If a developer can do it, why not homeowners?
Some Houston residents are tired of their street being used as a shortcut by other drivers, and they have an idea how to stop it (via KHOU-11):
"To us it's very unsafe to have a car going 50 miles an hour next to our horses when we're walking,” said Arango.
His horses do get spooked when a driver veers off busy Westheimer and uses a long, narrow street as a cut-through.
"They come right up to the horse they are blowing the horn and then they speed up to 60 (mph) said Arango. “ This is a real safety issue and that's what it is all about."
But it's more than horses. About 100 homeowners on East and West Rivercrest have long worried that speeding cars here pose a danger to their children.
"We see a hazard,” said attorney George Fleming, who lives on Rivercrest. Neighbors picked him to offer the city a deal.
"A sale of the street. We'd purchase the street,” said Fleming.
The City of Houston would pick the price and the residents would turn the roads private.
A few blocks away, Michael Levy worries if the city lets one wealthy neighborhood buy a public street and put up gates at either end, it could start a trend.
How is this different from the city selling streets to developers?
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 09/19/07 04:58 AM | Print | Comments (8)
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