Will the Ashby high-rise protesters get the band back together? Will Houston figure out...
Vacant property at 1717 Bissonnet Street at Ashby Street in the Boulevard Oaks neighborhood, Friday, April 29, 2022, in Houston.In October 2007, protesters marched up and down a well-off stretch of Bissonnet Street, many carrying signs depicting a “monster tower” with grasping arms and bared teeth, looming over single-family homes in the prosperous adjacent neighborhoods.
A few months after this display of civic outrage, as millions of Americans lost their jobs, homes and savings due to a global financial crisis, a more parochial issue - land-use policy in Houston, Texas - occupied the attention of a small but earnest group of city officials, neighborhood activists and real estate industry leaders who assembled regularly in a conference room in the City Hall annex.
The group’s goal was afflicted with a name that hardly tripped off the tongue: a “high-density development ordinance.” This measure, if they could figure out how to write it, would protect neighborhoods made up mostly of detached, single-family residences from the deleterious effects — traffic congestion, blocked views, a general “out of place” aesthetic — of developments that concentrated more people into smaller spaces. High-rise residential towers, for example.
. One concern was that the measure’s language would potentially affect future projects, but it wouldn’t have stopped the Ashby high-rise. As I wrote at the time, “Finding ways to capture only projects that fit this narrow definition has required hours of discussions of fine points such as the meaning of the word ‘abutting.’” By midsummer, the project wasand never taken up again in the same context.
Across the city, meanwhile, complaints persist about problematic land uses: New music venues and strip clubs pop up all over. Concrete batch plants, it turns out,
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