East Montrose
My old neighborhood
Just under a year ago, I lived on West Gray between Taft and Montrose in the area described by this article in the Chron, right across the street from Cecil's Pub and just down from Biba's greek pizza.
It's not bad coverage of the neighborhood and issues (I never realized there was a neighborhood email network), and it's nice to see the Chron engaged in some local reporting as it prepares for new leadership.
A couple of aspects of the story are just silly, though. For one, the neighborhood's rejecting a halfway house for sex offenders is HARDLY evidence that the area has lost its tolerance of diversity, as the article implies. That's just silly moral equivalence that I expect from unthinking journalists. And it's too bad the story pushes the tired old central planning/zoning mantra that has been rejected by Houstonians. It's great that lots of people like the open, Bohemian nature of Montrose, but if someone wants a closed-off townhouse that makes her impervious to such problems as the Kwanzaa Crash, that's fine with me also.
Still, it's kind of an interesting read -- though the Houston Press typically does a much better job with these sorts of stories.
[Posted at 23:24 CST on 05/11/02] [Link]
