Travis McGee for Houston City Council, District D

A record of showing up

From our blocks.
To City Hall.

Travis McGee leads We The People Of Sunnyside Garden/Bayou Estates and South Park Super Neighborhood 72. From neighborhood meetings to City Hall, he has pressed for answers on the issues that shape daily life.^{Source 1 Source 2}

His record includes organizing with residents against illegal dumping, speaking up about the loss of Grimes Park,^{Source 1} and calling for investment in drainage, affordable housing and opportunity for young people.^{Source 3 Source 4}

Named one of the Defender’s 2026 Ones to Watch in community leadership.^{Source 5}

Explore his priorities

Travis McGee at a microphone with the Grimes Park playground behind him — Travis McGee speaking at the Grimes Park ribbon cutting.
African American News & IssuesWhy Grimes Park?
Travis writes about what the park meant to Sunnyside and why residents deserved a say in its future.

Sunnyside roots

A resident and civic organizer working alongside neighbors on Houston’s south side.

Community leadership

Local leadership in Sunnyside Garden/Bayou Estates and South Park, grounded in the concerns residents bring forward.

A record of speaking up

Advocacy for cleaner blocks, stronger infrastructure and a meaningful voice in decisions about neighborhood spaces.

Around Worthing

Showing up.
Pitching in.

Water, sports drinks and a community effort for Worthing High School.

Two adults standing behind a cart stacked with bottled water and sports drinks outside Worthing High School — **Worthing hydration drive**A delivery of water and sports drinks for the school community.

A group helping unload cases of supplies from the back of a vehicle outside a school building — **A helping hand**Pitching in and unloading supplies together.

Freedom means a lot of things to a lot of different people, but freedom should mean the same for all people.

When I think of freedom I think of affordable housing, livable wages, innocent until proven guilty. I think of fair, quality, equitable education with options of affordable higher education. I think of a better quality of life for every man, woman, and child regardless of their race, color, or creed without the fear of deportation.

Freedom is transparent leadership for “We the People” vs. “Sellout” or dictatorship for everything, but “We The People.”

Freedom is the right to be afforded a fair trial in a court of law regardless of one’s economic, geographic or demographic status. Freedom is representation equal to taxation.

Freedom is a world without racism, classism or anything else that discriminates and/or causes division among us. Freedom is a judicial system that is for all people vs. continuous injustice for “just us”.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

The priorities

A better everyday life
in District D.

Good schools. A home within reach. Clean blocks. Reliable infrastructure. Safer communities.

Neighborhood schools

Schools that open doors.

Travis has called for vocational programs, stronger school funding and smaller classes, and for families to have a meaningful voice in their children’s education.^{Source 6}

Affordable housing

A place families can afford.

Travis has called for real affordable-housing programs and raised concerns about predatory practices. His focus is on the residents who need housing to be within reach.^{Source 4}

Clean neighborhoods

Our blocks deserve better.

Travis has organized with residents seeking action on illegal dumping. Cleaner neighborhoods start with listening to complaints, following through and holding the response accountable.^{Source 3}

Drainage and infrastructure

Fix the basics. Protect our homes.

Travis has advocated for greater drainage investment and updates to aging infrastructure, with attention to the flooding and environmental hazards residents face.^{Source 4}

Community safety

Safer neighborhoods. More opportunity.

Travis’s public positions connect community policing with prevention: stronger relationships between residents and law enforcement, alongside vocational and trade opportunities for young people.^{Source 7, Source 4}

These priorities draw on Travis’s published statements and community work. Read the sources.

District D

The neighborhoods.
The people.
The place we call home.

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Eight Houston super neighborhoods lie entirely inside District D, according to the City’s 2024 council district tables.^{Source 8}

Drawn from the City of Houston’s 2024 Council District D boundary.^{Source 9} Simplified; label positions are approximate; north is up. Not an official City map. Numbers match the neighborhood lists. Bayou lines: U.S. Geological Survey.^{Source 10} Official District D map (PDF)^{Source 11}

Entirely in District D

Greater Third Ward
Museum Park
Greater OST / South Union
Sunnyside
South Park
South Acres / Crestmont Park
Minnetex
MacGregor^{Source 8}

Mostly in District D

Medical Center Area (94%)
Midtown (90%)^{Source 8}

Parts of other areas are also in District D. Your address is the only reliable answer.

City parks on the District D list

Emancipation Park
MacGregor Park
Hermann Park
Sims Bayou Park
Sagemont Park^{Source 12}

Gabled shotgun houses receding to the right along a sidewalk, with shrubs in front and trees at right. — A row of white clapboard shotgun houses with red tin roofs, under a shade tree. Third Ward, photographed between 1980 and 2006.^{Photo credit 2}

A gravel walk beside a long pool, with live oaks along the far side and a statue on a plinth at the end. — A long reflection pool lined with live oaks, with an equestrian statue at the far end and towers beyond the trees. Hermann Park, August 2023.^{Photo credit 3}

People here have organized before.

1872.
Led by Rev. Jack Yates, formerly enslaved African Americans bought ten acres for $800 to celebrate Juneteenth. It is now Emancipation Park.^{Source 13, Source 14}
1915.
Sunnyside was laid out as the first addition south of the city offered to Black homebuyers.^{Source 15}
1936.
A civic club was organized in Sunnyside “for the purpose of securing better drainage, lighting and general civic improvement.”^{Source 15}
1950.
Sunnyside created its own water district and volunteer fire department.^{Source 15}
1950s.
South Park was built as tract homes; streets in its oldest subdivision are named for World War II battles that many of the original buyers, returning veterans, knew firsthand.^{Source 2}

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Travis McGee

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