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Fine, Parks Board Tells Idylwood Residents, We Won’t Build a Parking Lot If...
At a meeting yesterday, reps from the Houston Parks Board told reps from the Idylwood Civic Club that the HPB would agree to let alone that grassy knoll, shown here, where a trailhead providing access...
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Sims Bayou Getting Some More of That Greenway Mileage
Last week, the city and the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to build almost 14 new miles of hike and bike trail — from I-45 to west of 288 — along Sims Bayou. The project, construction for which could...
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Buffalo Bayou’s Abandoned Basement Now Ready To Be the Subject of Your...
Now have at it: SmartGeometrics has made available for free on a website launched yesterday the data from 3D scans of the allegedly leaky, 87,500-sq.-ft. 1927 underground water reservoir near Sabine...
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What a Hotel, Conference Center, and Condos Might Look Like in Uptown
Here’s a concept that HKS came up with for a site just behind the Hotel Granduca, Montebello, and Villa d’Este towers in Uptown Park. The concept shows how it might go if you wanted to build a...
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Here Comes More Greenway Mileage for White Oak Bayou
Construction began yesterday on a new 1.35-mile segment of hike and bike trail on White Oak Bayou, the first of 5 planned sections that will more or less formalize the route that some trail users have...
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Building a Monument to Gated Flood Control and Tourism
Protecting the Ship Channel during an Ike-like (or worse) storm surge has led some to propose a big dike, others a big gate. But UH professor of urban planning Tom Colbert doesn’t see why we couldn’t...
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The Catch in Kinder Foundation’s Bayou Greenways Cash Giveaway
It’s one thing to get the money to build a bunch of nice parks, and it’s another to keep them nice: Houston Chronicle reports that the Kinder Foundation isn’t convinced that the city will be able to...
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Lookee What the Kinder Foundation’s $50M Is Gonna Help Build Along the Bayous
So the city has agreed to hand over maintenance of all the new bayou trails ’n’ stuff to the Houston Parks Board — it was the one condition that the Kinder Foundation stipulated before it would agree...
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Where the Dogs Will Play Along Buffalo Bayou
Here’s a rendering that shows how that informal dog bowl along Buffalo Bayou near Montrose Blvd. will be formalized and capitalized into a Dog Park. Construction, says a PR rep for the Buffalo Bayou...
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Comment of the Day Runner-Up: After the Bayou Floods
“I’ve been riding the trail along the Bayou for 6 years and I’d say the flood debris problem has been greatly reduced of late. That might just be a result of the drought, but certainly the city has...
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New Apartments Will Be as Close as They Can Get to the TMC Without Stepping...
And here, from a reader perched at the top level of MD Anderson’s Braeswood Garage at Braeswood Blvd. and Pressler St., are photos of the land- and tree-clearing going on for the new...
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Comment of the Day: The Better Lake
“Wrong lake? Would you prefer rush hour on Lake Conroe? Shoulder to shoulder and all the noise? The area of Lake Livingston is 129.7 sq miles compared to Lake Conroe of 32.81 sq miles. Four times as...
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Poking Around Those New White Oak Bayou Retention Ponds South of the Heights
A reader sends in pics showing how construction is progressing on the 3 retention ponds along White Oak Bayou TxDOT is building between Yale and Shepherd — and hoping to trade them for any available...
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The Latest Twists and Turns in the Flood Control District’s Plan to Reshape...
in this week’s Houston Press, writer Dianna Wray wades into the murky waters surrounding the Harris County Flood Control District’s plan to move and rebuild the banks of Buffalo Bayou where it winds...
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Where the Poop Is, in and Around Lake Houston
“While some Houston bayous, such as Buffalo and White Oak, have bacteria levels seven times higher than Lake Houston’s watershed, the waters flowing from the San Jacinto River are more vital, said...
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The Plug Has Been Pulled; Low-Lying West U Can Relax and Drain Now
. . . Well, at least as long as Brays Bayou is able to handle whatever rains come. Late last month, an excavator (pictured above) yanked out the last piece of a 3-year-old 6-ft.-by-6-ft. concrete...
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There’s a Lot of Lot Over Here by Little White Oak Bayou in the Near Northside
Little White Oak Bayou meanders by the back of a property (and so do a couple of uh, hikers in the background of the top photo) located east of N. Main St. and about 3 sidewalk-lined blocks from the...
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Your Treasure Map to 100-Plus Cars and Trucks Rusting in Sims and Brays Bayous
A spokesman says the Houston Police Department has “long been aware” of most of the 127 vehicles Texas Equusearch found submerged in Houston bayous back in 2011, when the nonprofit search-and-rescue...
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Yes, You’ve Been Sipping What Dallas Has Been Flushing
“For the large chunk of population that lives downstream from a big city and whose water supply flows through a river, more than a few drops of the water in their glasses was probably once in someone...
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Comment of the Day: What Counts as a Spring in Houston
“The definition of a ‘spring’ can vary a lot, and is used loosely here. In Harris County, where the topography is relatively flat, most of our ‘ponds’ and ‘lakes’ are either borrow pits (excavated to...
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