![]() ![]() ![]() And now they want to just throw that away. There was a land use plan that was a compromise in 2018, that was adopted by the city, and the point of that was to set the limits in these regional activity centers of what size, scale they could build. Miller further said that the issue with the city was not anti-apartment. Diana Miller, a long-time community advocate in Sugar Land, will fill the role of Treasurer.” He also currently leads grass roots political programs at the local level, including candidate campaign management. Johnson has led political strategic planning at both the National and State level. Those activities include candidate recruitment, candidate training programs, media relations, and candidate forums. Marcus Johnson, Director of Strategic Initiatives, where he will direct committee members in the planning and implementation of political activities that will further advance the goals of Sugar Land Votes PAC. “We are now moving forward with a grass roots community plan to take back City Council. In a media advisory about the PAC’s press conference before the joint council and P&Z meeting, Miller stated that, “Over the past months, Mayor Zimmerman has been so emboldened so as to file a frivolous complaint against a P&Z Commissioner. The fight, Miller said, is about high-density development recalling the time when 1,200 apartments at Imperial were first proposed in 2011. “One of the things that we want to do is let our council people know that they need to be responsive to the citizens because what we saw with the Imperial development was they…citizens were completely ignored in that process and it’s been a decade of fighting the same issue over and over in Sugar Land,” said Miller. And I believe the reason they want to do that is because they have a developer right now who is cash-flush, doesn’t need any financing, who has bought 50 acres at Telfair, 90 acres at Imperial, and has put out a press release saying that they will submit their plans the fourth quarter of 2023, and they will start construction first quarter 2024. And they can make that decision in as little as 45 days. Miller said the approval process for major development programs with the code change “will go to city staff. This change takes it out of the hands of planning and zoning and out of the hands of city council. They want to continue being a part of the process. “They want to have their public hearings. The joint meeting was to be about discussing recommended updates to a draft mixed-use zoning code and review community feedback on the development code proposing two mixed-use zoning districts.Īnd before the joint meeting started, Miller said the PAC’s goal is “to have in place council members that will truly be responsible to the citizens,” noting that the residents overwhelmingly don’t support the code change. ![]() They were in the foyer of Sugar Land’s city hall about 30 minutes before a joint meeting of the Sugar Land City Council and Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission was about to take place in council chambers last Wednesday, July 19. ![]() “We’re going to go out to recruit and possibly change city council,” said Marcus Johnson, resident of Stafford and Director of Strategic Initiatives, who was joined by local realtor Diana Miller, both of them in their capacity as representatives of Sugar Land Votes, a newly formed Political Action Committee (PAC). ![]()
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