METREAUX should not be risking taxpayer resources by becoming a "developer" as it was not in the last Mission statement I looked at.

Try restoring the service you slashed, since 2004, to the poor, minority, elderly, and handicapped (Handicapped has not yet been purged from the non-politically correct dictionary!) bus transit dependent riders throughout the service area.

ZONING has been defeated several times by voters.  Which part of NO do the bureaucrats not understand?

We don't want zoning in the sense of "people live here", "businesses sit here". We want mixed-use.

But we want better land use and urban form regulations. We actually have these already. They're just outmoded and wrong. They drive us to build inappropriately.

Peter Wang,

The inept bureaucracies fail us all the time yet they continually want to tell us how to live our lives while they usually exempt themselves.

P.S. I was behind you as you cleared the METREAUX security station before the last BOD meeting.  I recognized you by your "biker" paraphernalia.

Mary Sit said;

"Every decade, Houston grows by one million people."

Very incorrect and deceptive statement!

Based on that, we had no people 25 years ago.

Also, based on the US Census statistics, Houston gained 323,078 people from 1990-2000.

The meeting and most discussions are on the inner city core area and Houston proper, not the total "Greater Houston area".

I will be curious also to see how many people went to the meeting as well as what they special interest(s) were/are.

I got an email this morning that said that there were only a few people there.

many of also are offended that czar Wilson is now talking like a developer rather than simply a service company leader who is not supposed to get into the real estate business.

As for zoning and the demands made to try and change Houston to fit what a few think is better, why then are so many people moving to the "greater" Houston are from such well zoned places?

This reader would be more interested in what people "think" Houston shopuld be, when they actually MOVE into the denser areas and try living their.  Example leads to proof of commitment.  

This is especially critical (to do) for those with small children who require public (not private) education.

How about this:  Just change the city charter (COH) where one's deed restrictions are codified under law.  BUT, there must be a way for those in the neighborhood change those restrictions, and get a chance to vote on them.  That way there can be a ballance between control and change.  And it would be easier and cheaper for the citizens and the COH to enforce the restrictions.  PS:  READ THE RESTRICTIONS BEFORE YOU BUY OR RENT.  DON'T LIKE, THEN LOOK SOMEWHERE ELSE!

>>As for zoning and the demands made to try and change Houston to fit what a few think is better, why then are so many people moving to the "greater" Houston are from such well zoned places?

Much of Houston is still zoned.  If you live in West U, Bellaire, the Woodlands, Pearland, the Villages, Sugar Land, Katy, etc. etc. - you probably live in an area which is either zoned or is a "master-planned community" which is basically the same thing.  And many people also move to areas with strong deed restrictions.

I'm with Peter though - I don't necessarily want Euclidian zoning which separates uses, but I do want form-based code, which is basically just another type of zoning anyway.

Even in areas without deed restrictions, parking requirements, setback rules, and the like basically amount to zoning - not Euclidian, but restrictive and counterproductive to urbanization nonetheless.