November 2024

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The PayPal Payment links below will allow RESIDENTIAL Members only to pay their 2025 CAFMC Dues online with just a few quick clicks. COMMERCIAL or BUSINESS Members should click HERE instead.

NOTICE: Dues Payments and other contributions to The Civic Association of The First Montrose Commons, Inc. ARE NOT DEDUCTIBLE AS CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL TAX PURPOSES.

Dues Remain $20 per person per year – payable each January. When paying for several members, please remember to use the qty spinner to pay for all in one transaction. – It saves us the cost of the per transaction fees.

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Upcoming Meetings

Montrose TIRZ 27 Meetings

Visit here to learn more and register for virtual meetings.

Next Meeting Monday, Feb 16

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Havens Center
1827 W Alabama
6:30pm – 7:00 pm

(Safe Routes to School)

The Civic Association of The First Montrose Commons

Feb 17, 2026 7:00pm

The Montrose Center
401 Branard
Room 106

Families, Kids, Renters, Neighborhood Business Owners, all are welcome! (No pets)

Come help us build a Better First Montrose Commons – We Need YOUR Input.

Visit
Neartown.org

to sign up for notices, check meeting agenda, or learn which Civic Association serves your neighborhood.

The Women’s Home
607 Westheimer
Enter via door next to parking lot

November Newsletter

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SPARK Park at AIMS Public Hours

The SPARK Park at AIMS in First Montrose Commons is open to the public when school is not in session during the hours listed below. As with all HISD-owned property – NO GLASS or ALCOCHOL or SMOKING is permitted at any time.

We ask that you NOT WEAR METAL CLEAT SHOES on the soccer pitch as they are damaging the artificial turf.

A copy of the SPARK Park’s operating rules can be downloaded here.

Hours:

School Days 4pm-6:15pm

Non School Days 7am – 6:15pm
Central STANDARD Time

NO PETS OF ANY KIND ARE EVER PERMITTED INSIDE THE SPARK PARK – whether in containers or not! The artificial turf cannot easily be cleaned and disinfected.

NOTICE – If you have an event in the SPARK Park you are REQUIRED TO REMOVE ALL TRASH, DECORATIONS, FOOD & DRINK CONTAINERS. Leaving these in the trash bins provided attracts animal scavengers at night (rats, raccoons, possums). Please help us keep our park clean and healthy – LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND!

You should report persons trespassing in the SPARK Park (soccer games, etc.) after hours to
HISD POLICE DISPATCH 713-892-7777

NOTICE- The soccer pitch is for use by children and their accompanying parents, coaches, or guardians only. Adults using the pitch will be asked to leave to make it available to the children.

Special Video of TIRZ 27 Upper Montrose Project

FMC – Other news

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Download your copy of the Texas Tenants’ Rights Handbook – prepared by the Texas Young Lawyers Association & the State Bar of Texas, this is your most complete and factual source of information about your rights!

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You may also pay your Annual Dues via check made out to CAFMC, 603 W Main St., Houston, TX 77006-5618 in the amount of $20 per person- Please include the email address(es) of everyone for whom you are paying.

November 18, 2025
New Board Elected for 2026

Nicholas Whitaker, President
Andrew Badachhape, Vice President
Natalie Matuszczak, Treasurer & Dir. of Membership
Richard Peoples, Secretary
Marlene Matterson, Dir. of Activities
Bruce Clark, Dir. of Neighborhood Safety
Stephen Longmire, Historian

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

NOTICE

After years of lobbying – it is announced that the center reversible lane of West Alabama Street between Brandt Street and Shepherd St. will be closed. This center lane will be converted back to its original configuration as a LEFT TURNS ONLY LANE 24hr daily.

Click HERE to watch the Facebook stream of the Livable Centers Study from Sept 10

If you see work being done within the FMC Historic District but there has not been an Application for Certificate of Appropriateness sign posted – please report it immediately to 311 and the FMC Historian. We must all work together to protect and preserve our historic structures!

HPD’s Westheimer Storefront is now permanently closed and demolished to make way for The Montrose Collective. Please continue to report incidents to HPD via the non-emergency number 713-884-3131.

POLICE PATROLS
ARE
DATA DRIVEN

NO REPORTS = NO PATROLS

The No Trespass Affidavit is a particularly powerful tool to use to prevent vagrants from sleeping on your property. With it in place, HPD officers can arrest trespassers without you being present and charge them with a Class B Misdemeanor – resulting in at least 24 hrs incarceration.

Special Link to Permit Presentation from 2-21-2017 meeting

Just click the image below:

AVOID PARKING WITHIN 30 FEET OF STOP SIGNS OR CROSSWALKS – It is ILLEGAL & you WILL BE TICKETED!

DO NOT BLOCK DRIVEWAYS – YOU WILL BE TOWED AT YOUR EXPENSE

DO NOT PARK FACING THE WRONG WAY

Why am I not receiving FMC emails or Newsletters?

FMC sends out monthly email blasts using MailChimp, an email marketing provider that does not charge our non-profit organization to send you notices and newsletters. Although we’re very careful to format our emails to avoid spam filters, some of you have reported that you’re not getting any of our announcements or newsletters.

It may be that you have unsubscribed from our email list. This is especially easy to do if you are using the iPhone iOS Mail client, because it puts the unsubscribe from this list button right below the message header in emails. If you think this has happened to you – the fix is easy – click on the SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER FREE item on the left menu on our home page. Or Resubscribe by clicking HERE.

Most of the problems are connected with the GMAIL email service, which automatically categorizes every incoming message according to its own inscrutable and oft-changing algorithms. For example, Google often considers emails containing links to be “Promotions” and files them in GMail’s Content/Promotions folder – a folder that is not normally visible to most GMail users. The surest way around this feature is to add president@firstmontrosecommons.org to your GMail Contacts – since GMail does not classify emails from your contacts as Promotions or as Spam.

Another method – which instructs GMail not to classify emails from FMC as Promotions – can be found here

Click the image for instructions on how to prevent GMail from sending your FMC mail into the hidden Promotions Folder

Harris County Mosquito Control

Click on the image below to go to the Harris County Mosquito Control page for up to date information on mosquito populations and control activities.

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