HHA topics may be particularly interesting to EMCA homeowners this month.
If so, mark your calendars to attend the HHA meeting, on Monday, October 22,
2001!

Amy

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael S O'Brien <michael.o.brien3@worldnet.att.net>
To: <michael.o.brien3@worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: HHA UPDATE 10-14-01


> HHA UPDATE 10-14-01
>
> HHA GENERAL MEETING 10-22-01
> PREVAILING LOT SIZE AMENDMENT---PLANNING COMMISSION 10-18-01
> RICE UNIVERSITY---TROPICAL STORM ALLISON
>
> HHA GENERAL MEETING
>
> The next Houston Homeowners Association General Meeting is scheduled for
> Monday, October 22, 2001:
>
> SPEAKER:  George Dabney, Mayor's Office
> TOPIC:  Housing issues, particularly the plans for the forty-acre MDI site
> which is an EPA Super Fund
> WHERE:  First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main @ Bissonnet
> WHEN:  Monday, October 22, 2001
> ROOM:  Solarium
> TIME:  6:00 P.M.
>
> To find the Solarium---Enter through the Welcome Center at the top of the
> circular drive on the side facing the Museum of Fine Arts.  A HHA sign
will
> be on the door.  Turn left and proceed about fifty feet and you will be in
> the Solarium.
>
>
> PREVAILING LOT SIZE AMENDMENT---PLANNING COMMISSION 10-18-01
>
> THE PREVAILING LOT SIZE AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 42 IS OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE
TO
> INNER LOOP NEIGHBORHOODS!!!
>
> WHAT: Planning Commission Public Hearing
> DATE:   Thursday, October 18, 2001
> TIME:    2:30 P.M.
> WHERE:  City Hall Annex Council Chambers, 900 Bagby---Park behind the
Annex
> and enter
>  through the parking level doors.  As you pass through the metal detectors
> turn
>  left and the Council Chambers are at the end of the short hall.
>
> When the amended Chapter 42, Development Ordinance, was passed in March,
> 1999, the biggest change made was to divide the City into two parts,
> suburban-everything outside Loop 610 and urban-everything inside Loop 610.
> To create an urban area that was "denser" than the suburban area, the
> ordinance provided for smaller setbacks, smaller lot sizes and less
> compensating open space in the urban area.
>
> For those urban neighborhoods who did not have deed restrictions or whose
> deed restrictions did not address front setbacks, the amended Chapter 42
> provide the Special Building Line Requirement Area (Section 42-163, SBLRA)
> as help.  The SBLRA allows neighborhoods to petition the City to maintain
> their prevailing front setbacks.
>
> This proposed Prevailing Lot Size amendment to Chapter 42 will work
> basically like the SBLRA.
> To review the proposed Prevailing Lot Size amendment please check out the
> following address
>
> http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/departme/planning/Devp_rel.htm
>
> This will get you to the page titled Development Regulations.  Scroll down
> to the Proposed Prevailing Lot Size Amendment and click on where it says,
> "click here to view the proposed amendment".
>
> WE CAN NOT STRESS HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO HAVE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE URBAN
> AREA NEIGHBORHOODS ATTEND AND SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THE PROPOSED PREVAILING
> LOT SIZE AMENDMENT AT THIS PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING!!!
>
>
> RICE UNIVERSITY---TROPICAL STORM ALLISON
>
> TROPICAL STORM ALLISON - A BRAYS BAYOU EVENT
>  >
>  >What happened, why, and what can be done about future flooding?
>
> >
> >A ONE DAY CONFERENCE AT RICE UNIVERSITY
> >
> >13 November 2001
> >
> >http://www.rice.edu/flood
> >
> >Tropical Storm Allison formed quickly in the Gulf and arrived in
> >Houston on June 5th, 2001 causing serious flooding for several days.
> >On June 8-9, 2001, Allison returned with a vengeance to the central
> >Houston area, dropping more than 15 inches of rain near lower Brays
> >Bayou in just nine hours, and more than 10 inches of rain in three
> >hours at the Texas Medical Center. This massive flood event caused
> >over $2 billion in damages and flooded thousands of homes along
> >Brays Bayou. The damages in Harris County exceeded $5 billion. NOAA
> >classified Allison as one of the most damaging U.S. urban floods in
> >history.
> >
> >The one-day conference at Rice University is open to the public, and
> >designed to present facts and observations from the Allison flood,
> >explain how and why it occurred, and offer ideas on what can be done
> >in the future.  Conference speakers include representatives of the
> >National Weather Service, Harris County, the City of Bellaire, and
> >the Texas Medical Center, local academics, consultants, and
> >engineers, and local organizations.  The conference will focus on
> >the Brays Bayou Watershed area
> >http://st-helens.rice.edu/BraysFAS/Watershed_Description.htm.
> >Individuals, organizations, or businesses with property in this area
> >would benefit from the important information being discussed at this
> >conference.
> >
> >Seating is limited to 200, so please register early.
> >To register or for more information, please visit our web site at
> >http://www.rice.edu/flood or www.floodalert.org.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >Philip B.  Bedient
> >
> >Herman Brown Professor of Engineering
> >Civil and Environmental Engineering
> >Rice University
> >6100 Main St (MS 317)
> >Houston, Tx  77005
> >
> >Telephone   713 348-4953  Fax 713 348-5239
>
>
> Thanks
> Mike O'Brien, President
> Houston Homeowners Association
> 281-496-0752
> 281-496-6896 Fax
> michael.o.brien3@worldnet.att.net
>


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