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The Woodlands, TX - an Terrific Place to Live

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The master plan of The Woodlands was developed based on a village concept that supports the widest choices of home styles and neighborhoods. The Woodlands has been the number one selling community in Houston and Texas since 1990.

The community is dedicated to maintaining its high quality of life through community service organizations like The Woodlands Community Association (WCA) and The Woodlands Association (TWA). The WCA and TWA offer hometown services by supporting The Woodlands Community Service Corporation (WCSC), which contracts with The Woodlands Division of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department and The Woodlands Fire Department for police and fire safety. Through the WCSC, the community associations also provide services such as trash collection, recycling and funding and maintenance of neighborhood parks, pools, and pathways. The community associations also organize programs such as The Woodlands Watch and provide a resident forum for community involvement.

The Woodlands Tx is located about 30 miles north of Downtown Houston. The Woodlands Tx is known for incorporating the piney woods surrounding it with urban and suburban development. It was named one of the best master-planned communities in the nation, winning the Award of Excellence in Special Development from the Urban Land Institute and the International Nations in Bloom Gold Award "ULI Award of Excellence".

Mitchell envisioned a multi-income community with a energetic business district that would serve as a model for and later become part of Houston. The result was a relatively affluent community, which seeks to remain independent from Houston.

The Woodlands is home to the Town Center Improvement District, The Woodlands Waterway, the 4 AAA Diamond Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, and The Woodlands Country Club, the only Community in the nation to have six world-class golf courses.

Almost all of the community is positioned in the city of Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). A small portion lies in the corporate limits and ETJ of Shenandoah. A small section east of I-45 (Harper's Landing) lies within the ETJ of Conroe. Conroe began annexation proceedings in 2006 for this area.

George P. Mitchell founded The Woodlands TX in 1974, and changed possession of The Woodlands in the 1990's to a joint partnership between Morgan Stanley and Crescent Real Estate Equities. In January of 2004, Crescent sold their interest in The Woodlands to the Rouse Company, a development company familiar with master-planned communities. In 2004, the Rouse Company was sold to General Growth Properties Inc., another shopping mall developer.

The Woodlands was initially financed in part under a $50 million dollar development loan guaranteed by The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) pursuant to the Title VII of the Housing Act of 1970 (New Communities Assistance Program.) The Woodlands was one of the few financially successful developments under this program and one of the few, which repaid the government guaranteed loan.
The initial planning of The Woodlands utilized many of the planning concepts and design consultants employed in other well-regarded new communities of that era such as Columbia Maryland and Irvine Ranch California. The original development plan for The Woodlands was unique in that it incorporated several of the environmental design principals espoused by Lan McHarg, a famous landscape architect, teacher and author of the seminal work "Design With Nature."

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