Results tagged “communitydevelopment”

Last Thursday, city officials including Mayor White and Housing Director Richard Celli along with the Ibn Sina Foundation celebrated the opening of a new medical center at 11226 Wilcrest. The center houses a number of specialty medical clinics for low-income families as well as a pharmacy and dental clinic. The clinic, which takes up 5000 square feet, was funded by contributions from the city of Houston, Houston's Philanthropic Community, and Community Development Block Grant. At...

We are excited and giddy (ok, maybe just some of us are giddy) about the recent attention and preservation efforts to Houston's Historic Wards. Heck, they even have their own Wikipedia listing! (but then again so does your momma). And a continued step in the right direction, last week's City Council approval a six-month ban on demolition of historic buildings in the Old Sixth Ward area , the city's oldest intact 19th century neighborhood —...

Texas City is taking a different approach to curbing vicious dog attacks: Starting May 6, tying dogs to stationary objects will be against the law. According to officials, restraining dogs makes them aggressive, which in turn can lead to attacks: [Community development director George] Fuller, who authored the ordinance that city commissioners approved Wednesday, said he’s always thought tying up dogs was humane. But it wasn’t until he saw a recent study that linked confined...

Catching up with City Council activity this week: On Wednesday, councilmembers voted to approve $100,000 in funding for a day-labor site in the Second Ward, a proposal that sparked a debate in council over the last two weeks. Some councilmembers opposed using the money, part of a Community Development Block Grant, to fund the day-labor site because they said some of the people using the site might be illegal immigrants and it would be illegal...

City Council on Wednesday delayed a vote again on renewing federal funding to a Second Ward day-labor site after some citizens claimed funding the facility was a violation of federal law. The debate started last week when some councilmembers expressed concern over the best use of the $100,000 from the Community Development Block Grant — particularly the honey-maned Shelley Sekula Gibbs, who has supported day-labor sites in the past but did a 180 on the...

It's time to put an end to those visions of sugarplums that have been dancing in your head all weekend — instead, let's talk about everyone's favorite topic: urban sprawl! The Chronicle reported Monday that some planners believe there may be almost no open space left in Harris County in 30 years. That's based partly on those 2 million people expected to move into the county by 2035 (3.5 million in the metro area) and partly — mostly, perhaps — on Houstonians' love of low-density living, office parks and strip malls: