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Houston · Riverside Terrace
Riverside Civic Association brings residents together to protect quality of life, improve public safety, preserve neighborhood character, and celebrate the families who make Riverside Terrace one of Houston's historic communities.
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This Month in Riverside Terrace
Top Priority
Safe streets, peaceful blocks, and responsive public agencies for every Riverside Terrace family.
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Add your voice to the civic work shaping the neighborhood.
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RCA-supported petitions have helped bring traffic calming to residential blocks.
About RCAOur boundaries are North MacGregor along Brays Bayou, Highway 288, Blodgett St, and Columbia Tap Trail.
If you live, own property, or run a business inside this area, you're part of the community RCA represents.
Subdivisions inside the RCA boundary
In the News
Press coverage of Riverside Terrace residents organizing for safety, quality of life, and neighborhood character.
Elected officials and residents in Houston's Historic Riverside Terrace neighborhood are pushing back against a proposed convenience store and gas station at Southmore Boulevard and Live Oak Street, saying it would threaten safety, property values, and quality of life.
What RCA Does
We bring neighbors together around shared priorities, meetings, volunteer work, and civic action.
We communicate resident concerns to city departments, elected officials, and civic partners.
We focus on the priorities neighbors ranked highest — public safety, the Southmore & Emancipation corridor, noise, traffic, dumping, and more.
We honor the families, homes, history, parks, businesses, and institutions that make this community special.
Ranked by what neighbors told us in the 2024 survey.
Take Action This Week
For sensitive neighborhood issues, RCA uses separate internal processes and does not publish private complaint details online.
RCA-supported petitions have helped bring traffic calming to residential blocks.
Resident-led parking petitions have improved on-street access on key blocks.
Advocacy work supporting protections that preserve neighborhood character.
Volunteer cleanups have removed illegal dumping and restored corridors.
Ongoing work pushing for sidewalk repair, drainage, and public investment.
RCA support for park stewardship, programming, and beautification.
Celebrating the businesses, churches, and institutions that make the neighborhood thrive.
Riverside Stories
Riverside Terrace is more than a place on a map.
Family Spotlight
Three generations on the same block — a story of roots, porches, and Sunday dinners in Riverside Terrace.
Read moreCommunity
How one resident's quiet weekend work turned a forgotten corner into a small neighborhood pride point.
Read moreBusiness Spotlight
A long-time Riverside Terrace business reflects on serving the community across decades.
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