Greater Inwood Partnership

Community Projects

Agency for Harris County Community Service Retribution Program
Partnership volunteers supervise the community service of up to 50 workers each Saturday morning, ridding the area of tons of unsightly trash from our roadways.

Contact Debbie Harlow to volunteer for this program

Stop Trashing Houston Program
The partnership takes the Stop Trashing Houston program into area schools, communities and businesses and works with the Near Northwest Management District that tickets trashing violators.

Contact Frank Kleinworth for community and business education
Contact Donna Salas for school education

311 Reporting Program
Subdivisions and businesses coordinate efforts to enforce city ordinances making our area safer and more beautiful.

Map with extended subdivision boundaries
Contact Toni Troxell to report ordinance violations for your subdivision

Business Partners
Esplanade Sponsors – Local business adopt, maintain and repair area esplanades

Trespass Affidavits – Local business property owners sign trespass affidavits granting the Houston Police Department authority to remove roadside vendors and loiterers from their property

Area Beautification

Parks – Active partnering with government agencies has led to the creation of West Mount Houston Park, Alabonson Park and Aron Ledet Park

Bayous – White Oak Bayou, Vogel Creek and Cole Creek offer plentiful space for hiking, biking and bird watching. The Partnership preserves our native trees, enhances our detention basins and educates area residents about the benefits of our green spaces

Esplanades – The Partnership has irrigated thirty two of the 30-foot wide esplanades on Antoine Drive and W. Tidwell Rd. and planted 76 with beautiful native trees and shrubs

Hike and Bike Trails – The 2.8 mile construction of the West White Oak Bayou Trail Extension along the west side of White Oak Bayou from Pinemont Dr. to Victory Dr. will begin in July 2007 (houstonbikeways.org)

Education
Scholarships help fund college education for area students who model exemplary community service. Community events feature local students and highlight excellence within the area schools

Flooding Concerns
The Partnership monitors area construction and permits to promote area interests regarding flood waters and improved drainage

Quick Links

Calendar of Events
Community Alert Network
Contact GIP
Area Map

Did You Know?

Since December 2001 the
Greater Inwood Partnership has
planted 572 trees, 2888 shrubs,
and has irrigated 26 esplanades.

Time Was ...

The greater Inwood area has a history of interesting people, beginning with its first known citizens the Look family. Willy Look, a Look family descendent, told Rob Burchfield in the last 1970s about some of the area's early history. This is what Willie Look said:

In 1896 my father got off a boat in Galveston and walked to this area, stopping roughly at the corner of West Tidwell and Antoine Drive where he built the family home in a lovely stand of White Oak trees. There were many floods in the grazing bottoms when White Oak Bayou flowed over its banks during a typical Houston rainy season. When I got caught in one of the bayou swells, I would slide off my horse, hang on to its tail for dear life and let the horse pull me to safety.

In the 1950s the Corps of Engineers proposed the creation of a lake which would have covered virtually all of the Inwood area. The dam was to be constructed at the confluence of White Oak Bayou and Brick House Gully just south of W. Tidwell Rd. Willy Look, who never learned how to swim, didn't like the idea of having water all around him, so he organized a group of area farmers to protest the plan before city council. Willy and the farmers won and Lake Inwood never happened.