BUCKHEAD INVESTMENT PARTNERS, the group hoping to develop a mixed-use high-rise property at 1717 Bissonnet (the so-called Ashby high-rise) sued the City of Houston today (KRIV-26, Chronicle).
The Chronicle story ends in a curious manner:
The dispute over the project came to symbolize land-use controversy in Houston, the nation’s only major city without zoning, and led to the creation of a political action committee aimed at preserving a business environment friendly to developers.
Is that how the group describes itself, or is that more editorializing in a Chronicle news story? *gasp* A good editor would clean that up. Maybe the Chron story will “evolve.”
If this lawsuit gets very far, the testimony over the city’s (ab)use of an archaic driveway ordinance to stop a development that bothered people with Bill White’s cell phone number ought to be entertaining!
