Latest Notices & Other Stuff
We have invited each of the District G Election Candidates to post on their own page on this website. Here is the contact information for each, in alphabetical order, and a link to their page:
Tony Buzbee | 600 Travis Street, Suite 7500, Houston, TX 77002 | phone: 713-223-5393 | email: tbuzbee@txattorneys.com
An Update has been Posted on Tony Buzbee’s page
Mary Nan Huffman | 1 Greenway Plaza, Unit 225, Houston, TX, 77098 | phone: 832-200-3420 or 713-526-3399 | email: marynan@marynanhuffman.com
Enyinna O. Isiguzo | phone: 713-730-9865 | email: ochiwoo22@gmail.com LINK TO PAGE
Drainage Problems at “Six at Memorial”
Monday, August 7th, 2023
email to James Rains, Chief of Staff to Mary Nan Huffman, District G Council Member:
To: James C. Rains, MPA – Chief of Staff – Office of Council Member Mary Nan Huffman – Houston City Council, District G
Hello James, Could you provide an update on progress on the Addicks-Howell drainage system between your office, COH and TXDOT.
Thank You,
Read the Rest of the Story….
Storm of July 6th, 2023
Read On….
Looming Traffic Problems
As more and more multi-family developments rise up around us, we believe the traffic impact will be significant. The City of Houston Public Works, as stated in their TIAs (Traffic Impact Studies), state there will be no significant impact to traffic in our area.
Public Works advise that they will be installing concrete islands at Addicks Howell & Memorial, to better control the traffic and so reduce accidents in what we all know to be a notorious vehicular accident area.
Public Works also say they will be including a crosswalk which will allow safe pedestrian crossings.
Read More….
Discussions With Mary Nan Huffman
August 3rd, 2022
email to Mary Nan Huffman, District G Council Member
Mary Nan,
I presume from your email that you have seen this petition content, but to avoid errors and omissions, below is the full text which will eventually come to you with signatories:
“The undersigned residents of Fleetwood, Memorial Thicket, Barkers Landing, Briar Hills, Marywood and Thornwood sub-divisions in West Houston are extremely concerned that THREE high-density housing units (“Memorial at Six” in the 800 Block of Addicks-Howell, “Caroline at Memorial” on the former Kickerillo property; and the Westlake 4 conversion to apartments) are being or have been permitted for construction, all of which will add to our already strained infrastructure:
Read on….
Legal Fund Update – October 9, 2023
After talks with FOUR law firms, we have been unable to move anything forward on a legal basis. The $22,790 raised – see Details – is far from the amount needed ($50,000 to $100,000) on which any firm is willing to move forward with any legal actions – the potential actions being one item, the necessary bonds and other anciliary items being quite another.
If anyone has any other ideas, we’re open to listen, but in the meantime, we will continue efforts to try to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear and aim to do something about what is undoubtedly going to be a nightmare scenario at Addicks Howell and Memorial if plans stay the way they are; and longer term, continue efforts to ensure these tax-exempt properties become unlawful. In the meantime, think twice about voting Yes on any City of Houston and Katy bond issues.
All but one contributor should now have received a refund from unspent funds. If you did not receive a refund, please contact us at westhoustoninfoweb@gmail.com with your email address.
Upcoming Developments in the Memorial-Addicks Howell Area
The known developments are:
- Six at Memorial (Allied-Orion)
- Caroline at Memorial (Morgan Group)
- Westlake Complex
- Addicks-Howell adjacent to Wolfe Elementary and the restaurants
- A new Development across Hwy. 6 from Six at Memorial
- Extension to Eagle’s Trace
Read On….
Tuesday June 6th – City of Houston – Public Works
– see Deny Request for Public Meeting
Sound Familiar?
Public Information Request, Texas-GLO – October 22nd, 2022
A Public Information Request has been placed with the PIA Legal Office of the Community Development and Revitalization, Texas General Land Office (George P. Bush, Commissioner) after receiving an initial reply.
How to Contribute to the Battle Fund
Contributions can be made through your own subdivision Rep (listed here on the Battle Fund Page) or directly to Sarah Truby on that same page
The Rally to STOP the Developments
Report on the Rally to STOP the Apartment Developments – Saturday, October 1st, 2022
Thank you to all who came out to support this effort on Saturday Oct. 1st. Counts from photos and videos show between 140 & 150 attended. A video will be made available shortly.
A special thanks to all our speakers yesterday:
- Wayne Dolcefino – Introductions
- Mary Nan Huffman – Comments on her newsletter and meetings with Morgan Group
- Bob Rossen – Flooding History
- John Culberson – TX-DOT Permit Status
- John Cabiness – Increasing Flood Risk
- Aubrey Haines – Development and Traffic Problems
- Janis Mecklenburg – School Bus aspects
- Randy Crump – Tax Aspects
- Angie Bouzerand – COH, HHA and Lakeside Place Corruption
As was demonstrated at the Rally, this effort will continue. It is not bound to fail, as is being broadcast, but if does fails it will not be for lack of trying by a small group of involved and concerned citizens. Among others, the efforts going forward include:
- Houston City Council – presentations there in the immediate future, at which we hope for great support as we had at the first HHA Meeting;
- Working with Mary Nan Huffman, who explained that she passed on the Morgan Group points verbatim, which many took to mean she was endorsing. Mary Nan was vehement in pointing out this is not the case, and she will continue to strongly support this effort.
