Houstons mayoral candidates participated in NOZONE: Houstons Mayoral Forum on Land Use on July 9, 2009, 7-9pm, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX. The evening was moderated by conceptual artist and professor Mary Ellen Carroll, who also conceived and organized the event in conjunction with the museums exhibition No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston.
Bill Arning, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, welcomed the participants and audience members, and introduced moderator Mary Ellen Carroll.
Houstons mayoral candidates—Peter Brown, TJ Huntley, Gene Locke, Roy Morales, and Annise Parker—responded to five questions pertaining to land use in the following areas: Legislation and Policy; Education; Transportation; Quality of Life; and Growth. Following the responses, a panel of respondents provided comments and raised further questions for the candidates. Respondents were:
Jordan Fruge, Senior Vice President, Business Development, and one of the original founders of Standard Renewable Energy, LP; Robin Holzer, a former business consultant turned civic leader and chair of the board of the nonprofit Citizens' Transportation Coalition (CTC) which she helped found in 2004; Jenny Hyun, Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Weingarten Realty; Hugh Rice Kelly, a writer and speaker on land use issues who prior to his retirement in 2003, was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Center Point Energy and Reliant Energy; Janet Kohlhase, an associate professor of economics at the University of Houston, and a research associate at the Universitys Center for Public Policy; Asmara Tekle-Johnson, an assistant professor of law at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University; and Reid C. Wilson who serves as Houston District Council Chair of The Urban Land Institute and is one of a few land use attorneys in southeast Texas. In 1992, he chaired the Houston Bar Association's Zoning Study Group.
No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston was organized by CAMHs Senior Curator Toby Kamps and Curatorial Associate Meredith Goldsmith. The discussion was held at Carrolls prototype180:table, which was designed specifically for negotiation and for staging these types of public forums and presentations.
About No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston:
Free from the land-use and zoning ordinances that shape other large American cities by separating residential, commercial, and industrial areas, Houston allows a mixed-use approach where disparate architectures and functions blend. In this often chaotic, jarring urban topography, many Houston artists have been able to carve out spaces and opportunities for themselves, their work, and their communities. No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston is the first museum exhibition to consider the current and past efforts of regional artists working in the urban environment, and includes work by 21 artists. On view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, May 9 October 4, 2009.
Video credits-
Video work: Andriano Balajadia
Special thanks to: Mary Ellen Carroll, Peter Brown, TJ Huntley, Gene Locke, Roy Morales, Annise Parker, Jordan Fruge, Robin Holzer, Jenny Hyun, Hugh Rice Kelly, Janet Kohlhase, Asmara Tekle-Johnson, Reid Wilson, Innovation Territories, Houston. Its Worth It., and The Rice University Building Institute.
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