Comments on: Judge Orders Mo. City To Turn Over Email About Quail Valley Country Club Condemnation http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/07/15/39007 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:22:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: B.Wagner http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/07/15/39007/comment-page-1#comment-2485 B.Wagner Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:50:44 +0000 http://www.fortbendnow.com/?p=39007#comment-2485 I agree that the golf course was on a distruction course .. The city needed to do something but to pour millions of dollars into property that they dont have clear title to is ridiculous. I wouldnt put a new air conditioner into a home that I had just put ernest money down on. I believe that there are probably 2 to 3 percent of the citizens of Missouri City who actually use the services. What about the other 97 to 98 perceent of its citizens, How can they use this amount of money on a course when they cant even repair their own sidewalks? In First Colony, they were so much in a hurry to have First Colony in the tax base in 94 and 95 they violated their own landscape ordinance and allowed residents to move into homes that violated the city landscape ordinance that doesnt allow trees within so many feet of the sidewalk. Greed, greed, greed. If the city violated their own ordinance and allowed trees, then they should be responsible for the affect that these trees produce.. Now they put citizens in the middle of the HOA and the city.. HOA mandates the trees and the city wont repair sidewalks until the trees are cut..Root barriers wont work because of destabilization of the tree.. Confirmed by city urban forester.. Why cant this city have services that help more citizens than just a few of the council and mayors buddies. Im afraid that we in Misery City havent seen the tax increases caused by those who pray to the golfing god. I agree that the golf course was on a distruction course .. The city needed to do something but to pour millions of dollars into property that they dont have clear title to is ridiculous. I wouldnt put a new air conditioner into a home that I had just put ernest money down on. I believe that there are probably 2 to 3 percent of the citizens of Missouri City who actually use the services. What about the other 97 to 98 perceent of its citizens,

How can they use this amount of money on a course when they cant even repair their own sidewalks? In First Colony, they were so much in a hurry to have First Colony in the tax base in 94 and 95 they violated their own landscape ordinance and allowed residents to move into homes that violated the city landscape ordinance that doesnt allow trees within so many feet of the sidewalk. Greed, greed, greed. If the city violated their own ordinance and allowed trees, then they should be responsible for the affect that these trees produce.. Now they put citizens in the middle of the HOA and the city.. HOA mandates the trees and the city wont repair sidewalks until the trees are cut..Root barriers wont work because of destabilization of the tree.. Confirmed by city urban forester..

Why cant this city have services that help more citizens than just a few of the council and mayors buddies. Im afraid that we in Misery City havent seen the tax increases caused by those who pray to the golfing god.

]]> By: DosCentavos http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/07/15/39007/comment-page-1#comment-2477 DosCentavos Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:17:56 +0000 http://www.fortbendnow.com/?p=39007#comment-2477 Your analogy has some merit but we’re talking specifically about a City which has trouble projecting a business-friendly image. Eminent Domain is a very business-hostile approach to the problem. A more on the spot analogy is a homeowner in a Missouri City subdivision who had let his home get run down, siding was falling off, paint was peeling and the house was a real eyesore and an embarrassment to the subdivision. After about a year of fines and notices from the HOA and the City, the homeowner finally relented and got the work done on his home. Taking a businessman’s property due mainly to having a weedy lot is unfounded and arbitrary. Your analogy has some merit but we’re talking specifically about a City which has trouble projecting a business-friendly image. Eminent Domain is a very business-hostile approach to the problem. A more on the spot analogy is a homeowner in a Missouri City subdivision who had let his home get run down, siding was falling off, paint was peeling and the house was a real eyesore and an embarrassment to the subdivision. After about a year of fines and notices from the HOA and the City, the homeowner finally relented and got the work done on his home. Taking a businessman’s property due mainly to having a weedy lot is unfounded and arbitrary.

]]> By: conservative1 http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/07/15/39007/comment-page-1#comment-2471 conservative1 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:44:15 +0000 http://www.fortbendnow.com/?p=39007#comment-2471 No one is arguing that Renaissiance was a loser company trying to rape Quail Valley, only the value at which the land is worth, right? Renaissance probably has a case. You can't take private land for just any reason. On the other hand, you can't go over to someones house and take a crap in their living room, rub it into the carpet and not be asked to leave. Even if they invited you in the first place. No one is arguing that Renaissiance was a loser company trying to rape Quail Valley, only the value at which the land is worth, right?

Renaissance probably has a case. You can’t take private land for just any reason.

On the other hand, you can’t go over to someones house and take a crap in their living room, rub it into the carpet and not be asked to leave. Even if they invited you in the first place.

]]> By: moretransparency http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/07/15/39007/comment-page-1#comment-2451 moretransparency Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:45:51 +0000 http://www.fortbendnow.com/?p=39007#comment-2451 This is fascinating. This is fascinating.

]]> By: DosCentavos http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/07/15/39007/comment-page-1#comment-2448 DosCentavos Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:33:35 +0000 http://www.fortbendnow.com/?p=39007#comment-2448 It’s pretty hard for the City to argue that there was no private benefit to the Council Members, three of whom live on the Golf Course in high end homes, which stood to benefit more than any other homes in Missouri City. Eminent Domain should be reserved for those instances in which the necessity for condemnation is overwhelming not just a convenience for a certain section of the City. Obviously, the City hadn’t exhausted civil remedies and jumped at the chance to get the Course for a fraction of its value. This wasn’t a public necessity, it was a City overstepping its authority for political and economic gain. It’s pretty hard for the City to argue that there was no private benefit to the Council Members, three of whom live on the Golf Course in high end homes, which stood to benefit more than any other homes in Missouri City. Eminent Domain should be reserved for those instances in which the necessity for condemnation is overwhelming not just a convenience for a certain section of the City. Obviously, the City hadn’t exhausted civil remedies and jumped at the chance to get the Course for a fraction of its value. This wasn’t a public necessity, it was a City overstepping its authority for political and economic gain.

]]> By: Bob Dunn http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/07/15/39007/comment-page-1#comment-2446 Bob Dunn Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:37:20 +0000 http://www.fortbendnow.com/?p=39007#comment-2446 Sorry if it's unclear. Both sides are in discovery, both have been arguing over what documents can or should be provided to the other in preparation for the trial. Sorry if it’s unclear. Both sides are in discovery, both have been arguing over what documents can or should be provided to the other in preparation for the trial.

]]> By: mlee952 http://www.fortbendnow.com/2009/07/15/39007/comment-page-1#comment-2445 mlee952 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:34:09 +0000 http://www.fortbendnow.com/?p=39007#comment-2445 Who produced the documents? QVCC or Missouri City? "After more than two months of delays, QVCC finally produced some documents, close to Christmas 2008, for the city inspection. But, the city complained, QVCC “failed to organize them” in any orderly manner. Among those documents, Hightower said on Wednesday, were 3,524 pages - blank except for a time and date stamp." Who produced the documents? QVCC or Missouri City?

“After more than two months of delays, QVCC finally produced some documents, close to Christmas 2008, for the city inspection.

But, the city complained, QVCC “failed to organize them” in any orderly manner. Among those documents, Hightower said on Wednesday, were 3,524 pages – blank except for a time and date stamp.”

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