TxDOT buys White Oak Bayou land for $260K after years of community protest over I-45 expansion

This week’s Insider Deals are so good you’ll want all of them– The City of Houston has approved the sale of land along White Oak Bayou to the Texas Department of Transportation.

Save White Oak Bayou community members have fought against the sale along with the group Stop TxDOT I-45, even traveling to Austin last year to bend the ears of lawmakers. “The Federal Highway Administration has asked TxDOT to stand down on essentially all activities of the project, as the federal government investigates,” said Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee.

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