Livability News - Houston

Houston becoming “remarkably green in its civic impulses”

Impressive revitalization

Matt Dietrichson, Feb 07, 12.

Houston is getting national attention for its impressively green revitalization efforts.

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Contract awarded to dredge Intracoastal Waterway

Keeping waterways open

Matt Dietrichson, Feb 02, 12.

The US Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, has awarded a $3.3 million contract to dredge the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

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Can Houston become the “Gateway of North America”?

Center of global freight

Jay Blazek Crossley, Jan 31, 12.

The Fourth Annual Harris County International Trade & Transportation Conference examined the ability for the area to become the hub of North American trade.

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Unincorporated Harris in a bind it thought COH would fix

County/MUDs can't fix streets

Jay Blazek Crossley, Jan 31, 12.

Unincorporated areas of Harris County that were developed expecting City of Houston to annex them have no funding to maintain neighborhood streets.

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Public meetings to begin for Regional Sustainable Development plan

Several ways to be involved

David Crossley, Jan 31, 12.

Public meetings for the 13-county Regional Plan for Sustainable Development will begin this month.

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Salvaging Houston’s first underground reservoir

Many possibilities for bayou

Matt Dietrichson, Jan 31, 12.

Planners are looking for a way to use the rediscovered underground reservoir built near Buffalo Bayou and Sabine Street in 1927

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Christus Health leaving Houston for DFW

Transportation among factors

Matt Dietrichson, Jan 31, 12.

The ease of air travel, availability of public transportation, range of housing options, and quality of life all factored into Christus Health's move to DFW

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H-GAC taking public comment on 290 / 610 / 10 intersection makeover

TX bond funds to pay for it

Jay Blazek Crossley, Jan 25, 12.

Newly available state bond funds would allow H-GAC to add the 290 / Loop 610 / I-10 interchange reconstruction back into the TIP, following public comment.

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Push begins to build SH249 toll road in northwest

Related to SH99

Jay Blazek Crossley, Jan 25, 12.

A coalition of Harris and Montgomery Counties and several cities is forming to push for the proposed 249 toll road from Spring Cypress to FM 1774.

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SH99 shifting growth outside of City of Sugar Land

Tollway inducing sprawl

Matt Dietrichson, Jan 19, 12.

Following investment in SH99, many residents are drawn away from the “heart” of Sugar Land, and so are many businesses and even schools.

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