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Mi Luna would be a natural fit in the new Vintage Park development (just north of Willowbrook on 249 & Louetta). Taco Milagro, Lupe Tortillas and PF Chang's have opened up here within the last few months and have enjoyed big openings. There's definitely a hunger for more 'inside the loop' type dining alternatives out here.

While I agree (especially about NQ). Can we refrain from adding what we don't like about development into every thread?

Here's a new presentation regarding the proposed Cypress Creek Greenway project. It includes a number of maps and images of the proposed trail systems and routes: http://www.ccfcc.org/images/CypressCreekPP...dit11.09.v3.pdf The Greenway will run along Cypress Creek and Little Cypress Creek, stretching from Bridgeland through Towne Lake across 290 through Coles Crossing through Longwood through Lakewood across 249 through to the Vintage, through Champions Forest through Wimbledon, Olde Oaks, Ponderosa/Cypresswood, under I-45 through to where it will link up with the Spring Creek Greenway at Jesse Jones Park.

I loved that place, it had a unique character about it. Sad to see it go.

Where is Hildebrandt? Off Kuykendahl? What's with the bolded out posts?

News to me. It shows here that they're still zoned to Cy-Creek, I doubt any zone changes would go over well with those residents who've been sending their kids to Cy-Creek for decades: CFISD Attendance Zones 2006-7 Same deal here: Attendance Zone Neighborhood Lookup - Aug, 8, 2006 Doesn't make any sense, if true. She's probably mistaken. There haven't been any announcements and if you look at the current boundaries, you see that it is located in the Cy-Creek Zone (east side of N. Eldridge), adjacent to the Cy-Fair zone (West side of N. Eldridge). It seems more plausible that if they were to re-zone it, it would go to Cy-Fair. The Cy-Woods zone borders there at Grant and Kluge (west side). They would have to make some sort of announcement if this was somehow to the contrary. Still, anyway you slice it, Cy-Creek's always been a great school.

Galveston...Sugar Land? Too bad The Woodlands isn't incorporated...guess the 4th will be Conroe or Katy someday. Too bad Cypress unincorporated in 1989...before it started booming in the mid 1990's. I'd love to see it re-incorporate. Good for Sugar Land. Is Pearland incorporated?

AS IF...there isn't enough low income housing in this city. There's low income housing ALL around there. EVERYWHERE.

They should...Houston's growth needs to be limited.

Ben or Jerry? BTW, the Democrats don't even run candidates in Montgomery County if that tells you anything.

Tell me you're kidding.

I noticed that the Metroplex suburb of Southlake recently opened its Town Square which looks remarkably like Market Street (with a larger 'square').

