ATTENTION: Sienna Plantation Developer Files Case Against Their Own Residents!!!

Johnson Development Company has filed a case for libel against several Sienna residents in early August following the completion of the “No More Apartments” petition drive which garnered in excess of 1100 signatures that was submitted to Missouri City council on July 18th. The claim seems to be looking specifically at SiennaTalk.com (now MissouriCityTalk.com –> currently shut down because of this action) website which was used by residents, beginning in March, to discuss local issues when they were denied access to purchase ads in the resident's newsletter and post on the residents website (Siennanet.com). The case number is 05-CV-144185 and it was filed by John Keville, of Howrey LLP (a Houston Law Firm) on behalf of Sienna/Johnson development (Larry Johnson, President).

In May our completely developer controlled resident’s association, without non-voting membership approval, passed a very restrictive covenant adopted to curtail resident’s ability to even discuss these issues internally with other residents/neighbors. Since that time another attorney’s group, Roberts, Markel & Guerry of Houston, representing Johnson Development Co., issued a cease & desist order for dissemination of information within Sienna.

We will do our best to keep the community informed of this and other development actions as they arise along with keeping http://missouricitychatter.blogspot.com up an operating as long as possible. If you’d like to show your support for the efforts of those involved with the petition drive, then please e-mail city council, the local media and Johnson development representatives to let them know how you feel (see contacts below).

Stay in touch and keep informed.

Contact e-mails:

fbeditor@hcnonline.com -- Fort Bend Sun

bkcstar@earthlink.net -- Fort Bend Star

EricHansen@chron.com -- The Chronicle

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




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Committee for Responsible Development—MoCity Group
Responsible_dvlpmnt@yahoo.com
Missouri City, Texas