More Ponds, Hugging Bayous
Houston will spend $30 million in the upcoming fiscal year on detention ponds like those built under Project Brays. “About $20 million in federal Hurricane Ike relief money and $10 million in city...
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Just out of edit: this action-packed reel featuring Houston’s multi-site skate park and its signature attraction, the bayou hop. Houston Rollerblading — WI in town [Vimeo] Video: Vimeo user emill
View ArticleComment of the Day: A Park Grows in Idylwood
“The neighborhood will be able to ‘use’ the vacant land but cannot build permanent structures upon it. With the exception of one lot at the far end of N. Macgregor, 9 are connecting so that they will...
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Missouri City Grows Its Own Trail Mix
Missouri City forester Paul Wierzbicki tells reporter Cory Stottlemeyer that he expects the Jujubes, Mexican plums, Mexican persimmons, mulberries, pomegranates, figs, pears, and kumquats he began...
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Parks By You’s Feel-Good Campaign To Build More Bayou Parks by You
Yep, that’s a bike-gear-sporting State Sen. Rodney Ellis, 2 city council members, and both bearded and cleanshaven versions of model Lauren Bush’s brother — Pierce Bush — talking up the idea of...
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The Next Stretch of Brays Bayou Hike and Bike
Across town from the molten-zinc-dipped pedestrian bridges and Bud Light Amphitheaters going up along Buffalo Bayou, site prep is underway to build a new section of hike and bike trail along Brays...
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High Voltage News for Houston Bicyclists
Parks and Rec department director Joe Turner tells the Chronicle‘s Mike Morris that a powerline right-of-way crossing on University of Houston property northeast of the intersection of Martin Luther...
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The 9 Zoomiest Images in West 8’s Master Plan for the Houston Botanic Garden...
Bright and shiny renderings from the recently-released master plan for the Houston Botanic Garden show that design firm West 8 is aware of the challenges involved in straddling a world-class park...
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Comment of the Day: Will Houston Stop Turning Its Back on the Bayou Greenways?
“This is revolutionary…they will make a building FACE the bayou, rather than back up to it with a solid concrete wall lined with putrid dumpsters. I have been waiting for this day for decades! To my...
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The Estimated Pricetag on a Stop to Houston Flooding
Amid the latest round of area flooding last week, Dylan Baddour traces the roots of Houston’s massive publicly funded drainage projects, which have brought the total length of Harris County waterways...
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Group Forms To Clean Up The Upper San Jacinto Before It Gets as Bad as Brays,...
The West Fork of the San Jacinto River (implicated in much of the latest flooding between The Woodlands and Conroe) is in a bacterial “sweet spot”, environmental planner Justin Bower tells Matthew...
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Comment of the Day: Keeping Buffalo Bayou in its Place
“Sounds nice — but that little part about the bayou being in the middle of the city, that’s why it can’t be left up to nature. . . . I understand the need to conserve and protect, but the Buffalo Bayou...
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