Property owners should have their own say on their own property. There was no restrictions when I purchased my property and that is the way it should be. NO RESTRICTIONS
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Elbert Johnson
9 years ago
This whole process has been a classic example of corrupt, government overreach. The least you can do is allow property owners to vote on the guidelines.
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Phil Strong
9 years ago
Outrageous!! I want to remove historical status.
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Michael Daley
9 years ago
Citizens living with in the area being impacted by the guidelines should be given the ability to vote on whether they want the guidelines or not. We should have another vote. Also, do these guidelines violate any current Texas property owners laws?
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Mark Standridge
9 years ago
These guidelines are not what we signed up for when we voted several years ago. We need no have another vote.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
This is against Texas property owners law.
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Ellen Mallman
9 years ago
While I don't live in the historic district, I do live adjacent to it, and these guidelines will not only effect the district, but all of those of us living near it. While I am a big supporter of historic preservation, all the other comments are correct, you can't have people opt in to something with out knowing what they are opting into. There needs to be another vote now that the guidelines have been made public.
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Tracy ENGLET
9 years ago
Please let us vote on the new restrictions.
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Richard A Alvarado
9 years ago
This issue is too important to have transparency set aside!!
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Mari Gianukos Veldekens
9 years ago
The inability to improve your home in a meaningful to make it a modern sustainable home for a family constitutes a taking by the City Government, The City Council and previous Mayor stole our property rights using unfair means that did not meet due process under the law. The current guidelines create an even worse situation for homeowners who never agreed to be in the historic district in the first place. Stop the insanity. These are our homes and we should have the right to a decent-sized home with all the modern conveniences.
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Brigette Larson
9 years ago
While I don't live in the Historic District (because I voted against it for this very reason - I didn't trust the process), I want the City to understand and please listen to their residents. These guidelines basically highjack people's property, which in most cases, can be someone's biggest asset. Changing the guidelines and making it more restrictive AFTER asking people to vote for a historic district is equivalent to taking people's property rights away from them. It is pretty shocking that this has been allowed to happen.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
In a democracy we should have a vote.
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Christopher Frantz
9 years ago
Please put new proposed restrictions to a vote of the actual residents, rather than the whim of bureaucrats...
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Robert B Schultz III
9 years ago
I think these proposed design guidelines have over stepped their authority. Don't destroy my prooperty value!
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Susan Prospere
9 years ago
I don't think it is fair to impose restrictions when others did not have to abide by the same thing.
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Paul Fruge
9 years ago
The design guidelines, as submitted, severely limits the adaptability of the historic home and severely limits new construction plans to accommodate the modern family. These guidelines also adversely effect the values, use and/or marketability of the historic homes which have not been modernized. The diminution of value is unfair to those owners of unmodernized homes and the severely restrictive nature of the changes to the historic ordinance will inhibit the desirability and livability of the neighborhood as it now exists.
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Debbie Russell
9 years ago
We should have had the opportunity to review the guidelines before we voted to for the historic district.
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Matthew Johnson
9 years ago
The way that the historic districts were voted used a shamefully flawed system by which everyone was opt-ed in by default. This was laughably undemocratic. Any system by which people are opt-ed in by default is a borderline scam. Give the residents of Historic Houston the vote they deserve. No taxation without representation!
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Randy Johnson
9 years ago
These guidelines are hurting people who have old structures that are not historically significant because they are not allowed to tear the structures down to create a vacant lot. There is at least a $50,000 difference in price between a vacant lot in the Heights and one with a "historic" structure. The 90-day tear down rule that was in place when the historic ordinance first passed needs to be reinstated. Moreover, the new guidelines are overly restrictive.
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Oriol Foz
9 years ago
We are all about preservation but this is way to much. My wife and I were looking forward to one day start the process to expand our beautiful bungalow with a reasonable addition that would comply with the current (already strict) ordinance but these guidelines would simply force us to sell and move. We really don't want to be yet another "young" family moving out of the Heights. If that has to be the case, at least let it be after a fair democratic process.
Property owners should have their own say on their own property. There was no restrictions when I purchased my property and that is the way it should be. NO RESTRICTIONS
This whole process has been a classic example of corrupt, government overreach. The least you can do is allow property owners to vote on the guidelines.
Outrageous!! I want to remove historical status.
Citizens living with in the area being impacted by the guidelines should be given the ability to vote on whether they want the guidelines or not. We should have another vote. Also, do these guidelines violate any current Texas property owners laws?
These guidelines are not what we signed up for when we voted several years ago. We need no have another vote.
This is against Texas property owners law.
While I don't live in the historic district, I do live adjacent to it, and these guidelines will not only effect the district, but all of those of us living near it. While I am a big supporter of historic preservation, all the other comments are correct, you can't have people opt in to something with out knowing what they are opting into. There needs to be another vote now that the guidelines have been made public.
Please let us vote on the new restrictions.
This issue is too important to have transparency set aside!!
The inability to improve your home in a meaningful to make it a modern sustainable home for a family constitutes a taking by the City Government, The City Council and previous Mayor stole our property rights using unfair means that did not meet due process under the law. The current guidelines create an even worse situation for homeowners who never agreed to be in the historic district in the first place. Stop the insanity. These are our homes and we should have the right to a decent-sized home with all the modern conveniences.
While I don't live in the Historic District (because I voted against it for this very reason - I didn't trust the process), I want the City to understand and please listen to their residents. These guidelines basically highjack people's property, which in most cases, can be someone's biggest asset. Changing the guidelines and making it more restrictive AFTER asking people to vote for a historic district is equivalent to taking people's property rights away from them. It is pretty shocking that this has been allowed to happen.
In a democracy we should have a vote.
Please put new proposed restrictions to a vote of the actual residents, rather than the whim of bureaucrats...
I think these proposed design guidelines have over stepped their authority. Don't destroy my prooperty value!
I don't think it is fair to impose restrictions when others did not have to abide by the same thing.
The design guidelines, as submitted, severely limits the adaptability of the historic home and severely limits new construction plans to accommodate the modern family. These guidelines also adversely effect the values, use and/or marketability of the historic homes which have not been modernized. The diminution of value is unfair to those owners of unmodernized homes and the severely restrictive nature of the changes to the historic ordinance will inhibit the desirability and livability of the neighborhood as it now exists.
We should have had the opportunity to review the guidelines before we voted to for the historic district.
The way that the historic districts were voted used a shamefully flawed system by which everyone was opt-ed in by default. This was laughably undemocratic. Any system by which people are opt-ed in by default is a borderline scam. Give the residents of Historic Houston the vote they deserve. No taxation without representation!
These guidelines are hurting people who have old structures that are not historically significant because they are not allowed to tear the structures down to create a vacant lot. There is at least a $50,000 difference in price between a vacant lot in the Heights and one with a "historic" structure. The 90-day tear down rule that was in place when the historic ordinance first passed needs to be reinstated. Moreover, the new guidelines are overly restrictive.
We are all about preservation but this is way to much. My wife and I were looking forward to one day start the process to expand our beautiful bungalow with a reasonable addition that would comply with the current (already strict) ordinance but these guidelines would simply force us to sell and move. We really don't want to be yet another "young" family moving out of the Heights. If that has to be the case, at least let it be after a fair democratic process.