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I believe the crossroad is FM 2855. Take HWY 90 west out of Katy. Go past Pederson Road and it should be the next main road to your right. The airport will be on your left. Go straight to Morton Road and turn left. This is the north boundry of the airport. Then, turn left at the next road. This is where you can best see the progress. Hope that helps. I went looking for it one day myself and had a hard time at first. Almost missed it on 2855 until I caught a glimpse of something in the distance.

Pope John XX!!! is the private high school. www.pj23.org Ekarl...with all due respect...you are kidding right? There is no way that houses are going to be torn down on the north side. The smaller houses may increase in value slightly but that isn't going to happen any time soon. Not when you have new subdivisions selling brand new houses for under 100K in the general area. Like it or not, economic boundries have been set in the Katy area. Do a search on HAR and it'll become painfully clear.

Trae...you are the man with the info about Katy...bravo! I'm a little suprised with all the replies thus far wishing for more chain restaurants. Personally, I hate chain restaurants and would prefer more "mom and pop" kind of places. One of a kind restaurants. Chain restaurants combined with mall shopping makes an area look like so many others. Personally, I would love to see a one of a kind steak house, one where I know that each time I go there I'm in for a treat. One where you see the owner at the store, an owner who really cares about his customers. One where the servers are not like robots. Too bad we don't have more places like this...really a shame.

Take another look at the Grand Parkway/Kingsland intersection. They planted a lot of trees over the past week. I mean A LOT. Not sure how good it's going to look to be honest, but I don't think they were planted for aesthetics. I think it's intended to be more of a sound barrier with as many as they planted. Time will tell. Hopefully they'll do something with Highland Knolls soon.

This could be very interesting. Just about every day, we see something new going up in Katy and wonder what's next. What would you like to see in Katy? Try to be specific, instead of more shopping, say that you would like to have a store like Macys for example. Let's hear it...what would you like to see open up in Katy? What do we have enough of already?

Ok, honestly I'm not trying to be a smart alec here at all, more like devils advocate. From the airport website, the first phase is 190 acres out of a total 1,980 acre site. This is not cheap land by any means. Then there is the cost to build the complex, $14 million dollars. I can't imagine that the owners of this complex can come up with that amount of lettuce for this project without having a plan for the geese. I mean honestly, my guess is that at a VERY MINUMUM, they have $30 millions dollars wrapped up in this entire project thus far. Do you really think they would take that kind of chance to lose every cent due to the geese? That area out there is prime real estate. Just take a look at the industry out that way. Take a look at the available land. It only makes sense that this area will attract more industry. I'm sure the plan is to be more than just a general aviation airport. UPS has been investigating our area for a long time to put in a hub. That area out there is prime for this type of facility. No coincidence I'm sure. As I said in my previous post. I'm sorry for the folks that built their homes out there. But honestly, the industry was out there before a lot of these new houses. The owners had to have some sort of idea that their own personal slice of heaven wouldn't last.

I drove out by the new nuisance the other day to check it out for myself. I drove around the entire airport and to be honest, I don't see a single problem with the project. I don't hear people complaining about all the semi truck traffic out that way and boy is there a lot of that. I don't hear people complaining about the steel companies out that way. Let's face it, that side of Katy is prime industrial type space. One only needs to take a ride out HWY 90 to see that for themselves. I am sorry that the solitude of the 2-4 acre homesites will be distrubed, but that really is life. The only thing that would have stopped this project is...er...uh...nothing.