Strong Towns Houston
@StrongTownsHTX
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We advocate for safe streets, affordable housing, and livable communities.
Houston, TX
Joined March 2024
Important goals for Houston: - Eliminate lot size minimums - Eliminate parking minimums - Eliminate setback minimums - Eliminate the buffering ordinance - Reform overall building code (e.g. single-stair) - Reform the residential code (financing standards) - Reform permitting
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Houston’s downtown would suck a lot less if it wasn’t surrounded by big ass freeways in every direction.
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Suburban sprawl is a policy failure. Keep in mind that Detroit's population density is 4606/sq mi. Whereas Houston's is 3,400/sq mi. For all the troubles in Detroit, they have more people/sq mi to bear the financial burden of infrastructure compared to Houston.
Once one of Houston’s fastest-growing neighborhoods, Alief is now shrinking. Residents say the reasons go deeper than census numbers. https://t.co/V6cIIlPAqJ
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Car-dependency is a cancer. It festers and infects our cities, spiraling the inhabitants into an individualistic abyss bound by the confines of smog and concrete. https://t.co/Kb0uJJk25u
Why would anyone want to reduce the number of lanes on Memorial Parkway from 2 lanes to one lane? That would be the dumbest crap ever. Of course the progressive morons want it.
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Cool 2015 development in Houston: 12 townhouses oriented around a brick courtyard on a 30,000 square foot lot, and right next to a row of mansions.
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If you tried to do this in the US, everyone would just call it a “Boondoggle” and would refuse to build anything like it again. We need a mindset shift.
Tokyo Metro Tozai Line being built in early 1968, and what it looks like today. The station at the bottom right is Gyotoku station, just inside Chiba after having crossed from Tokyo. This section of the Metro is above ground. Edogawa river in the background.
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Yet another example of the ecological disaster caused by suburban sprawl. Even more evidence can be found by reading through the blog below from Bob Rehak of Kingwood: https://t.co/v5eOJWlWik
reduceflooding.com
Learn about factors that made flooding worse during Harvey than it needed to be in the upper Lake Houston area. This site also contains aerial images of sand deposits and sand mines, plus news and...
Paving over the Katy Prairie, 1984-2022. “But why does Houston always flood?!”
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Bob Rehak from Kingwood had a blog post covering this exact subject. A plan for 1990, envisioned in the 60s before suburban sprawl. The green loop in the image is now 99/Grand Parkway: https://t.co/pBc3QKFeb2
Connections create communities. Whitmire and City Council prioritize investment for cars. Dallas got 4 times as much funding from TxDOT to invest in infrastructure for people. Houstonians are badly governed.
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See how Houston's Parking Reform compares to other US cities using the link below: https://t.co/wsrBAMreD9
parkingreform.org
Explore how much land cities dedicate to parking in over 100 major cities with our Parking Lot Map. Click the drop-down in the upper-left corner to select a city, then use the pop-up information card…
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What is Parking Reform & why do we need it? It is a change in policy to manage parking supply more efficiently, such as with elimination of parking requirements. It is necessary to address various issues, like housing shortages, high costs, traffic congestion, and pollution.
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You know that suburban sprawl is problematic when even the suburbanites are complaining about the effects. What happens when "The Woodlands" loses all of it's trees? What happens when the Kingwood's "Livable Forest" is no more?
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Our current Administration is refusing to make our city better for pedestrians, and lies about it. @salinasforhtx @DwightBoykins
https://t.co/63iz4NPZYH
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Meanwhile as a city we’re ripping up safety improvements (including federally grant funded $), costing taxpayer $ to remove them, while other TX cities are receiving millions $ for the very improvements we’re eliminating. We’re wasting money and it’s killing Houstonians.
Westheimer, one of Houston’s most notable throughfares, has been named among the largest pedestrian death zones in an investigation by the Washington Post. The new report showed that vehicles hit and killed 36 people within a 3 ½ mile section of Westheimer on Houston's westside
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Houston City Hall should not be wasting time with scooter bans and roundabout removals. Instead, more effort is needed towards these incremental policies. Especially in light of the regional issues pertaining to housing affordability, flooding, infrastructure maintenance etc.
Legalize this in every city in America. - Incremental density infill - 6 story single-stair apartment building - Neighborhood retail - Mixed use This is the YIMBY dream.
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The car-dependent monstrosity poisons our air, destroys our natural ecosystems, segregates our communities, and increases the deaths of our fellow Houstonians. Yet the biggest concern is ... scooters.
Houston approved a new electric scooter curfew between 8m-4am. During city council, Mayor John Whitmire called scooters one of the city's no. 1 security risks. https://t.co/8TNgk2I9fW via @houstonchron
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It’s unfortunate Dallas is getting 4x the amount of money Houston is getting because Whitmire wants to keep Houston from getting 21st century infrastructure
The Texas Transportation Commission has approved nearly $285 million for bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure that will help improve safety, mobility, access and quality of life for people across the state. Read more: https://t.co/0qr9589ZOU
#TxDOTNewsroom
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I enjoyed walking with Emmanuel Nunez, Ruben Garza and Chris Mullins to discuss the opportunity Houston has to make our city safer and more accessible for all. As a City Councilmember, I will fight to achieve Vision Zero, and provide more transportation choices to every
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(2/2) An excellent case study can be seen with Seoul in South Korea. The elevated Cheonggye freeway was torn down, allowing restoration of a stream that cooled summer temperatures, and facilitated public gatherings/events: https://t.co/8CCI2M6tYu
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