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Two Houston homeowners are seeking answers after a municipal water tank burst, flooding their homes. With insurance claims denied and the utility district citing government immunity, they may need ...
East Aldine is a state management district in Harris County, Texas, United States, mostly in unincorporated areas, with some territory in the City of Houston. The East Aldine Improvement District, also known as the Aldine Management District, governs the area. Portions of the district coincide with the boundaries of the Aldine census-designated ...
The main commercial arteries of the district are Bellaire Boulevard and Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59. [2] The management district government estimates that the district is 15 minutes driving time from Downtown Houston. [8] The district has about 8,000 single-family houses and 7,000 condominiums and townhouses. [2]
District F serves areas in southwestern Houston. [14] As of 2011 District F has a significant Vietnamese American community, [41] and as of 2013 the Vietnamese are more politically active than the Hispanic majority. [42] District F includes much of the Alief area, [15] Westchase, [42] other areas in Southwest Houston, Briarmeadow, Tanglewilde. [15]
Bob Lanier Public Works Building is a 410 ft (125 m) tall skyscraper in Houston, Texas. It was completed in 1968 and has 27 floors. It is the 41st tallest building in the city. Eero Saarinen's CBS Building in New York City inspired the design for this building. It was named after Houston mayor Bob Lanier who served between 1992 and 1998.
Sunnyside, the oldest African-American community in southern Houston, was first platted in 1912. [5] When the community opened in the 1910s, H. H. Holmes, the founder, gave the land the name Sunny Side. [6] By the 1940s area residents established a water district and a volunteer fire department. The City of Houston annexed Sunnyside in 1956. [5]
They include: the Harris County Sheriff's Office, the Harris County Constable Office, the Houston Police Department, METRO Police Department, other municipal police departments, and school district police departments. [58] The combined yearly sum spent by these agencies circa 2018 was $1.6 billion.
In 2005 Houston City Council Member Mark Goldberg and Jim Myers, head of the nonprofit group Southwest Houston 2000 Inc., lobbied the state government, asking the state to create what was originally called the Fondren Ranch Management District. [6] In June 2005 the 79th Texas Legislature created the Brays Oaks Management District in the area. [7]