mrfootball

Yes

Is there a chance that rezone will include Greenwood Forest? Any discussion surrounding that?

Are they still planning on shifting enrollment Westward to alleviate overcrowding and future growth in the KF zone?

I had read in the PASA report that neighborhoods on the North side of FM 1960 (and some right on the South side) would be rezoned to Klein in order to make room for additional growth in that Southern part of the District that stretches all the way to Inwood Forest.

Klein Memorial Fightin' Meerkats

The Klein Klink Colonels

One things for sure, do not name it Klein Cypress. While historically appropriate (the whole NW area was once called "Big Cypress"), it would lead to some major confusion for non-Northwesties.

mrfootball I believe you are being paged on RP concerning the TTC. Might want to get over there.

Those guys are helpless. You can show them all of the evidence in the world and they won't connect the dots. In Rick they trust.

My vote goes for Kleinloch Farms or E.A. "Squatty" Lyons High

OR

Lyle Lovett HS

Interesting to hear about Klein HS demolition. Looks like they're forecasting the same HS costs as Cy-Fair ISD at $100M per. I wonder why they aren't just doing a major renovation like CFISD is doing for Cy-Creek HS?

I need to get a Klein/Champions photo thread going on Flickr as well.

They're going to need to do something fast. We are rapidly approaching crisis mode with 290. Legislators and public servants need to be held accountable for their inaction.

These guys are some of the worst. They've been quoted in the paper saying they'd take the signs down, yet repeatedly littered the landscape with their bandit signs.

Harris County is going after them (and will start going after the others). Finally, a good sign...for Harris County.

Harris County Taking Homebuilder to Court over Placards

Yes, across the street from the miniature golf course.

I've been encouraged by Precinct 3's efforts to create major roads that are "boulevards" with medians. They've also made efforts to plant trees along these medians. A good example nearby are the recent plantings on Telge Rd. I imagine they'll do the same for the Huffmeister expansion, which is coming along now.

Unfortunately, Precinct 4 chooses to go a different route, opting instead for massive asphalt suicide lanes (a la FM 1960 and Louetta from Champion Dr. past I-45). For continuity's sake, I called Pct 4 to request that they plant trees in the medians on Louetta between Jones Rd. & Malcomsen and they said they "don't do that". Some nonsense about mowing. The only option is to contact County Engineering and arrange some sort of deal between the County and the local neighborhoods, which in this case would be Heatherwood, Villaggio, Waldwyck and Gettysburg and part of Lakewood Forest. If anyone from those neighborhoods would like to adopt that part of Louetta you can click here:

http://www.hcp4.net/cad/adopt-county-mile.htm

If you want to landscape it and plant trees on it like the rest of that stretch of Louetta, you can call County Engineering at 713-956-3000.

I miss Dillas.

I corresponded with the owner who seemed to indicate that at the last moment he had a chance to save it (the developers changed their mind) but he'd already sold off the equipment or something like that. Agree, it had a great atmosphere. We liked to take the kids there.

Here are some renderings and info about the new Treeline development:

Treeline

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5444317.html

Newest revelation in Chuck Rosenthal's "email-gate" reveals that they regularly tossed potential jurors if they said they attended Lakewood Church.

Per Rosenthal "Screwballs and Nuts" attend Lakewood church.

Stone Gate is nice and offers a neat Links-style golfcourse. The largest portion of land off Barker Cypress that is undeveloped is going to be part of the Towne Lake development which will consists of upscale homes $250's to the $Millions, a 300 acre lake with boats and marinas, a waterfront and a retail/restaurant/corporate quasi-Downtown (in the portion that borders 290).

You may also really like the Fry Rd. Corridor. There's nothing much below the $250K price point and there's a great golf course in Blackhorse. Bridgeland is coming along very nicely and Cypress Creek Lakes and Cypress Creek Ranch are quite nice.

If you like wooded enclaves, some of the best neighborhoods in Cypress are located North of 290. Check out Coles Crossing, Longwood, Stable Gate, Lakes of Rosehill, Rock Creek, Lakewood Oaks Estates, Lakewood Glen, Northlake Forest, and a dozen others.

My Cypress Neighborhood Photos

How long are these people going to be living off the public dole? How long are we going to encourage/enable these lowlifes to continue to live these lifestyles at our expense?

She looks somewhat familiar. I think she may have been a teacher back when I was there, that was more than 16 years ago.

I think they're building a new shopping center or Dr's offices. Something like that. Haven't noticed any actual roadwork.

Somebody ought to do an Open Records request to find out how many other welfare recipients are living in $200K homes.

CYPRESS CREEK PRESERVE

Tree planting set Saturday

Legacy Land Trust is hosting a work day 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at Little Cypress Creek Preserve in Cypress.

Volunteers will help plant trees and remove deep-rooted sedge. The 58-acre preserve is located at Telge and Spring Cypress. To help out, call 713-524-2100.

Residents can join master naturalist and Legacy Land Trust volunteer Scott Kiester for an early morning bird count at 7 a.m.

Stonegate is nice, it's not far from Barker Lake which itself isn't bad, save for these dirtbags who've no business being there. Home prices in that neighborhood, Barker Lake, range from $170's to the $290's. Not really the type of neighborhood you would expect the gov't to be dumping Katrina refugees in, if that's indeed the case.

It seems the neighbor should share some blame as well, if he was indeed dropping off his kids there knowing that no-one was watching them. Apparently, he was the one who was supposed to pick up the aunt from the bus-stop, so he must have known she was not there watching them. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE??????

I have always been a proponent of personal liberties, but the more stories I hear about this, and the other incident where a 12 y. o. beat his newborn sister to death with a baseball bat with no parent at home (posted in the off topic section)...make me think you should have to be licensed to be able to reproduce.

Judging from the news reports I've seen and interviews with various neighbors I wouldn't be surprised if the government subsidized a number of Katrina families in that neighborhood. It's nice that they're so generous with our money...

Figured with that sort of dirtbaggish behavior she was probably from New Orleans. How does a freakish (and apparently jobless) single-mother with 8 young kids afford to live in that home? Some sort of Federal relocation program? Mortgage scam?

I'd like to see a rating of just who has the best taco truck or stand in town. Leaving out the brick & mortar establishments, is there any sort of rating system available for this sort of thing?

Another item for the marketers at Vintage Park (CBRE?). There are NO GOOD BOOKSTORES between Champion Forest Drive and FM 529!

An entire area from roughly 1960 all the way to Tomball currently has to drive 30 minutes to reach the nearest Barnes & Noble. Within this area lies a rather substantial (nearly twice the size of The Woodlands) growing market of $100K+ avg HH income residents ready to spend money on books.

Whether it's a Barnes & Noble or Borders, I care not. Just give us a bookstore.