> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:13:23 EST
> From: RickStapls
> Subject: Re: GMC: Coach is now dressed!
>
> I thought Houston was renowned for having little or no zoning. Have
they
> given up and joined the Plastic People?
- ---snip--
> Rick Staples
> '75 Eleganza
> Louisville, CO
Actually, Rick, we live in a small incorporated city near Rice University,
completely surrounded by Houston. This community, with its own police, fire
protection, and city services enforces zoning, differentiating it from
Houston city sprawl. BUT...no parking of anything other than a regular auto
in the drive!
This is "yuppie" haven, with strictly enforced pet-lease, pooper-scooper,
noise, tree-cutting, fencing, garage sales, house moving, etc, ordinances,
along with a long list of ticketable "laws": parked facing the wrong
direction on the street, parked on the street more than 48 hours at a time
without moving, walking/jogging/roll-blading in the street, putting out
garbage before 6pm the day before pickup, putting out yard clippings in
other than brown bags, construction activity before 7am or after 10pm,etc,
etc.... and one that causes Great controversy.....no parking in a driveway
blocking any part of a sidewalk. Never mind that on many streets there are
no sidewalks at all and that many of the houses, originally built in the
30's & 40's, don't have a driveway long enough for a late model car to park
without sticking out partly into the sidewalk! It's the only city I know of
where you will see cars parked side-ways in the driveway! What a hoot!
But as much as I may gripe about these ordinances and laws, I can't find
fault with the fact that equivalent properties in all the incorporated,
ZONED communities inside Houston have higher values than those in the city!
I just have to accept that all these rules are inevitable when so many
people are crowded together. Remember the over-crowding study done years
ago using caged mice ? After their population got to a certain point, mice
were perching on cubicle edges, just to get some space! I guess when
neighbors start fighting over inches on the property line, it's time to move
on.
We are currently building our retirement house on 4 acres of land, where Tom
gets a HUGE workshop with an RV garage for the Texas Tux....and I can sit on
the porch, and supervise ^_^
(that's a joke, guys!...I'm really the designated Go-For...)
Anneke Henderson - Houston (West University)
76 Birchaven - custom
> From: RickStapls
> Subject: Re: GMC: Coach is now dressed!
>
> I thought Houston was renowned for having little or no zoning. Have
they
> given up and joined the Plastic People?
- ---snip--
> Rick Staples
> '75 Eleganza
> Louisville, CO
Actually, Rick, we live in a small incorporated city near Rice University,
completely surrounded by Houston. This community, with its own police, fire
protection, and city services enforces zoning, differentiating it from
Houston city sprawl. BUT...no parking of anything other than a regular auto
in the drive!
This is "yuppie" haven, with strictly enforced pet-lease, pooper-scooper,
noise, tree-cutting, fencing, garage sales, house moving, etc, ordinances,
along with a long list of ticketable "laws": parked facing the wrong
direction on the street, parked on the street more than 48 hours at a time
without moving, walking/jogging/roll-blading in the street, putting out
garbage before 6pm the day before pickup, putting out yard clippings in
other than brown bags, construction activity before 7am or after 10pm,etc,
etc.... and one that causes Great controversy.....no parking in a driveway
blocking any part of a sidewalk. Never mind that on many streets there are
no sidewalks at all and that many of the houses, originally built in the
30's & 40's, don't have a driveway long enough for a late model car to park
without sticking out partly into the sidewalk! It's the only city I know of
where you will see cars parked side-ways in the driveway! What a hoot!
But as much as I may gripe about these ordinances and laws, I can't find
fault with the fact that equivalent properties in all the incorporated,
ZONED communities inside Houston have higher values than those in the city!
I just have to accept that all these rules are inevitable when so many
people are crowded together. Remember the over-crowding study done years
ago using caged mice ? After their population got to a certain point, mice
were perching on cubicle edges, just to get some space! I guess when
neighbors start fighting over inches on the property line, it's time to move
on.
We are currently building our retirement house on 4 acres of land, where Tom
gets a HUGE workshop with an RV garage for the Texas Tux....and I can sit on
the porch, and supervise ^_^
(that's a joke, guys!...I'm really the designated Go-For...)
Anneke Henderson - Houston (West University)
76 Birchaven - custom
