TIME’S UP! Yesterday at 5 pm was the deadline for opponents of 14 of the city’s 16 designated historic districts (there’s no going back for the Old Sixth Ward or Main St./Market Square) to submit petitions calling for their oldish neighborhoods to return to the good ol’ days of unrestricted demolition and less-restrictive development. The threshold to trigger actual balloting in any of the districts is pretty low: All they need are the signatures of owners representing 10 percent or more of a district’s total tracts. So who’s in — er, heading for an out? [previously on Swamplot] Update: We’ve got the answer!
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I just got an email from HAHC saying that they have heard but not yet verified that 14 of the 16 district have had petitions filed.
Correction, the email was from the Coalition of Houston Historic Districts, referring to today’s HAHC meeting.
14 of 16, that should tell miz mayor something.
It turned out to be 8 of 16, and what it told the Mayor was that 10% was a very low threshold.