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Reduce Flooding: Livable Places Initiative Would Create Higher Density in Flood-Prone Areas

First in a series on the Houston Planning Commission’s Livable Places Initiative On 6/8/23, the City of Houston Planning Commission approved an initiative called Livable Places that it has worked on since early 2020. Goals include creating a more affordable, walkable and equitable City. Planning Commission Website All laudable goals! However, the goals do not […]

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Reduce Flooding: The Future that Houston Envisioned for 1990 … in 1968

1968 … the year that humans first traveled around the moon during the Apollo 8 mission. It was a triumphant time for America and Houston, home of the NASA ā€œManned Spacecraft Center,ā€ its name at the time. We could do anything, it seemed. And we did. 1968 Plan for 1990 A reader recently sent me […]

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