posted by Tory Gattis @ 10:45 PM
An open dialogue on serious strategies for making Houston a better city, as well as a coalition-builder to make them happen. All comments, email, and support welcome.
Social Systems Architect, consultant and entrepreneur with a genuine love of my hometown and its people. I cover a wide range of topics in this blog - including transportation, transit, economic development, quality-of-life, city identity, and development and land-use regulations - and have published numerous Houston Chronicle op-eds on these topics. I also co-authored the Opportunity Urbanism study with noted urbanist Joel Kotkin and others, creating a city philosophy around upward social mobility for all citizens as an alternative to the popular smart growth, new urbanism, and creative class movements. I am a native Houstonian, 6th-generation Texan, attended Rice University for my BSEE and MBA, and a former McKinsey consultant and adjunct faculty member with Leadership Houston. I have had a long career in information technology, and am currently the founder and president of OpenTeams, a web-based collaborative software company that emphasizes openness and transparency inside large organizations. CONTACT EMAIL in no-spam format: tgattis (at) pdq.net - send me an email if you would like to receive these posts via email, or see the Google Groups signup box below.
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4 Comments:
As a consumer of nice-looking freeways, I'm sure I'd agree that the landscaping looks nice.
But as a card-carrying (?!) libertarian, I say: You want landscaped freeways, go form a community action group and plant some frickin' trees, don't do it on my tax dime!!!
I tend to agree. The federal government now gets way too involved in what should be locally-decided and funded initiatives. It switches the local mentality from "What's the right and cost effective thing to do?" to "How much money can we squeeze out of the feds?" Unfortunately, as long as that's the situation, Houston is doing the right thing going after everything it can.
Yous guys, speaking as a non card carrying Liberal, that landscaping you're talking about, is *IN THE CITY OF BELLAIRE*.
:-)
Well, partially. I actually pass a Houston city limits sign going along the southbound 610 feeder before getting to Beechnut. All the Meyerland retail area is in the City of Houston. In any case, I believe the freeway landscaping is a TXDoT initiative, not a local city thing.
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