“If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”—Mike Enzi Increasingly, regulators are seeking stakeholder engagement prior to adopting policy and regulations. So more voices are involved in regulatory review. If you are working on policy review on your […]
Carmen Kumpula
Message from the Chairman: Open Letter to the Houston Chronicle
My family has been part of the Houston real estate community for four generations starting with my grandparents developing rental homes in the Irvington and Ryan Additions and continuing to the current next generation of my children and nephews. […]
WHA Appoints Three New Board Members
At its September 27th Board Meeting, the West Houston Association appointed three new board members to fill vacancies. Rob Bamford, Vice President at Johnson Development Company and general manager of Cross Creek Ranch, will take over for out-going board member […]
Event Review: West Houston Flood Control Forum
Steve Costello and Russ Poppe spoke to a crowd of over 100 people at our September 15th Flood Control Forum. Both Costello and Poppe provided informative and timely presentations (available at this link) and made major announcements. Russ Poppe announced […]
What’s Not Being Said About MUDs
by Steve Spillette, CDS This week, the Houston Chronicle published an article about a Municipal Utility District and the dissatisfaction of some homeowners that the MUD might issue bonds, which they believe could raise they property tax rates. The article, […]
Event Review: A Radack Classic at the 2016 WHA County Issues Forum
Commissioner Steve Radack needed little introduction in what has turned into an annual tradition: the commissioner speaking at WHA’s County Issues Forum Luncheon, serving up a lot candid ideas with plenty of humor. Commissioner Radack started by saying, “After years […]
Is Retrofitting a Reclaimed Water System a Smart Economic Choice?
By Michael Bloom, R. G. Miller Engineers, Inc. Conventional wisdom suggests that the cost of retrofitting a “purple-pipe” system to treat and distribute treated wastewater to amenity ponds and irrigation areas far exceeds the resulting benefits, especially with treated water […]
Op-Ed: The Tax Day Flood by David Hightower
By David Hightower, President of The Energy Corridor Management District The “Tax Day Flood” is an appropriate name for what occurred on April 17, 2016. Like “Remember the Alamo”; “Remember the Tax Day Flood” should be a call to action. Tropical […]
University of Houston-Katy Campus
The University of Houston System has announced plans to purchase 46 acres and to build a state-of-the-art academic building in Katy. The new site will be known as UHS University Park. On May 19th, UH System regents approved the purchase […]
QPD Community Review: Cane Island’s METRO Van Program Attracts The Energy Corridor’s Attention
METRO STAR has partnered with Rise Communities, LLC, to develop a vanpool program for current and future resident of Cane Island. Cane Island is Rise’s master-planned community and WHA Quality Planned Development located near IH-10 and the new Cane Island […]