comment on the TOWER OF TRAFFIC being equated to War, crime, poverty, disease, I have thought for a while now that the yellow, fanged Ashby Highrise tower wreaking destruction on the little houses below would be a fab group Halloween costume. Any especially tall Swamplot readers want to volunteer to be the tower? I will gladly be a terrorized bungalow. With regards to Jackson’s comment on the TOWER OF TRAFFIC being equated to War, crime, poverty, disease, I have thought for a while now that the yellow, fanged Ashby Highrise tower wreaking destruction on the little houses below would be a fab group Halloween costume. Any especially tall Swamplot readers want to volunteer to be the tower? I will gladly be a terrorized bungalow.

]]> By: Matt http://swamplot.com/ashby-highrise-the-9th-is-the-time-for-charm/2009-03-27/#comment-23913 Matt Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:32:20 +0000 http://swamplot.com/?p=7758#comment-23913 From matt: People are so naive. Talk to some of the mayoral candidates……particularly Annise Parker. I think you’d be shocked at the claims she’s making. I have a twin. How nice. I don't talk to Annise Parker. But nothing she claims would shock me. What does shock me is the number of people who do talk to her and believe anything she says. I also don't talk to Peter Brown. Or anyone who hitched their wagon to this dead horse which hopefully will be given a proper funeral with the issuance of the permits. As for Bill White, no doubt this will come back to haunt him if and when he runs for public office again. The will of the voters does matter. As does the City Charter. No zoning means just that. No zoning. From matt:
People are so naive. Talk to some of the mayoral candidates……particularly Annise Parker. I think you’d be shocked at the claims she’s making.

I have a twin. How nice. I don’t talk to Annise Parker. But nothing she claims would shock me. What does shock me is the number of people who do talk to her and believe anything she says. I also don’t talk to Peter Brown. Or anyone who hitched their wagon to this dead horse which hopefully will be given a proper funeral with the issuance of the permits.

As for Bill White, no doubt this will come back to haunt him if and when he runs for public office again. The will of the voters does matter. As does the City Charter.

No zoning means just that. No zoning.

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