One battle the city isn't interested in fighting
Remember when Mayor White got approval to spend $100,000 of taxpayer dollars to have Proposition 2 declared illegal, even though Prop. 2 was passed with 56 percent of the vote?
Well, the residents of one Houston neighborhood have discovered that Mayor White does have a bit of fiscal restraint in him, after all:
In a neighborhood called Candlelight Estates, garage sales are about the only thing that brings traffic. But what's about to happen on these streets has people around here worried.
"It's going to destroy the fabric of the neighborhood," says neighborhood activist Ray Bush.
It's a neighborhood that has a sort of border -- a big old ditch.
A developer wants to build a subdivision on a piece of vacant land. But first, he wants a bridge built across the ditch connecting his property to the nice houses over in Candlelight Estates. And for years now, the people in Candlelight Estates fought it.
Now Houston's mayor has sent neighborhood residents an e-mail saying in part, "I have been advised that the City of Houston cannot stop the building of the Rosslyn Street Bridge without substantial risk to taxpayers' money in a lawsuit against the City."
And so it appears the developer who owns this land will get his bridge.
So sorry, Candlelight Estates residents.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 06/11/05 05:41 PM | Print |
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