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Originally Posted by photoLith
I rode my bike over to the ashby area today and that crappy apartment complex there has lots of tenants. I can't imagine the high rise having that many more people living on that spot than do now. And even if there are, the whole traffic argument is bull because I live in houston house apartments downtown, which is three times the size of the ashby high rise and maybe about once every ten minutes a car enters or leaves the parking garage. Hardly enough traffic to cause congestion. Even if Houston house were located in a residential neighborhood this wouldn't even cause traffic let alone a 21 story tower.
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The Maryland Manor is hardly crappy. Sure, it's not a class A new stucco apartment complex with faux rock exterior, but the units are clean and relatively affordable for the area. Lots of Rice U. graduate students are going to be looking for places soon. Oh, and by the way, there are 67 units at the Maryland Manor complex today. The new tower is projected to have 220+ units, so yeah, there will be a slight increase in traffic, especially because many of the Maryland Manor's current residents actually walk/ride bikes to get to Rice. You can see them every morning heading South down Ashby St. to the campus. Most of these people wont be able to afford the new tower.