The boys at Colony Ridge are at it again.
This time there’s a big push to sell Terrenos Houston or as they also like to advertise, Terrenos Santa Fe, as a family friendly development, the perfect place for young families to buy property. The only problem? It’s not true.
What is true is there are hundreds of reports of rampant crime, drug dealing, prostitution and violence – the exact opposite conditions most of us would want our kids living in.
Kids at Colony Ridge and Terrenos Houston are, in fact, living in what some residents describe as Third World conditions with flooding, shoddy home construction, bad roads, infrastructure issues, and traffic jams.
Meanwhile, the local school district is salivating over the numbers of kids coming in from this area as each child is worth approximately $5,500 in school funding for the district according to a report by ABC13. So they have every incentive to look the other way as Colony Ridge developers rake in the bucks duping families into buying land in the area, residents say.
We are asking why is John Harris’ Colony Ridge so eager to attract young families with a promise of paradise and great schools when really, the living conditions for families and children are widely described as subpar, even dangerous?
And how do we get this to stop?
The developers’ promo videos showcase a fantasy that simply is not true: New schools; ribbon cutting ceremonies, athletics, beautiful classrooms and rolling fields of grass. One Instagram photo even reads (in Spanish) “Antonino visited us today with his family. Everything we do is for them!!”
Hmmmm. Really?
Based on reports from families in the area, the well-being of the hundreds of children who live there seems to be the last thing on any of the developers’ minds.
Here are some examples of recently reported crimes in the area:
- Missing people.
- A couple spotted trying to lure young children into a van.
- Gunshots ringing out on a regular basis
- Prostitution and drug dealing
- The FBI investigating child pornography in the area
- Loud music and partying going on until 6 a.m.
Eerily similar to the crime spike reported in Montgomery County near John Harris’ Kings Colony.
What seems clear to residents who have filed complaints is that kids are an excuse for officials to raise property values and eventually taxes. Even as they try to hide this fact with a bond. Kids are not the reason for the neighborhood in the first place. Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
Said one of the property owners:
“If it was truly about kids, the developers of Colony Ridge would make sure that families had clean water – which they do not – had safe streets (which they do not), and were living in crime free conditions. Which they are not. They wouldn’t risk their housing by not disclosing flooding. They would make sure the sewers were channeled properly and that there was better quality of life with better streets, better commutes, and jobs in the area. And they definitely would not be taking photos of themselves in attractions that are more than 40 minutes away (without traffic) and trying to pass them on as extremely near the lands.”
Another resident offered:
“Road conditions are awful, my children have to get up at 5am to ride the bus and be on school on time. I can’t say how many times they have been late to school because of traffic. My youngest daughter comes home telling me how she was afraid in the bus because of all the potholes and how the bus took so long to drop them off in school. This is an awful burden to my family since we all have to leave our home super early just to be on time.”
A resident of the neighboring Plum Grove wrote:
“We have increased crime, drunk driving, vehicle break ins, and also our children’s education suffers from being kept awake at all hours from music and gunfire.”
A previous resident of Peach Creek Forest right by Colony Ridge’s development wrote:
“Then the final blow was my neighbor having the FBI looking for him for child pornography, or trafficking, or something of that nature. We decided to move […]”
Meanwhile schools are overcrowded as the district take in apparently $5,500 in state funding per child who lives in the area. So the more kids the better, right?
Does it all really just come down to money for John Harris and the school districts and politicians who make decisions about Colony Ridge? It sure looks that way from afar and from up close too…
Here are some other links you can peruse to learn more:
Property value/taxes
Doubled Growth in Schools – Unexpected
Bus Accident in a Ditch – Plum Grove
Couple Tries to Lure Children into Van
Asking for $150 Million for Another High School
Shots fired at Plum Grove Volunteer Fire Department During Family: Dinner Night
https://abc13.com/plum-grove-volunteer-fire-department-shot-at-family-dinner-night-truck/6232725/
Woman Found Beaten and Chained to a Bed:
Burglary:
Shooting in Plum Grove:
http://montgomerycountypolicereporter.com/shooting-in-plum-grove/
Truck and Tractor Theft in Montgomery County:
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