{"id":426879,"date":"2026-09-05T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426879\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T06:00:12","slug":"houston-approves-tirz-budgets-updates-to-agreements-bellaire-meyerland-west-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426879\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston approves TIRZ budgets, updates to agreements | Bellaire &#8211; Meyerland &#8211; West University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston City Council approved the Texas Medical Center Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone\u2019s fiscal year 2026-27 budget of $1.7 million during the Sept. 2 regular meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>Known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstontx.gov\/ecodev\/tirz\/28.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TIRZ 28<\/a>, council also approved the $6.9 million budget for its five-year Capital Improvements Plan. Projects that will take place in the area throughout the next five years include:<\/p>\n<p>TMC independent water supply systemTransportation safety and access improvementsRoadway rehabilitationMultimodal connectivity improvements<\/p>\n<p>The water supply system also has a budget of $400,000 and will be paid off during FY 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p>TIRZ 28 includes areas like the Texas Medical Center, the Houston Zoo and Hermann Park. It was first created in December 2022, according to the city\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the agenda<\/p>\n<p>Council also approved an updated agreement extending Harris County\u2019s participation in TIRZ 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/uptown-houston.com\/about\/tirz-uda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which represents Uptown<\/a>, through 2040. The county will contribute 40% of its tax increment generated within the zone\u2019s Precinct 4 portion, with portions dedicated to affordable housing and maintenance and operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston City Council approved the Texas Medical Center Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone\u2019s fiscal year 2026-27 budget of $1.7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,148474,14969,148472,148473,148475],"class_list":["post-426879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-tirz","tag-texas-medical-center","tag-tirz-28","tag-tmc-tirz","tag-uptown-tirz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}