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To: tejek who wrote (133686)	2/27/2001 4:38:50 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 1571197

"The result is cities like Galveston where the downtowns are active and you can walk from place to place" In Galveston's case, it has more to do with it's heyday being in the late 19th century (everyone blames the Great Hurricane of 1900 for ruining the city) when it was the second largest port in the country. It was very affluent at the time, and it was built like a European city. Even now the architecture of the old houses are very ornate, and the city is very condensed. On the end where I lived, you could walk from Port Industrial (on the bay side) to Seawall (on the Gulf) in 10-15 minutes, depending on how daring you were crossing Broadway. There also were city ordnances that kept off-Island businesses out until the mid-60's or so, so there were a lot of mom and pop businesses scattered through out the city. The last of the mom and pops had died by the time I left the Island. "some good ole boy has some land he wants to makes some bucks off of so they rezoned the land and made it into Post Office Plaza " Dunno what this refers to, but since Houston doesn't do zoning it was other mechanism that got it there. I guess that land didn't have deed restrictions.

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