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

4 Comments

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   From Earle and Kristi Martin:

   For neighborhood of the year: Southampton

   For best project cancellation or delay: Ashby high rise

   For the same reason: Southampton and the various contingent smaller neighborhoods are unique in Houston, in that they are true neighborhoods touching the inner city. With modest to larger homes, quiet tree-lined streets, children on bikes, older walkers, neighbors visiting, and dog-walkers, its entire environment would be permanently impaired by the looming Ashby high rise project. The traffic created would destroy the uniqeness of this Houston neighborhood jewel.

   December 28, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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   From Barbara Eaves:

   Thanks to no zoning, Houston has precious few historic, unique neighborhoods. Boulevard Oaks is one. And now comes Ashby Highrise to trash it with a 23-story highrise and all the noise, traffic and congestion it would introduce to these peaceful, tree-lined streets. They’d trash the very uniqueness that probably attracted them in the first place.

   December 28, 2008 at 4:41 pm
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   From Tom:

   I vote for Southampton

   December 28, 2008 at 4:45 pm
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   From Gus:

   @Earle, Kristi, Barbara, and Tom: This is not the ballot. Please add your votes to the posts that announce the official nominees for the categories you are voting in — or send them to Swamplot in a private email. You can find links to the correct posts here.

   December 28, 2008 at 4:53 pm