Stucco said:
I should have been more clear. I don't see a problem with the City Council resolution and vote.
Cannot argue with that, if CoCS does not benefit from the state's tax break then some other community will.
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Cannot argue with that, if CoCS does not benefit from the state's tax break then some other community will.
Bob Yancy said:doubledog said:happyinBCS said:
is this a HUD section 8 property
Not in the KBTX articles (surprised!). Maybe Bob will chime in and tell us.
It is not. It's a different program. I'd like to refer everyone to Kenny Elliot's op/ed in today's Eagle. It's a great piece. The only thing he leaves out is the role my beloved city is playing via regulations and fees that is, in my opinion, making our housing market tougher than it has to be.
Respectfully
Yancy '95
Bob what is this different program and is it similar to HUD section 8.
doubledog said:Stucco said:
I should have been more clear. I don't see a problem with the City Council resolution and vote.
Cannot argue with that, if CoCS does not benefit from the state's tax break then some other community will.
Someone needs to say it.
I will bet you a Coke that our Police department wishes that tax break would go to another community. It's past time to start looking past the end of our nose.
hopeandrealchange said:doubledog said:Stucco said:
I should have been more clear. I don't see a problem with the City Council resolution and vote.
Cannot argue with that, if CoCS does not benefit from the state's tax break then some other community will.
Someone needs to say it.
I will bet you a Coke that our Police department wishes that tax break would go to another community. It's past time to start looking past the end of our nose.
My wife and I and our first born child lived in HUD housing in North Las Vegas, Nevada in 1986.
Respectfully
Yancy '95
Bob Yancy said:hopeandrealchange said:doubledog said:Stucco said:
I should have been more clear. I don't see a problem with the City Council resolution and vote.
Cannot argue with that, if CoCS does not benefit from the state's tax break then some other community will.
Someone needs to say it.
I will bet you a Coke that our Police department wishes that tax break would go to another community. It's past time to start looking past the end of our nose.
My wife and I and our first born child lived in HUD housing in North Las Vegas, Nevada in 1986.
Respectfully
Yancy '95
As long as we are transparent on all issues. Southgate village apartments, in CoCS, is HUD. Also some of us remember the "projects" in Chicago, which was also HUD.
Nothing is wrong with HUD housing, or its equivalent, as long as our government remains transparent.
From what I have observed this past year first hand, is that there seems to be only one, maybe two members of City Council who are serious about transparency.
So much so, that when one member alerted the community about a 300 acre datacenter project that had been hidden for months, that member was turned on by Senior City staff and other members of council for breaking that news here on TexAgs 18 hours before the city posted their own 1,000+ page agenda packet the Friday before they were going to vote it up or down the following Thursday. The city manager signed the NDA before some members of council even took their oaths of office.
Macy's? Don't get me started. Another back room deal. Overpaid by 2x, screwed a local businessman out of it. Then, we find out that city staff didn't even get anything in writing from A&M on esports….
*ALL* of the Macys drama only came to light after an open records request posted here. Again, zero transparency.
We need a city government that does more than give lip service to transparency and good government. We don't have that right now.
So much so, that when one member alerted the community about a 300 acre datacenter project that had been hidden for months, that member was turned on by Senior City staff and other members of council for breaking that news here on TexAgs 18 hours before the city posted their own 1,000+ page agenda packet the Friday before they were going to vote it up or down the following Thursday. The city manager signed the NDA before some members of council even took their oaths of office.
Macy's? Don't get me started. Another back room deal. Overpaid by 2x, screwed a local businessman out of it. Then, we find out that city staff didn't even get anything in writing from A&M on esports….
*ALL* of the Macys drama only came to light after an open records request posted here. Again, zero transparency.
We need a city government that does more than give lip service to transparency and good government. We don't have that right now.
Who run Barter Town?
maroon barchetta said:
How many small living units could be constructed inside Macy's?
Actually, the Macy's building would make a great apartment complex. At 103,000 SF and if you put about fifty to sixty 1,000 SF 2/2 apartments in it it might work, Being a masonry non-combustible building with a sprinkler system, there would be little fire risk,
woodiewood1 said:maroon barchetta said:
How many small living units could be constructed inside Macy's?
Actually, the Macy's building would make a great apartment complex. At 103,000 SF and if you put about fifty to sixty 1,000 SF 2/2 apartments in it it might work, Being a masonry non-combustible building with a sprinkler system, there would be little fire risk,
Being the one to suggest it, I suggest we go with the name options of:
Maroon Barchetta Villas
College Station Pod Station (small modular apartments, stacked in there Tokyo style)
Aggieland Living: Tokyo Drift
Macy's Manor
Fawlty Towers: College Station