Cy-Fair is well-known in academic circles for rewarding its best teachers by naming its schools after them. Pretty much every teacher teaching at the district in the 1980's has an Elementary or Middle school named after them. There are a BUNCH of schools with more coming every year. As far as the Cypress Woods...Cypress Lakes...Cypress Ranch...etc. so what? It works for them. BTW, Klein does it too.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/cyf...ws/4073057.html July 26, 2006, 8:19AM More land sought for Spring Creek project Park will be largest ever in Houston area By BETH KUHLES Chronicle Correspondent Montgomery County has begun the process of acquiring more land for the Spring Creek Greenway project. The linear park, which will stretch from FM 2978 in Spring to U.S. 59 in Humble, will be the largest park ever developed in the Houston region. The 8,000- to 12,000-acre joint effort between Harris and Montgomery counties will offer many recreational opportunities, including trails for hiking, biking, nature walks and horseback riding as well as canoeing, playground and picnicking areas. Harris County also is busy plotting out paths and bridges for a 7.5-mile section that will run between Old Town Spring and Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center in Humble. Harris County Flood Control District recently acquired a 125-acre tract near the end of East Hardy Street and Interstate 45 and is preparing the preliminary plans to use a state grant to develop some trails there. A new park, Pundt Park in Spring, is scheduled to begin construction in early 2007, and trails are planned for a two-mile stretch out of that park as well as a half-mile stretch from Jones Park in Humble. The trails will include a 10-foot-wide asphalt trail with a parallel horseback riding trail, said Dennis Johnston, director of parks for Harris County Precinct 4. "We are into the nitty-gritty details," Johnston said. "It is slow work, dealing with flood plains, Army Corps of Engineers and wetlands stuff." Pundt Park, located behind Lexington Woods, will feature a pavilion, picnic areas, playground, parking lots and restrooms. Adding land While Montgomery County has been successful in getting several major land donations for the project, it is now looking at tax foreclosure sales and right of way acquisition, which may include condemnation, to get additional land. Montgomery County recently dedicated $1 million in certificates of obligation to obtain park land. "There is so much going on behind the scenes," said Robert Collins, special counsel for Montgomery County. "The pieces are coming together. We are really getting excited now." Montgomery County is targeting about 100 tax foreclosure properties in the Timber Lakes/Timber Ridge area of South County and Spring Acres, properties that are located in the flood plain. These properties had been offered at a county tax foreclosure sale but were never bid on. If the taxing entities agree, the county can settle the outstanding tax debts on the lots and use the property for parks. "Nobody wanted to bid on something they cannot build on," said J.R. Moore, Montgomery County tax assessor/collector. "These properties can be brought and sold to the county for the tax liens." Three properties were approved by Montgomery County Commissioners Court to proceed with tax trust, the process of the county obtaining the land by paying off the debts owed to schools and utility districts. One tract in Spring Acres was 2.5 acres, while there were two smaller residential lots available in Timber Lakes. In addition, Montgomery County hired KDM Property Acquisitions to obtain right of way for 20 tracts along Spring Creek. The estimated cost of the services is $38,000 and it will target property on the northern side of Spring Creek. Linking facilities Both Montgomery and Harris counties or their partners, which include The Woodlands Development Co. and the Harris County Flood Control District, own about half of the open space along Spring Creek and want to link the facilities with additional tracts along the creek. Spring Creek is only one of two creeks untouched by development in the Greater Houston area and is home to bobcats, deer, white cranes and red-shouldered hawks. On the Harris County side of the creek are Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center in Humble, Burroughs Park in Tomball, Cypresswood Golf Club in Spring, Mercer Arboretum & Botanic Gardens in Humble and Pundt Park under development in Spring. Harris County owns about 1,500 acres and is negotiating for an additional 150 acres between Old Town Spring and Jones Park. On the northern side of the creek in Montgomery County are Peckinpaugh Preserve, Benders Landing Estates, Montgomery County Preserve and Montgomery County sports fields. Negotiations are continuing on additional tracts, Collins said. The Woodlands also plans to develop seven miles of the creek.

Agree. I liked this area a lot when we were home shopping back '04. Is this where Landsdowne is?

Homeowners Protest Life Forms Homes during Rainbow Tour of Homes Last December.

We backed off from a really neat house in Champions due to the trees too close to the house issue. As for Lifeforms homes, we looked at several in The Woodlands when home shopping back in 2004. Didn't like them much. If I'm not mistaken, there was an entire section of homes in The Woodlands built in the early to mid 1990's that's having to have major mods/rebuilds done due to some structural issue. I prefer more classic looking homes, so I have a natural aversion to Lifeforms-style homes, but to each his own. They are synonomous with The Woodlands, and my Uncle who was one of the original Woodlands residents had one.

Indeed. CFISD is projecting another 2 HS after the 10 currently built or under construction before the District is entirely built out in 2020.

Here's the CFISD Map Katy ISD Map http://www.katyisd.org/files/services/comm...ns/map_2005.pdf Grand Parkway Segment 'E' Map

Is there a map of how far Bridglands extends? The ones I've seen didn't have it crossing Clay Rd into Katy ISD territory.

Is anyone going to mention the MASSIVE new Catholic Co-Cathedral being built downtown by St. Joseph's?

Oh jeezus...not more Woodlands evangelists. Seriously. It's not that great. In fact, its kind of creepy.

It still pisses me off to this day that my alma mater has gone downhill like it has because there's nothing that resembles the school I once attended. When I went there (class of '91), it was no different from Cy-Creek, Klein, Klein Forest, or McCullough. Today, Klein and Cy-Creek are pretty much the same as they always have been. McCullough is now The Woodlands HS/College Park and Klein Forest has gone the same route as Westfield.

When you consider how much growth has to take place to build ONE High School, it is truly amazing how fast this area has exploded.

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