At the Chron’s Houston Politics blog, Mike Snyder notes that Mayor White shared his vision of Houston in an interview on NPR:
Over the next 20 years, Houston will become a denser city where people won’t have to drive as much because they’re riding mass transit and living close to where they work and shop.
That might sound like a pie-in-the-sky prediction from a New Urbanist visionary, but it actually came from someone not known for flights of fancy: Mayor Bill White.
In an interview aired today on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, White said the high price of gasoline is increasing demand for urban mixed-use developments, which combine housing, retail and other amenities.
Unless the dense, mixed-use development is a certain high-rise on Bissonnet.
