Supercharger- Richmond, TX

[GroundForces]

Dividing line between Richmond and Sugar Land appears to be Ransom Road.

No, it's the SW Freeway at the current moment, and even further south if you consider the fact that Greatwood and Royal Lake Estates are both in Sugar Land's ETJ. I think Tara is, too, even though it's known to be a less desirable subdivision. READ: little bit ghettto The sales tax from SW Freeway commercial development is SL's bread and butter. The are set to annex Greatwood real soon here just like they did with New Territory recently.

Grew up in Sugar Land.

 

[PLUS EV]

Address is Richmond. End of story.

Tesla can't just name stuff based on what locals call it or else it gets confusing for non-locals who are presumably the ones that are most likely to use the superchargers.

 

[SpiceWare]

No, it's the SW Freeway at the current moment

Just going by the cities that Taco Bell

Freddy's

Shermin-Williams

and Memorial Hermann

stated they are located in to determine that Ransom Road is the most likely dividing line between Richmond and Sugar Land. SW freeway doesn't pass between any of those.

 

[GroundForces]

Mailing addresses aren't indicative of city limits. There's a whole swath of Houston in Ft. Bend County with 32,000-some-odd population with a Missouri City mailing address just because the Mo. City Post Office is closer. Blue Ridge, Houston - Wikipedia

 

[SpiceWare]

From maps for the City of Richmond, the Official Zoning Map uses this:

to denote what's within the city limits of Richmond. It travels down Ransom Road and wraps around the businesses on Pointe West which include the Rudy's, etc.

 

[namlio]

In the end, it doesn’t really matter what it is called as long as it is built and operating and the location is clear on the map.

By the way, Greatwood was annexed by the city of Sugar Land at the same time as New Territory in December 2017.

 

[houstonian]

2nd IAH location at a Rudy’s.

Wonder if the Katy location will be at the Rudy’s near 10 and Mason...

 

[fmc2]

I visited the site this evening. The utilities have been marked but trenching has not started. Appears that superchargers will be located in parking lot between Rudy's and Freddy's.

 

[PLUS EV]

According to google maps the site actually is within the Sugar Land city limits.

I've never heard of being in the city limits of one city and having a mailing address of another city. Seems really stupid, but then again, some things are done "Texas style" and don't necessarily make a lot of sense. Don't get me started on the awful freeway designs with all the frontage roads

 

[Beryl]

If 20500 SW Freeway is the accurate address, Google has it in Richmond. It isn’t a terrible area at all. Not too far south of Costco.

 

[PLUS EV]

If 20500 SW Freeway is the accurate address, Google has it in Richmond. It isn’t a terrible area at all. Not too far south of Costco.

Yes that is the address. But if you type Sugar Land, TX into Google, it will show you the city limits. The site falls within those city limits (and also well out of the city limits shown when you type in Richmond, TX).

 

[SpiceWare]

Why should I believe Google's map is more accurate than the ones put out by the cities of Richmond and Sugar Land? As shown above, Richmond considers it within their city limits, while Sugar Land's map shows it outside of their city limits.

 

[TexasEV]

I've never heard of being in the city limits of one city and having a mailing address of another city. Seems really stupid, but then again, some things are done "Texas style" and don't necessarily make a lot of sense. Don't get me started on the awful freeway designs with all the frontage roads

Lots of examples. West University Place has Houston mailing address. Westlake has Austin mailing address.

 

[STDRDC13]

2nd IAH location at a Rudy’s.

Wonder if the Katy location will be at the Rudy’s near 10 and Mason...

Agreed about the Rudy's in Katy as I mentioned in the (or a) Texas thread...apparently all (or most) the Rudy's in TX are corporate owned, so it appears there's a relationship budding between the two. Makes it easier to track or locate new construction.

 

[Buddyroe]

Damn guys, who cares about the city limits and mailing addresses? This is a supercharger thread, and we all can see where it is. That's all that matters. No use in getting into a petty argument that no one will win, and it WON'T matter anyway.

I really hope the next post is about something important - like trenching!

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Damn guys, who cares about the city limits and mailing addresses? This is a supercharger thread, and we all can see where it is. That's all that matters. No use in getting into a petty argument that no one will win, and it WON'T matter anyway.

I really hope the next post is about something important - like trenching!

If it's wrong, it means a data update for Blueshift and a thread title change for a TMC mod.
So, damn it, it's important!

Not as important as the fact that this will split Victoria, TX and Nacogdoches, TX and continue the build-out along I-69 (nee US-59).

 

[AndrewTX]

Not as important as the fact that this will split Victoria, TX and Nacogdoches, TX and continue the build-out along I-69 (nee US-59).

The original Houston SC on I-45N really had split that gap anyway. You really want to avoid taking I-69 through Houston in most cases.

 

[PLUS EV]

Damn guys, who cares about the city limits and mailing addresses?

Quite a few people, apparently.

 

[ℬête Noire]

Mailing addresses aren't indicative of city limits. There's a whole swath of Houston in Ft. Bend County with 32,000-some-odd population with a Missouri City mailing address just because the Mo. City Post Office is closer. Blue Ridge, Houston - Wikipedia

Yeah, this is a weird thing that can happen over time as cities grow and annex surrounding areas, while the smaller town's nominal postal coverage gets squeezed. Our nearest grocery stores are addressed as "Magnolia", though they are a full 10 miles from Magnolia itself (and about 6 miles from the edge of some effectively empty land the town of Magnolia has annexed, to try maintain it's turf). These groceries stores, and most of the other business properties around them, are about to be annexed into the city of Conroe. It is extremely unlikely that their official mailing address will change to reflect this.

 

[fmc2]

Tax records indicate City of Richmond as taxing entity.