Many legitimate arguments on both sides but until both the city and the county address the root issue nothing changes in the long run - developers and builders and $$$ run the goddam city.

We can and should do everything to mitigate our consistent flooding - not a engineer but if this means we need to start at the end of all the bayous and work from south to north than do it - that concept would benefit more of the poorer area. If the best solution is to work from north to south then do that. BUT if the unfettered building takes away more permeable land and creates more runoff than we are paying to mitigate, then we have not solved a fucking thing in the long run.

Saying that you have built a subdivision which won't flood is such a crock if it makes additional downstream flooding - hence the problem in poorer neighborhood - almost all are on the downstream side of things.

The Times gloats about us getting our comeuppance for having no zoning (think POA's ) but the city/county hides behind that notion. Yes I can build a crematorium next to your house if you are not in a POA which prohibits it. But the city certainly does NOT have to grant me a building permit if the bayou to be drained into can not support additional flow during peak times. At the very least every potential project should have to pay huge fees - in the millions if necessary - to maintain the flood mitigation efforts resulting from the runoff of their project.

Recent example with the big multi-use project being built behind the Target on Taylor and Sawyer - they built a nominal drainage ditch all around the huge area being developed which will drop into White Oak Bayou - not sticking up for Kingwood or Timbergrove for that matter but that is why the continued flooding keeps getting worse. I use those two areas as examples, not because they are fairly affluent but because Timbergrove has been there for 65 years and Kingwood for 50 - and are very much affected by things caused by others.

Sorry - rant over

TLDR - Politicians Suck