- TX-DOT – the Addicks developer does not have a TX-DOT drainage permit at this time, without which, construction cannot proceed
- City of Houston – Engineering & Traffic Departments – there is no viable traffic plan in place to meet the additional 1,000 anticipated additional vehicles. The two current TIA’s (Traffic Impact Studies) are woefully inadequate, neither of which take into account the other, or the Westlake variance to multi-family housing.
- Meeting with attorneys this week to assess causes and standings.
Longer term, the corruption in the City Council, Houston Housing Authority, Lakeside Place PFC, and the misuse of CBDG-DR funds by HHA (allocated for post-flood rebuilding efforts), are all being addressed; as is the tax-exemption by the City of Houston on the six properties within KISD – this is being addressed legislatively, in the 2023 session, too late to be effective with these developments.
We anticipate actions in the near future which will require more funds than have been contributed ($20,000+ so far), and we hope our younger neighbors and everybody in surrounding subdivisions will step up and help, before Memorial becomes a traffic nightmare in the Addicks Howell area, including being down to two lanes at the Highway 6 intersection, and with no easy access to the coffee there, except for smelling it.
Email to COH Engineering & Traffic – September 28th, 2022
Gentlemen,
I am referring to your email thread below, and the two TIA documents and schematic attached.
The TIA (Traffic Impact Assessment) for Caroline at Memorial is confusing to say the least. The cover letter refers to a completely different property in the header (“The Intersection of West Dallas Avenue and Montrose Boulevard”) which even more gives the impression of a boilerplate answer. The Executive Summary makes the Recommendation that “Traffic impacts to the surrounding roadway are minimal and approval is recommended” and the recommendation for the 816 Addicks Howell Road Study is solely “to construct sidewalks”.
These are ridiculous final recommendations, given as they are that each TIA is taken in isolation from each other, and as previously noted, take no account of the increased traffic loads that will be imposed on the Memorial Drive-Addicks Howell Road and Hwy. 6 intersections, resulting from almost 1,000 new residences including the Westlake Variance to Multi-family residence. That will add at least a similar number of vehicles, school buses exiting and entering Addicks Howell, and multiple delivery and trash vehicles. As we have previously noted to you, there have been (as recorded by TXDOT records of Peace Officers Reports) 620 vehicular accidents in the HWY6/Addicks & Eldridge corridor between 2015-2022, of which NINE WERE FATAL. Five of those fatalities took place in 2021 alone. The majority of those killed were pedestrians and cyclists. Overall, the two complexes will add a major load to the already congested Energy Corridor roads and highways, which, as the fatalities demonstrate, lack adequate infrastructure even now.
The children from these two developments would be at risk of further increasing traffic fatalities as both would be required to cross Memorial Drive to walk to Wolfe Elementary.
This subject will be addressed in great detail at the rally on Saturday, which will be attended by local TV and press media, and which will be located exactly where the congestion and accidents will occur if this development is allowed to proceed. Given that there is not yet even a workable solution to traffic flow in the Addicks Howell-Memorial Drive area (See schematic attached), we encourage you again to call a halt to the Hwy. 6 at Memorial development, so that we can at least explain that the City of Houston is seriously reviewing this ludicrous development. Of course, you are welcome to send representatives to the rally, and also speak if you so wish.
SIncerely, Steve Wormald
For The Steering Committee – West Houston Multi-Family Developments
Website: WestHouston.info
eMail: westhoustoninfoweb@gmail.com
Responses to Petition and Personal Contacts
Telling it Like it is….
Wayne Dolcefino Testifying at the State Senate in Austin
September 14th, 2022
(Wayne was already set to testify, this is not on our dime…)
Work has started on Caroline at Memorial (Kickerillo)
Work is now underway on BOTH development projects – Six at Memorial (Addicks Howell) and Caroline at Memorial (Kickerillo).
Fleetwood and Fleetwood West subdivisions (“Fleetwood”) have stepped up with loans totaling $5,000 to contract with Dolcefino Consulting to initiate a politically-based media campaign, which we hope will provide breathing space until greater funds can be raised while we work on the basis for a legal campaign</p>Several avenues are being followed, and we will need a significant fund if we are to be able to retain legal assistance, and this consulting contract will shine a significant spotlight on the two development activities. We ask that all the residents of the subdivisions listed in the Petition – Fleetwood, Fleetwood West, Memorial Thicket, Barkers Landin, Briar Hills, Marywood, Fleetwood Village, Thornwood, Broken Bayou and Briar Park – join with Fleetwood in raising funds within your respective constituencies. Success in this combined effort will be necessary to have any chance of success by legal means.
Here’s a link to the Dolcefino page; and information on how to help with fundraising and contribute HERE
Videos of all the HHA speakers are on the HHA page, courtesy of Dolcefino Consulting
The residents of Fleetwood, Fleetwood West, Memorial Thicket, Barkers Landing, Briar Hills, Marywood, Fleetwood Village, Thornwood, Broken Bayou and Briar Park sub-divisions in West Houston are extremely concerned that two high-density housing units (“Memorial at Six” in the 800 Block of Addicks-Howell, “Caroline at Memorial” on the former Kickerillo property) are being or have been permitted for construction, all of which will add to our already strained infrastructure.
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