Coverage Reaches AHRC Media Services (Nation-wide multi-million hit consumer website and media network) on Texas SLAPP-suit by Johnson Development!

Johnson Development Drops SLAPP-suit Against the Committee for Responsible Development

THEY CONTINUE TO TARGET A YOUNG FAMILY AND FIRST TIME HOMEBUYER
August 03, 2006

By Chris Calvin, Ph.D.
Copyright MCCNews 2006

Missouri City, Texas -

Johnson Development Corporation of Houston, Texas, mega-developers of Riverstone, Sienna Plantation, Silver Lake and many other master-planned communities (Larry Johnson, President) dropped part of their lawsuit against the committee of homeowners who protested against up to 2700 apartments being brought to this community by them (but continues to target another Sienna family).

This strike case tactic, so common with developers involved in NIMBY (not in my back-yard) protests, tracks back to early last year when 40-50 residents, representing 7 area HOAs and thousands of independent homeowners, organized and merged several petition drives garnering over 1100+ signatures and presented them, along with a city ethics complaint violations against Mayor Allen Owen of Missouri City, for accepting nearly 60% of his campaign contributions over the previous 5 year period from Houston mega-development companies doing business in this area and not recusing himself when voting on the controversial apartment plan. These actions, by the banker/mayor Owen, lead to his being challenged in the '06 mayoral race for the first time in over a decade by Greyling Poats of Missouri City with many of these issues playing as central themes in the election. . . (Click title link above for the rest of the story).


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Comment- AHRC Media Services, a consumer reporting news agency, with news feeds to 60+ major markets and affiliates in all 50 states publishes homeowners SLAPP-suit struggle in Texas here in Sienna Plantation (Missouri City, TX).