Video Minutes on Petition/Ethics Submissions Available--

This first appeared on MissouriCityTalk.com in July. Open discussion on this after viewing the city's steaming video is encouraged:


Ethics Complaints Filed on the Mayor
& Petition Against More Apartments in Sienna Delivered to Council-


The video minutes for the July 18th city council sessions are now available through the Missouri City website at http://www.ci.mocity.tx.us/streamfiles/2005_video/050718/050718.htm . The agenda item is listed as number 6 (about 30 minutes into the video). This is the open public session where residents from Sienna Plantation, Waterbrook, and Oakwick presented on issue related to development in this area. A formal ethics violation was also submitted in regard to resident treatment at some of these sessions, and questionable campaign contributions to our mayor over the last two election cycles were presented.

Many non-Missouri City corporations along with one of the largest land law firms in Houston were also on this contributions list, although the complaints were focused on developer contributions and the mayor’s insistence on supporting the apartments coming to Sienna this year. A second group is planned to be built near Waterbrook West just off Sienna Parkway when the toll road comes through.

Over 1100+ Sienna residents signed the petition against the second grouping being injected into this community by the Johnson Development Corporation which has been a consistent giver to the Owen’s campaigns. The enthusiastic crowd, made up of Oakwick, Waterbrook, West point, Waterbrook West and Silver Ridge and Sienna Plantation residents/citizens gave a warm reception for the area presenters.

Presenters at the July 18th session requested that the city amend the developers agreement and remove the second grouping of apartments and consider other alternatives such as privately held town homes, condominiums and garden homes which would not have the negative taxing impact that apartments do. As of this posting no action has been taken by the developer backed mayor (banking executive at Wells Fargo) on this issue. Please continue to contact the mayor and city council on this issue and others directly impacting our neighborhood. See contacts below:


--And you can join us in our efforts to stop additional apartments in this community by e-mailing us at responsible_dvlpmnt@yahoo.com .

City council contacts: Mayor@ci.mocity.tx.us; owenwall@wellsfargo.com; Council2@ci.mocity.tx.us; brjimerson@jimerson.net; bburton@ci.mocity.tx.us; Councila@ci.mocity.tx.us; ehrieiter@hal-pc.org; donsmith@ci.mocity.tx.us; Councilb@ci.mocity.tx.us; bkolaja@ci.mocity.tx.us; Council1@ci.mocity.tx.us

Developer contacts: http://www.johnsondevelopment.com/contactus.html --web contact

Larry Johnson-713-960-9977; larry@johnsondev.com
Chad Johnson-713-960-9977; chadj@johnsondev.com
Doug Goff-713-960-9977; dougg@siennaplantation.com


All information contained in this release are subject to the individual interpretation/bias of its author…



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