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View Poll Results: Which major Texas city is best prepared for growth?
Houston 41 39.42%
San Antonio 12 11.54%
DFW 37 35.58%
Austin 0 0%
Why is Austin in this thread? 14 13.46%
Voters: 104. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-12-2013, 05:40 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Duh!!!!!!!The more people the bigger the problem!!!....Growth= bigger population....Bigger population=bigger water demand smarty pants.
boi if you had half a brain you would be twice as smart as you are now. It states very clearly that the cities are listed by population. "These are the ten largest cities by population that have the greatest chance of running out of water". It does not state that one is more likely to run out of water before two or ten. Back to school boi
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Old 02-12-2013, 06:42 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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Well there goes that "more compact and urban and cohesive" theory you mentioned.
You do realize that from Ilume to Uptown is probably a mile. And Ilume to Highland Park is probably a mile. When you lived at Ilume you most certainly could have walked to McKinney Avenue in Uptown. So yes it is compact and Urban. Maybe you were just lazy.
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Old 02-12-2013, 06:44 PM
 
Location: Dallas, Texas
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I find it hard to see how urbanity fits in with commuter rail, freeways and no natural barriers. Sprawl yes, urbanity, no.
I hope this is a joke.
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Old 02-12-2013, 08:19 PM
 
Location: Texas
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You do realize that from Ilume to Uptown is probably a mile. And Ilume to Highland Park is probably a mile. When you lived at Ilume you most certainly could have walked to McKinney Avenue in Uptown. So yes it is compact and Urban. Maybe you were just lazy.
haha good try.
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Old 02-12-2013, 08:23 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I hope this is a joke.
You don't think commuter rail, larger freeways and no natural barriers encourages sprawl?!?
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Old 02-12-2013, 09:00 PM
 
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New York has freeways and it also sprawls.
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Old 02-12-2013, 10:41 PM
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Location: Fort Worth
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New York has freeways and it also sprawls.
Apparently New York gets a pass on that...
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Old 02-13-2013, 01:14 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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New York has freeways and it also sprawls.
True, but most of their freeways are tiny...as in 6 lanes wide & no feeders or HOV lanes.
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Old 02-13-2013, 01:19 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Seems like Houston will run out of water before every city in Texas...Go Houston!!
They didn't seem to take into account it rains more in Southeast Texas than any other region of Texas. That's why it is always so lush & green looking even in the winter time.

If people collected that rainfall for filtering into their homes it would make a huge difference.
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Old 02-13-2013, 09:43 AM
 
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Neither Houston nor Dallas need to worry too much about water, so I wouldn't consider that a true limiting factor. They have more population than the states north of them, so sorry Arkansas and Oklahoma and anywhere else north and east with low populations and available water, you will lose that battle. Sure, Texas will have to pay a bit more for it, but it'll be available and not expensive enough to limit growth in any real terms.
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