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- Houston Still Hasn’t Spent Tens of Millions in HUD Money It Got To Build Affordable Housing After Ike [The Texas Tribune]
- 4 Major Takeaways on Equitable Recovery and Resilience [The Urban Edge]
- Houston Had Nearly 22M Visitors Last Year [Houston Chronicle]
- More Than 2 Dozen Blue Tile Street Names Added to Westheimer Curbs Between Buffalo Speedway and Shepherd [abc13]
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Re: Blue tile street names
I applaud the Upper Kirby District’s ability to leverage federal dollars and district tax dollars in improving both their streets and pedestrian experience. Montrose will still be there for your seedier needs, but be careful of your car’s wheel rims, safety due to poor lighting and of course for missing or mangled sidewalks. This is the Montrose the stores here want as they homeless and their trashy patrons prefer it that way. (Pardon to the ones that prefer a living and not a decaying neighborhood).
Re: Blue tile street names
I applaud the Upper Kirby District’s ability to leverage federal dollars and district tax dollars in improving both their streets and pedestrian experience. Montrose will still be there for your seedier needs, but be careful of your car’s wheel rims, safety due to poor lighting and of course for missing or mangled sidewalks. This is the Montrose the stores here want as the homeless and their trashy patrons prefer it that way. (Pardon to the ones that prefer a living and not a decaying neighborhood).
The continual push-back of the vote is a conscience effort for developers to have more time to lobby the city council. I have a feeling that the 500 year + 2 feet becomes something like 200 + 1 ft. That being said, it doesn’t really matter all that much as most of developmental Harris county is not in Houston and will be developed to a much less strict standard…. resulting in more run-off, etc etc. Until west Harris county creates a more strict standard for detention and home elevation, everyone in the Houston area is screwed.
Next, I think the Chronicle should take on NYTimes over the ‘Broken Obelisk’ exhibited in the MOMA. Unlike Bean-gate, ‘Broken Obelisk’ is a case of exact replication, and ours is way cooler…
WR has a man-crush on MMD
@G: I’m thinking he’s a newly unemployed MMD lackey.
@G and @J …. Nope, never employed by, associated with, or have done work for the MMD. I am for progress though, and a TRIZ is about the only way I see a neighborhood (such as Montrose) get a help in improving the area without waiting for the next inter-glacial period. If merchants and land owners want to have a seedy area where they feel comfortable, so be it. I guess tattoo shops, the homeless, etc have to go somewhere, just don’t complain about the lack of city services as they WILL go elsewhere without a community voice pushing for it.
Re: Median Incomes
Anybody else notice that the houses in the chron’s slideshow are all well above the median house price listed?
WR: Yet property values in Montrose keep skyrocketing.
WR: In midtown, there is an assessment that EVERYONE PAYS. They’ve used that to fix up the place. And their management group tends to have popular support.
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In Montrose it was super shady. A in-the-dark process that got just 25 people to form a group that only taxes commercial owners (and even that process they cheated on since some of the people that signed were not commercial owners, as required).
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80% of those commercial property owners not only were against it (my guess is the % was higher) but actually were able to be organized to sign a petition to dissolve the district (the law requires 75% to sign, which is a monster obstacle).
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When the petition was delivered to the Montrose management district they basically said “fuck you” and continued to run. If you didn’t pay, they’d try to foreclose.
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I’m all for pitching in to make your neighborhood nicer. But this MMD was NOT the way.