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  1. Houston19514
    Huh? How will it cause more traffic at the i59 [sic]-288 merger?
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    My post included every bit as much backup as yours. I'll repost with more complete responses. FWIW, I have no idea if you saw me, but I was at several of the meetings and I have spent many hours poring over the FEIS and am very familiar with the plans. http://ih45northandmore.com/final_eis.aspx Plainly false. Whether naysayers like to accept it or not, the project provides for more traffic capacity, both for single-occupant vehicles and mass transit. Plus the benefit of removing freeway lanes from two sides of downtown.
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    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/What-Downtown-Houston-s-next-park-will-look-like-13808234.php#photo-17312455
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    Literally everything in your post is false.
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    FWIW, the two schools are: Alpha and Omega Christian Academy 5621 North Freeway (which TxDoT has apparently already acquired) and Culinary Institute Le Notre, 7070 Allensby Street.
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    Tap the brakes there. THOUSANDS of homes and businesses??? I think not.
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    FWIW, you didn't need the exception for mandatory parking minimums. Houston is in no way an outlier in that regard. Overall we are probably have below average mandatory parking minimums.
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    So that evil UT has been secretly trying to establish a full-fledged university in our town for 30 years. (We all know the only institutions that have athletic fields are four-year degree-granting universities...). ;-)
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    For starters, you'd need to find a much wider river than we currently have... ;-)
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    I wouldn't be so sure of that. Be watching for the press event where Representative Sheila Jackson Lee announces the resolution of her issues with the project by TxDoT agreeing to do things they were already committed to doing (like replacing the public housing units and paying for the residents' relocation).
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    Quite right. On a recent bike ride, I was paused at a traffic signal. Signal turned green for me, but I waited for the car that blew threw her red light while reading something on her phone. If I blow threw a red light reading my phone while on my bike, it's MY problem. The phone-reader in her car is going to kill someone.
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    Sorry to belabor this, but I'm really not understanding what you want from this development. As we've been describing to you, it does provide a number of spaces for restaurants on the water, unless by "on the water" you mean literally "ON the water". You give us the Pearl as your model of integrating with the river... how many restaurants in the Pearl are on the water? I can find one (and it is "on the water" in exactly the same sense that the restaurant spaces in East River's plan are on the water). The vast majority of the Pearl's restaurants and retail are in coutyards and plazas separated from the river, except for walkways leading down to the river (in that sense quite similar to the plan for the East River. So, they don't have a plan for an amphitheater like the Pearl's (which, last I knew was still situated next to a riverfront surface parking lot). In Phase 1. This kind of complaint is one of the things that drives me crazy about HAIFers (and Houstonians in general). No matter what the plan or design, we can ALWAYS find something somewhere that would have been nice to include, meanwhile ignoring all of the ways in which our plans include things not included elsewhere (such as, in this case, multiple restaurants on the water, and no surface parking lots on the water). The ONLY sense in which I can see the Pearl as being more integrated with its river is that the buildings (and surface parking lots) are somewhat closer to the water's edge... but as you acknowledged, it's a different kind of river.
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    I think the hike/bike trail along the water's edge is one of the keys. That is in keeping with the Buffalo Bayou plan. No one has in mind trying to recreate or mimic San Antonio's riverwalk, especially in this part of the bayou. A careful look through the retail leasing website shows they have indeed not turned their back on the bayou but have quite a lot of retail and other spaces that embrace the water front. The Trailhead 1 Building has a minimum of two good-sized retail (restaurant) spaces with waterfront exposure, including outdoors spaces overlooking the water, all on the ground floor. Plus, that building shows rooftop retail space available, also overlooking the bayou. To the west of the Trailhead 1 Building is the "River Pavilion", with at least two more good-sized retail spaces on the ground floor, both with waterfront exposure and outdoor spaces overlooking the water. From the description of the River Pavilion: "The jewel box of Phase I, this restaurant space provides guests with unparalleled views of the Houston skyline, Buffalo Bayou, and the activated hike and bike trails." I'm not sure what more people were hoping to see here.
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    Would something like this be better?
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    Are you sure about the Chik-Fil-A thing (closing because of the BRT project)? I'm thinking that may have been an urban myth.
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    Yes, that is really the plan.
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    We could take some ideas from Paris' plan for a huge makeover of Champs-Élysées. I can live without a boulevard, but at least give me pedestrian islands at all crosswalks (and a lot more crosswalks). ;-)
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    Yeah, it seems very unlikely this is related to the freeway project, unless they are just doing sampling. Even then, it seems a bit far from where the construction will be.
  19. Houston19514
    When did World Market close?
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    ROFL Classic NextDoor "MY HAIR IS ON FIRE!!!!" FWIW, walked by on my evening walk, within the last 45 minutes or so. Watched them bring down the old chiller, so the wind must have calmed down, I guess.
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    Oh, Yeah. There is no doubt Segment 3 (the part of the project around downtown) is happening. Property acquisitions have been proceeding for more than a year already. They expect enter into the construction contracts later this year (probably September), with actual construction starting probably by year-end. First construction will start at the very south end of the project (I-69 around Montrose) and proceed north.
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    Cool. I see it now. Not sure how I missed it. Would love to see boulevard AND bike lanes.
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    There is no High Comfort Bike Lane shown on Montrose in the linked map. I don't know where you are seeing a plan for high comfort bike lanes (or any bike lanes) on Montrose Blvd. (There are high comfort lanes mapped for Yoakum Blvd/Waugh Drive/Commonwealth; perhaps that's what you are thinking of.) Interestingly, the Montrose Potential Projects List that spurred this conversation includes a listing of Walk/Bike Projects: Waugh, Commonwealth Dr & Yoakum Hawthorne Neighborhood Street Woodhead Neighborhood Street West Dallas Street Welch Street Stanford Neighborhood Street Mandell Street Nothing on Montrose. Not to belabor this too much, but I think it's important to point out that a boulevard can provide value and serve purposes without being "used" in the sense you are asking for. They would increase pedestrian safety/comfort, provide traffic calming, increase beauty, create cleaner/cooler air, etc.
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    Isn't this the city's bike plan map? https://mycity.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c59bb1a39ba14202817e11ce7420ad31 I don't see any bike lanes planned on Montrose Blvd. As I said, the boulevard should be beautifully landscaped. Let's replace it now so the city can enjoy "old-growth" live oaks in the boulevard in future decades. Not only would it be beautiful, it would make it all instantly more pedestrian friendly.
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    Bike lanes would be nice, but I think the boulevard/esplanade is more important. Montrose should be one of our signature boulevards for its entire length, with a beautiful landscaped boulevard, wide sidewalks, and easy/frequent pedestrian crossings. It would be cool to have both the boulevard AND bike lanes but I'm not sure there's room for all that. So, bike lanes can go on other nearby streets (and I believe that is the plan).
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