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community. The country club is located at 2910 Royal Oaks Club Drive,Royal Oaks Country Club Amenities and Info
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property. The country club portion was the first

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built in the Houston City limits in fifty years.Rutledge, Tanya.
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History

Andrau Airpark closed in 1998. Sunrise Colony Co. developed Royal Oaks Country Club. The company selected the site to develop a community because of the location in proximity to several business districts (it is immediately west of the Westchase business district),

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, and

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(via the Sam Houston Tollway (Beltway 8) which runs about a mile east). Builders that agreed to develop houses in the complex include Abercrombie Custom Homes, Charles R. Martin and Associates, Jonathon Custom Estate Homes, King Residential Group, Masterpiece Homes, and McVaugh Custom Homes. As of September 8, 2000 the community developers sold 204 houses, including 34 of the 43 estate houses.Royal Oaks Country Club grabs limelight near The Galleria area
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Location and composition

Royal Oaks Country Club is in close proximity to Richmond Avenue and Wilcrest Avenue. The community developers planned to establish 900 single family and estate houses; of the houses 43 were to be estate houses. As of 2000 the prices were to be set between $300,000 and over $3 million. The community offered 26 house designs. The elevations range up to . The Royal Oaks community occupies of land. The country club portion occupies of land. The golf course takes of land. Access to and from the community is controlled by a video-monitored gatehouse, which is staffed 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. A masonry wall surrounds the community.

Demographics

it was one of several communities that attracted upper income Mexican citizens. Wealthy Mexicans living in Houston prefer to live in gated communities with private security patrols as the environment is similar to that of wealthy neighborhoods in Mexico.

Neighborhood services

Members of the community have a subdivision-wide intranet and a fiber-optic network. The community offers executive, golf, sports club and spa, and social club and swim memberships.

Government and infrastructure

The

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operates Fire Station 83 Royal Oaks, a part of Fire District 83. Station 83, a three bay station, has an ambulance, an engine, and a squad; the station houses about nine firefighters per each four-hour shift. The area around what is now Station 83 experienced a wave of construction of high density housing, which stressed the existing emergency infrastructure services. The city responded, holding a groundbreaking for Station 83 on October 8, 2002. The fire department assumed ownership of the station on February 14, 2005. On March 2, 2005 firefighters moved into the station. On June 1, 2005 ribbon-cutting ceremony was held.Fire Station 83
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District F covers Royal Oaks Country Club.

Education

Public schools

Families are zoned to schools in the

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. In 2008 John Hansen, an Alief ISD board member and a resident of Royal Oaks Country Club, stated that Royal Oaks was "by far the most expensive real estate in the Alief school district and very few of the children attend Alief ISD schools."Martin, Betty L.
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''. November 12, 2008. Retrieved on April 3, 2014. Residents are zoned to:
Outley Elementary School
with bilingual students zoned to Youens Elementary School.
Budewig Intermediate School
for regular and bilingual students - The school is named after a firefighter at Fire Station 76, who is an alumnus of Alief Hastings. The cost to build the school was $12,500,000.

All Alief ISD residents are assigned high schools through a lottery. Outcomes include Elsik,

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. The district also maintains two magnet schools,

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and

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. In 2008 the Alief ISD proposed raising the property tax rate to $1.34 per $100 appraised value, 7.5 cents above the rate for 2007, with an election scheduled for November 20, 2008. A group of homeowners in Royal Oaks named Property Tax Votes Alief Area campaigned against the increase.

Private schools

The Village School in the

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area has a bus service to Royal Oaks Country Club.
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Colleges and universities

The area is a part of the

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district. Betty L. Martin of the ''

'' wrote that Alief ISD voters had "overwhelmingly" approved the annexation of HCC into the tax base. The Property Tax Votes Alief Area group has protested that proposal on November 4, 2008.

Parks and recreation

The community hosts a , par-72 Fred Couples signature golf course. In addition it houses a clubhouse, a sports club and spa complex, a tennis complex, an aquatic center, and a restaurant. The club and spa complex includes another clubhouse.

Gallery

File:RoyalOaksBridge.JPG, Royal Oaks bridge

References

External links

Royal Oaks Country Club

Sunrise Colony Company
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