Houston City Council voted Wednesday to purchase 73.08 acres (3,183,410 square feet) of land from the City of West University Place along the 9700 block of Ruffino Road for $10,509,460. The land, located along the southern bank of Keegan’s Bayou, will be used for the Ruffino Stormwater Detention Project and represents a significant step in [...]
Please join us on Saturday, April 30 at 10:00 a.m. for a public open house at Westbury High School's auditorium on the Gasmer Drive side of the campus for a presentation of the Master Plan for the Gasmer Drive Property Redevelopment (formerly owned by Shell Oil) adjacent to the Willow Waterhole Greenspace. Parking is available in the Gasmer Drive [...]
County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and Council Member Edward Pollard cut a ribbon today with representatives of the Brays Oaks Management District, community organization leaders and former Council Member Mike Laster (second from left) to celebrate the paved Brays Oaks Bike Trail that connects the Keegans Bayou trail to the residential neighborhood containing Willow Meadow Drive. Ellis and [...]
The City of Houston Planning and Development Department is considering allowing more than two dwelling units per single-family residential lot to encourage a variety of housing types. Please answer the following questions regarding this idea before July 31, 2021. Take the Survey
HOUSTON — The Brays Oaks Management District in southwest Houston will kick off its Livable Centers Study — aimed at improving neighborhood walkability, transit options, environmental quality and economic development — with an in-person public workshop on Thursday, June 24, 2021, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m at India House, 8888 W Bellfort Ave. All presentation [...]
Stakeholder Meeting Notice on Capital Project: Fondren Rd. Paving and Drainage - Braeswood to Creekbend & Creekbend to W. Airport October 6, 2020 2:00pm to 3:00pm To join the meeting on Tue. Oct 6, 2020 at 2pm, please click on the link below, scroll down to the project “Fondren Rd Paving and Drainage Stakeholder Meeting, [...]
The Brays Oaks Management District has engaged its consultant, M2L Associates to begin the preparation of a Streetscape and Wayfinding Master Plan for the District. To gather important base and opinion data, we request that you please complete the questionnaire by September 1st. Thank you and the District appreciates your feedback. Take the Survey [...]
By J.D. Herman There is a certain beauty when good intentions and hard work, combine for positive results. Plant It Forward is a growing success story of a great idea coming to fruition in Southwest Houston. The nonprofit started in 2011, by the brother and sister team Pat and Teresa O’Donnell, looked to make urban [...]
Detour and construction signs should start going up MONDAY, JUNE 1st, on the main and side streets around Hillcroft and Braeswood in preparation of the JUNE 15th closing of the bridge. The bridge will be closed for approximately 90 days. Not only will north/south travel across the bridge be nonexistent during the 90 project period, but east/west traffic will [...]
Grab your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors for this one day community-wide clean-up and beautification event helping to make Houston a cleaner, greener, more beautiful place to live, work and play! Register as a team, or as an individual and be placed on a designated KHB Team. This is a family and youth friendly [...]
