I am new to Circle C Ranch and attended my first meeting on the 6th of January at Kiker. I was amazed how the meeting was conducted and members were not even allowed to voice there concerns. One member said excuse me and was completely ignored. No one was allowed to ask questions, they just moved the meeting along to avoid it. O?’Reilly did pass some papers out at the end to write questions on, and read a few of them with a smirk on his face like they were ridiculous questions to begin with.

I am really concerned with the BOD and how Circle C is being ran with out little regards to the people who live here. My main concern about the HEB is traffic and the reduction of trees. I hope other members will get involved so we don?’t ruin the place we live in. The answer is we need to expand the board!!! It is clear that we don?’t even have a voice in the community we live in.

Backbay and others,

Backbay and others,

I'm with you. O'Reilly not letting his neighbors speak and ask questions is unacceptable. How can even his close friends support this ''shut up'' the residents tactic?

Over 100 of your neighbors have signed the reduce the size of HEB petition and the Save the Trees petition. (paper & online)

What can you do about it?
How can you have a voice?
log on and sign these 2 petitions

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/cctrees/petition.html
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/CCheb/petition.html

I'll be taking the the petitions to zoning to have our voices heard.

Sal Costello

Welcome to our HOA choas !!

Please excuse the mess.

We are in the midst of cleaning house, from the top down.

What you withnessed last night was the result of backdoor politics, secret meetings, undocumented meeting (i.e. illegal meeting) and a compromise that the BOD manages, not the HOA members. The memebers have not been surveyed or polled and while all that information is supposed to be made available, it's not.

What really happened last night is the tail was wagging the dog.

All of us certainly wanted an opportunity to question the developers and HEB rep, but that was not the case, was it ?

Instead, Andi Roush suggested that this meeting was part of the CCHOA ad hoc committee's work, and that hand out was what they had considered - THAT WAS NOT A WRITTEN AGREEMENT.

Stratus has yet to make any of the things the talked about, legally binding. That is what needs to happen when and IF they want to get the zoning change.

Never mind that the apartments are inappropriate - the truth is that the appartment's are a very, very bad market position. There are two huge, upscale appartment complexs on both sides of the MOPAC / Slaughter intersection - both are for sale and have no buyers !! (They were sweathing the Wal-Mart Supercenter even more than we were.)


This Escarpment Village isn't all that bad an idea, but neigher Stratus nor HEB has committed to ANYTHING on paper - with CCHOA, the city, or with any other HOA group. This is all hot air right now. Lofty ideas, and pretty pictures.

The best thing that could have come out of that meeting last night, is for the CCHOA ad hoc committee to get the message - those 29 points that New Villages of Western Oaks wants are a pretty good start and the I think that many of them were included in the CCHOA document we were handed. BUT, again, this is all proposed stuff - none of it is binding.

There are deed restrictions in place from the 2002 CCHOA / Stratus Properties agreement. That was a good deal and well executed. Now Stratus wants to change those plans, and frankly, I would be the first to agree that their HEB and shopping center is a good plan. It can be better, however, and we have to get that in WRITTING......>BEFORE THEY GO FOR THEIR ZONING HEARING !!!


Do you know which neighborhoods CCHOA is working with on this ????


- - - - - NONE - - - - -


CCHOA doesn't coopoerate or work with other HOA's. They are too important (and too secretive) to do that.

I was there

I was there as well. Not being able to speak at our own meeting is just not right. The meeting was scheduled for 2 hrs but was cut short and residents were not allowed to verbally ask questions. I did not bring a pen, so I could not write out my questions.

What country is Circle C in again?