Bunk Moreland said:

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Such a bad idea. Go ahead and kill the Northgate district, COCS.

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These are private complexes being built on private property. How could the COCS stop them w/o spending the next decade in court?

Beautiful day today, so took this picture of the emerging skyline. This captures four of the five cranes currently up. A sixth crane is on the way soon for the View at 203 project.

Development restrictions through ordinances

I know there are a bunch of folks that don't like these high rises, but I think it is great for the students if they can afford it. They are basically on-campus, no commute from the thousands of far off-campus facilities being built in SoCo, and keeps traffic down from what would otherwise be worse with more students driving to class each day.

Burn-It said:

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I know there are a bunch of folks that don't like these high rises, but I think it is great for the students if they can afford it. They are basically on-campus, no commute from the thousands of far off-campus facilities being built in SoCo, and keeps traffic down from what would otherwise be worse with more students driving to class each day.

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Up until CoCS wants to put a giant sewer line down the middle of your street because current infrastructure can't handle eleventy-thousand more toilets in a small area.

maroon barchetta said:

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Burn-It said:

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I know there are a bunch of folks that don't like these high rises, but I think it is great for the students if they can afford it. They are basically on-campus, no commute from the thousands of far off-campus facilities being built in SoCo, and keeps traffic down from what would otherwise be worse with more students driving to class each day.

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Up until CoCS wants to put a giant sewer line down the middle of your street because current infrastructure can't handle eleventy-thousand more toilets in a small area.

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This guy gets it. In addition to the sewage issue, there's the strain of the road infrastructure in general, especially as students get "priced out" of Northgate and have to go farther to find housing, of the entire Northgate area as they look for places to shop and eat (Northgate has no real places to go shopping, even supermarkets), and the existing road network hasn't seen any major upgrades in the last 20 years. Even without the East Loop, things like finishing off Welsh to George Bush Drive, and upgrading Dartmouth and Munson into a four-lane road all the way from Harvey Mitchell Parkway South to University Drive East would make a tremendous difference.

maroon barchetta said:

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Burn-It said:

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I know there are a bunch of folks that don't like these high rises, but I think it is great for the students if they can afford it. They are basically on-campus, no commute from the thousands of far off-campus facilities being built in SoCo, and keeps traffic down from what would otherwise be worse with more students driving to class each day.

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Up until CoCS wants to put a giant sewer line down the middle of your street because current infrastructure can't handle eleventy-thousand more toilets in a small area.

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Ummmmm just so you know.....That's where giant sewer lines usually go

Growth has growing pains. It's called life. More people are born every day than people die, the population will continue to grow for BCS.

People would be a lot more upset around here if the population was declining. You don't want that.

Aggie_Fire said:

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maroon barchetta said:

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Not even close to the point I was making, City Manager.

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Well, I did respond to what you said....

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That rules you out as City Manager.

Extending Welsh would be a major project, and step on a lot of toes, with much wailing and gnashing of teeth. CoCS would have to eminent domain at least 5 or six properties to extend the road to Bush (coming out at the existing signal at Houston x Bush). In addition, they'd need to take 8-10' on each side of the existing roadway north of Holleman to accommodate bike lanes and a slightly wider roadway for cars.

I've only lived in BCS for under a decade, but nobody wails and gnashes their teeth like the folks who live immediately south and east of campus.

Something I noticed this morning: at least two of the new high rises - the one next to Chimy's, and one further in - are tall enough to require red warning lights on the top for aircraft. The Rise/Aspire don't appear to need those.

It definitely does make it less confusing. I didn't understand why, in a city with less than ten high-rises, they would name one the same as an existing one. Of course our two cities decided to both build new developments around the same time called Midtown Park, so creative naming may be at a minimum around here.

A few months back I posted about the Culpepper project having permitting in with the city to add an additional driveway entrance off of University for their project. The drive would connect up with the new Legacy Point Drive that goes out at College Ave. The application with the City referenced a grocery store and there was some discussion of what that meant and whether it was just an old reference to the former grocery store at the site.

Well, now we have a revised site plan from Culpepper. It has officially added the grocer to the site plans as well as the new entry point approved by the City. The square footage of the grocer is just 12,500 feet, meaning it is not a traditional grocer like HEB. A typical Trader Joes is around 12 - 14,000 square foot (just as a reference point )