HOUSTON—The City of Houston is on the verge of another big building battle.

This time, the fight is over a planned high-rise development in the Heights.

For some Heights residents like April Weinstein, the development is bad news.

The city wants to build a 14-story office tower that would offer retail space right smack in the middle of her neighborhood.

“It would be an eyesore, first of all – especially here on White Oak,” Weinstein said.

Gary Mosley owns the Onion Creek Coffee House on White Oak, and he agrees with Weinstein.

“It just doesn’t make any sense,” he said. “That’s why a lot of people are moving to the Heights, because of our strong niche of keeping our community historic.”

The Heights is full of small bungalows and new Victorian homes, but none of them are over four or five stories.

And that’s the way residents of one of Houston’s oldest neighborhoods said they want to keep it.

They said they plan to fight the proposed development as strongly as homeowners living near Rice University have opposed the Ashby high-rise.

“We don’t want to be another Montrose. We don’t want to be another Galleria. We don’t want to be another West U. We want to be the Heights,” one resident said.

Unfortunately, city leaders say we can expect more of these kinds of controversies in Houston’s future as the city continues to grow and develop.