The City of Sugar Land will partner with the Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce to present a State of the City Address focusing on the city’s 2010 accomplishments. This is the third year that the city has presented an annual summary of activities to residents.
The community is invited to attend the program to be held Jan. 14 at the Sugar Land Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, located at 16090 City Walk at the corner of U.S. Highway 59 and State Highway 6.
Breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m., followed at 8 a.m. with a presentation of 2010 Sugar Land achievements and a look at exciting activities on the horizon. Residents can register at www.fortbendchamber.com.
I would hope that at some point in the not too distant future that Sugar Land will actually take the steps to gain control of the ETJ that’s not theirs, west of the city’s airport. Now THAT would be an accomplishment. I don’t want to repeat everything I have said before with this issue of the land and neighborhoods immediately west of the city’s airport, how this needs to be absorbed into Sugar Land for its strategic location and other reasons, how residents want it, that area MUD is already providing services to Sugar Land, etc. New Territory used to be in Houston ETJ, until Sugar Land took it in… Sugar Land stopped too soon.
I also read Sugar Land annexed the land next to Chelsea Harbor and then rezoned it to be for expansion of a new business park. What Sugar Land does to Chelsea is not right, they do that yet they refuse to take the steps needed to bring that area into Sugar Land ETJ. Sugar Land is going to have bearing down on it all of the ill-planned Houston-style development, too many apartments, ugly strip centers etc…. before long more crime spilling into New Territory and Telfair, because Sugar Land does nothing.
Did you know that one of the city’s parks is even NORTH of this area that has asked again and again to be in Sugar Land ETJ? Duhacsek Park. The city is GIVEN a park, yet still refuses the requests of residents south of that area to take them in an ETJ swap. http://www.sugarlandtx.gov/parks_recreation/index.asp
SLCC (city council) might start off with an apology to the residents of FCCA for attempting to pass costs to them for their 18 million dollar parks project that they pushed on our board.