Houston, Texas real estate development, home buying, landscape, and design

6 Comments

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   From kjb434:

   I’d admit their plan isn’t perfect, but it attempts to correct a major problem in the area. I do notice a flaw now created by Galleria IV, but much of the rest of the plan is doable over time.

   April 13, 2009 at 3:30 pm
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   From jgbiggs:

   Wonderful, they have given all the short-cuts native Houstonians have known for years to the unwashed carpet bagging yankees. You have just made once was a pleasurable drive through “uptown” a living hell.

   hope you are happy.

   April 13, 2009 at 3:33 pm
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   From EMME:

   ROFLMAO jgbiggs. But you gotta love the yankee accent.

   April 13, 2009 at 4:13 pm
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   From Dean4523:

   Another TIRZ check for a high-end area that doesn’t need it. This is money that the city should use to help areas that are struggling, not to transform the deluxe into ultra-deluxe.

   April 14, 2009 at 9:17 am
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   From kjb434:

   Dean,

   Do you know how a TIRZ works? No money is taken from taxpayers and spent on these projects. The TIRZ gets their money from businesses’ property tax only on the increased value. The bulk still goes to the city to be spent everywhere in the city.

   The point of the TIRZ is that the people vested in an area can improve it themselves versus taking money from other neighborhoods that needed. TIRZ’s have saved the general taxpayer lots of money by pushing the burden within their district to the commercial property owners.

   April 14, 2009 at 9:23 am
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   From Jeromy Murphy:

   I’m on the Session at St. Philip Presbyterian (on San Felipe between the Loop and Post Oak) and we will be having one of these streets cut through our back alley. It won’t benefit us that much, but it should make traffic flow on this section of street much better. I’ve heard that they will be adding a traffic light. Maybe they will no longer need the officers to control traffic during rush hour.

   April 14, 2009 at 2:11 pm