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Developers get their way, coach gets the boot and creepy Rose may get a new show.

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Remember that frog-choking gully washer we had last August? Big storm called Harvey that blew through town? If you see the mayor or the City Council members listed above, you might want to remind them about it. With no debate, nary even a token expression of concern, the crew behind the horseshoe on Bagby Street just unanimously approved creation of a municipal utility district that will literally pave the way for the development of a new subdivision on the site of an old golf course in the middle of a flood plain. We hope this doesn’t foreshadow more thumbs down from members of Congress nixing disaster relief funds to a city that still can’t look developers in the eye and just say no.

Meanwhile, about 1,400 Texans still displaced by Hurricane Harvey were ordered out of their FEMA-funded hotels, even though there’s no indication the General Land Office or anybody else has made new housing arrangements for so many homeless storm victims. One Harvey survivor who’s lived in a motel since September says a manager knocked on her door and told her she had 30 minutes to check out. That’s nowhere near good enough for government work.

Here’s wishing a speedy recovery to our genial neighbor, George H.W. Bush. After he checks out of the hospital where he’s been treated for a blood infection, the former president reportedly plans to head to his summer home in Maine and cheer the Rockets through the NBA playoffs. Maybe the 93-year-old World War II combat veteran can share some longevity secrets with his fellow Texas legend Willie Nelson, who turned 85 this week.

As Jim Crane tosses World Series rings around to everybody from Tilman Fertitta to Mattress Mac, maybe the Astros’ owner can fling some bling to Wayne Graham. Rice University has let its legendary 82-year-old baseball head coach know he’s out of a job at the end of this season. Under Graham’s leadership, the Owls have slugged their way to every NCAA tournament since 1995. And of course, in 2003, they won the national championship, giving this newspaper the pleasure of publishing one of our all-time favorite headlines, a play on words that now seems ironic enough for an Alanis Morissette lyric: “Rice Guys Finish First.”

Now that they’ve reached an outof-court settlement with their notoriously noisy neighbor, we wish the long-suffering homeowners around the White Oak Music Hall a good night’s sleep. But we doubt their troubles are over. Their lawyer has a good point: If concert promoters decide to throw nighttime rock festivals in the middle of your neighborhood, you shouldn’t have to hire a legal team to argue your case at the courthouse. This is a job for city government.

We figured we had seen the last of Charlie Rose, the former Dallas television personality who took his act national and turned out to be a serial jerk accused of groping and exposing himself to female subordinates. Now comes word that someone’s shopping a proposal for Rose to host a new show in which he interviews fellow celebrity sexual harassment perps like Matt Lauer and Louis CK. An old Stephen King movie already stole the appropriate title for this abomination: “Creepshow.”