The Cinco Ranch Property Owners Association board of directors will not take up the controversial Cinco MUD 12 monument sign proposal during its regular December meeting next week.
Cinco Ranch Community Manager Michael Meagher has confirmed the MUD board request is not on the CRPA board’s Dec. 17 agenda. As it now stands, the residential association board will not take up the monument sign proposal until its Jan. 14 meeting.
Earlier this week, the board of directors for the MUD voted 3-1 to move ahead with its request to build eight new monument signs marking the entrance to Cinco Ranch. The signs would replace existing signs at The Grand Parkway at Cinco Ranch Boulevard and Westheimer Parkway.
Since the existing signs belong to the Cinco Ranch Property Owners Association, the association’s board of directors must approve the project before it can go forward.
In voting to move ahead with the request, the MUD board rejected the calls of a number of Cinco Ranch neighborhood representatives, as well as MUD board chair Stephanie Faulk, to delay approaching the CRPA board of directors until additional public outreach could be conducted. At the time of the vote, the MUD board was under the belief the CRPA board would consider the request at its Dec. 17 meeting.
Last week, the Cinco Ranch Landscape Maintenance Association voted 3-1 to approve the MUD board’s proposal. The Landscape Maintenance Association controls the public rights-of-way on major thoroughfares in Cinco Ranch.
The LMA approval of the project was in marked contrast to a vote by the Cinco Ranch Neighborhood Representatives Committee several weeks earlier. The NRC voted overwhelmingly to oppose the sign proposal.
An online survey of Cinco Ranch residents had similar results. By an almost 5-to-1 margin, those responding to the poll said they did not favor MUD board’s plan.
The $1.4 million proposal has come under fire since it was first made public in June. Many Cinco Ranch residents have criticized the sign project as a waste of money.
Others have accused the MUD board of attempting to divert public funds to a project that benefits only commercial areas, such as the LaCenterra shopping center, while ignoring the needs of a majority of Cinco Ranch residents.
