I'm sure they'll patch together another side to this story. I can't tell them that explaining their plans to the Heights Association or Heights residents would have been easy. We're not an easy bunch...but that isn't a bad thing. Too much in this town is too easy. I can completely understand why they wanted to go behind everyones' backs...it was EASIER...but easy isn't always best. I hope they'll learn that lesson. The Heights is different: we care. I work in the 'burbs and they wish they had half the passion in their home owners organizations that we have in our voluntary associations and our run-of-the-mill passive residents. We are keeping a part of Houston -- the real Houston, the one that my mom remembers, not the track home Houston -- alive. We try to keep the old and influence the new...we don't want to become Bellaire and loose our flavor. Why was this simple reality so difficult for those people to grasp? This attitude has been around for several years and it will likely bite that owner in the backside. Ask any builder in this neighborhood and he or she will tell you about the Heights Assoc. and the pull it can muster. If they come back with some silly story, too bad. No matter how true, they should have faced up to the reality of their demographic and explained themselves clearly. Without that, you have to assume they are just backpeddling.