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10 Comments

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   From Chef:

   The proposed tower would have scary-looking eyes, pointed teeth, and arms waving about.

   October 31, 2012 at 2:03 pm
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   From mek ju:

   Google Street View may offer an explanation. That house doesn’t fit in on that street. Apparently neither does its resident.

   October 31, 2012 at 2:10 pm
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   From Jason:

   Chef:

   Someone I knew dressed as the Ashby Highrise for Halloween one year, so great.

   October 31, 2012 at 2:56 pm
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   From commmonsense:

   I know this one is a joke but someone thought it would be really funny to put a highrise smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood at 150 Gessner. I wonder if back in the day the neighbors were up in arms over it with scary signs on their front lawns.

   October 31, 2012 at 3:04 pm
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   From GoogleMaster:

   Google Street View shows that the house looks like the other houses in the neighborhood. ???

   October 31, 2012 at 3:18 pm
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   From Marksmu:

   Gessner is a major thoroughfare…its not even remotely similar.

   November 1, 2012 at 9:14 am
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   From commonsense:

   Gessner is a major street but that part of it goes right through a residential neighborhood and there’s no multi-family or even commercial around for at least a mile in any direction. It was also built before city center, Memorial hospital, or even before Memorial City Mall was revamped. In comparison, Ashby makes perfect sense.

   November 1, 2012 at 10:06 am
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   From ShadyHeightster:

   Commonsense, there were no scary monster signs, but there was a huge wail and cry from the neighborhood around the Gessner highrise at the time. Similar to the Ashby thing today, but with less lawsuits. Around the same time ( 1983 or 84?) there was an office building on Bering near Woodway built that had a multi-story parking garage built up to the lotline behind some Tanglewood homes that face Chimney Rock. I could be wrong, but I think those two events led to the vote on having zoning in Houston that occurred around 1990 ( and which failed).

   November 1, 2012 at 11:12 am
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   From Rodrigo:

   ShadyHeightster, wow: http://goo.gl/maps/QEbES

   If you ever wanted to find an advocate of zoning, it’s probably the guy that lived in that house in the early 80′s.

   November 1, 2012 at 3:31 pm
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    From ShadyHeightster:

    That’s the one Rodrigo!

    November 1, 2012 at 3:54 pm