Posted on 09/04/2017 10:24:01 AM PDT by Lorianne
He went after potholes in Houston in his first year. Not flooding.
He went after something he knew people might see. Punted on flooding. Kicked the can on bailing out the pensions.
Now “we” are changing street names like Dowling and having a panel look into which statues need to come down.
Doesn’t care that property taxes are hurting people either. Wants to raise taxes.
Same around here. Contractors and just ask 'em know-it-alls have turned "sustainability" into something totally bizarre that is anything but. Contractors get to maximize their profits by paving everything and building multi-story nightmares.
We have this problem in OH. The "smart growth" libs don't even seem to realize that they're tools for contractors whose only goal is to maximize profits.
Now they are selling 400-sq-ft room micro-efficiency “condos” downtown in big office towers for $140,000.
Maximizes profit. Resale value not so much.
the hollowing out of the central core was caused by subsidized mass motoring
not the other way around
Being in the business world taught me the concept of Return On Investment (ROI). In the Army we called this Reinforcing Success.
You always try to get the most return/profit on what you invest.
The people of Houston will have to decide whether they got the best ROI on their votes and tax money with this Mayor.
We’ll see if Houston’s broken funding for pensions affects other parts of the city budget.
Here’s a hint.....it will.
Federal flood insurance shouldn’t exist. Private insurers make their own decisions. Those decisions aren’t yours to make. Flood insurance is a statist measure that, like all statist measures, exacerbates problems rather than fixing them. As for your environmental blather, the coastal plain has always flooded, with or without people. The flooding was massive when very few people lived in the Houston area, and this was more water than we’ve ever seen. As has been pointed out, 50” would flood ANY city. People are fragile, not the Texas environment...it will kill you given half a chance.
Building in low-elevation flood plains near oceans is a real bad idea.
But isn’t this pretty much any port city?
(ie: overbuilding in low elevation flood plains)
I don't know if there are any shore areas that protect fragile environments.
A Pacific hurricane hitting the Baja area was a plot device on The Love Boat many years ago.
That is why Houston is called the Bayou City, because of the vast network of flood channels that direct run off into Galveston Bay. Have one right behind my house as a matter of fact.
Idiot!
Well, you’re nothing if you’re not creative, and you’re not creative, so I guess that makes you nothing.
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