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  1. Houston19514
    They should have gone with postal Zip Code, rather than telephone area code. Maybe "02 Music Hall"
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    I think pink is secondary
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    Do I understand this correctly? It looks like all the streets along the University Line are secondary. Is that because they don't know for certain where the stations will be and once that is known, the streets around the stations will become primary TOD streets?
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    For those interested in data, here is what Klineberg's data tells us about the non-Hispanic white population of the Houston metro area from 1990 to 2010. It will be interesting to see the 2020 numbers when comparable data becomes available: 1990: 57.9% = 1,911,822 2000: 482% = 2,013,125 2010: 39.7% = 2,350,405
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    And I posted the link to the data. Who knows what Klineberg was trying to say in that quote or whether he was misquoted or taken out of context? The data speaks for itself. And it does not show a white population stagnation.
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    If there's stagnation in the white population, it would show up in the data. A few cars in Austin bearing bumper stickers supporting the state's best baseball team tells us nothing. The Kinder Institute's (i.e., Klineberg's) own data disproves the stagnation theory.
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    So, you're now agreeing that there probably haven't been more anglos leaving than arriving, but you still want to cling to your idea that there is some significant white flight out of the Houston metro area... hmmmm The Anglo growth is not immediately evident from my links... One has to do some calculations. I meant to come back in today to show my work. Here it is: In the Kinder Institute report, they show percentages of the metro population that is Anglo. 1990: 57.9% 2000: 48.2% 2010: 39.7% I looked up the metro population for those years: 1990: 3,301,937 = Anglo population of 1,911,822 2000: 4,177,646 = Anglo population of 2,013,635 2010: 5,920,416 = Anglo population of 2,350,405 The Census Bureau link provided the information regarding the 2020 numbers. I added up the given white populations of the metropolitan area counties. That added up to an Anglo population of 2,950,362. Now, personally, I doubt we experienced that level of Anglo population growth from 2010-2020. I suspect that jump has to do with varying methods of categorization and survey questioning. But it seems pretty clear that the data do not show a decline or even stagnation for the Anglo population of the Houston metro area.
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    So, if we are positing that natural growth (among anglos) is essentially flat and the total population (of anglos) is essentially flat, then it cannot be true that significantly more are leaving than arriving. Not sure of your Klineberg reference. Perhaps he was referring to Harris County? Looking at the numbers from the Kinder Institute and the 2020 census, it appears the Houston metro has added 600,000 more anglos since 1990. https://kinder.rice.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Houston Region Grows More Ethnically Diverse 4-9.pdf, https://mtgis-portal.geo.census.gov/arcgis/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=2566121a73de463995ed2b2fd7ff6eb7 (Edited Aug 21 to reflect more accurate numbers for 2020 demographics.)
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    I'm not taking the time right now to try to dig up the components of Houston metro population growth, but the trend nation-wide is towards negative natural growth among the non-HIspanic white population. I recall reading several years ago that more than half the states were at that time experiencing such negative natural "growth". The Houston metro has a younger population so is probably above the national average for natural population growth, but it seems reasonable to expect that it is pretty minimally positive among the non-Hispanic white population.
  10. Houston19514
    Oh wow. Thanks for the info.
  11. Houston19514
    Do you know how much of that block it will take?
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    Per the linked article, roughly 28% of Texas' population growth is from international immigration. (Roughly half is from births over deaths; about 56% of the migration into Texas is international migration.)
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    I think I read that for the country as a whole, the non-hispanic white population actually went down. But did it go down in Texas? Just because the Hispanic and non-white population in Texas is growing faster than the non-Hispanic white population, does not mean there is any significant exodus of non-Hispanic whites from either Houston metro or Texas. Non-Hispanic white population still grew by more than 187,000 in the decade. There has been a trend reduced non-Hispanic white population in central counties such as Harris and Dallas, but I think they are mostly moving to suburban counties, not to Austin or out of state. Do we actually have demographics of the corporate relocation people? Is there really reason to think they are largely non-Hispanic white?
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    More fun with 2020 Census: Of the top 50 metro areas, here are the 10 fastest-growing by percentage and by number Percentage Growth: Numerical Growth:
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    2020 Census numbers came out yesterday. Houston (technically Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land) remains the 5th largest metro area. Houston Metro: Population: 7,122,240 We added 1,201,824 since the 2010 census for a growth rate of 20.3%, the fastest growth rate among the top 20 metros. (One has to go down to No. 22 Orlando to find a metro with a faster growth rate (25.3%; of course that is less than 1/2 the number of people we added.) Other Texas and regional metros: Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington: 7,637,387. Still the 4th largest metro. Grew almost as fast as we did - 20%. Added 1,270,845 people. San Antonio-New Braunfels: 2,558,143. Still the 24th largest metro. Added 415,635 for a growth rate of 19.4% Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown: 2,283,371. 28th largest metro (up from 29th). Added 567,082 people for a growth rate of 33%! Oklahoma City: 1,425,695. Still the 41st largest metro at 1,425,695. Added 172,708 people for a growth rate of 13.8% New Orleans-Metarie: 1,271,845. 46th largest metro (down from 45th). Added 81,979 people for a growth rate of 6.9%
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    Yes there is, but I'm pretty the master plan did not contemplate it being a hotel/event space.
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    My point was that a hotel on either side of the street appears to be a departure from the Master Plan, so the Master Plan doesn't really tell us much about which side of the street it might be on.
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    I don't think either side of the street matches their master plan... (There are different versions out there... where did you find this one?)
  19. Houston19514
    Possible. The Menil Foundation owns the entire block. But the hotel could also be going in on the east side of the street.
  20. Houston19514
    Actually, it's in Boulevard Oaks AND University Place. University Place is the super neighborhood that includes Southampton, Boulevard Oaks, etc.
  21. Houston19514
    According to the article, I think it was almost two years ago...
  22. Houston19514
    First of all, I absolutely would. Words have meanings. Second, and more to the point, even if they demanded something, I would follow their words closely. If they demanded I " pause before initiating any further contract solicitation efforts for the project, including issuance of any Requests for Proposals", I would not issue any contract solicitations or RFPs, but I would NOT read it expansively to include things their language does not include. And again, what is the hangup about this? TXDoT gave the letter a very reasonable interpretation. The Feds followed up with clarification (and the Feds referred to it as a clarification). Done deal. I doubt there are two people in either TXDoT or the Federal government who have given this particular "controversy" another thought.
  23. Houston19514
    Yeah, and what, really, is your point? That a Federal bureaucrat sent out an ambiguously worded letter that required clarification? Whoah! Stop the presses! LOL
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    I read "contact solicitation" to mean something quite different (and apart) from land acquisition. To me, and probably to any attorney with any experience in highway projects, contract solicitation has to do with soliciting contracts for design, construction etc. Land acquisition is a completely different process and does not really involve "contract solicitation" or Requests for Proposals. If they intended to stop (or pause) ALL activities related to the project, they should have stated as much. It would have been quite easy to do; like this: "we request that TxDOT pause before initiating any further activities for the project . . . " By the way, it's also noteworthy that by its own terms it was a "request".
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    I didn't see any statements in the last few days... surely you could provide a link if you saw such. No. TXDot has not said it's their plan or no plan. They have said all along that the plan is not final, especially segments 1 and 2. Hence the productive ongoing discussions with the City. The initial letter from the Feds did NOT tell them to stop "all progress." I would have read it in exactly the same way that TXDoT read it. Fo anyone interested in gaining some context and a little reality check, go to 55:30 in the linked meeting recording (Downtown TIRZ meeting) and listen.
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