Champion Forest is a neighborhood in unincorporated northwestern Harris County,

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. It is located near Farm to Market Road 1960 and

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next to Willowbrook. Bill Murphy of the ''

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Eckels opposes country club plans. Champion Forest development won't worsen flooding, owner says
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'', Friday November 10, 2006. B2. Since 1980, the neighborhood has been designated as a

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. In 2006, Champion Forest opposed the Raveneaux Country Club's plan to build as many as five hundred townhouses and condominiums on its property and then maintain the rest of its property as a golf course. Robert Eckels, the county judge of Harris County who lived near Champion Forest, opposed the plan. Eckels asked the Harris County right-of-way division to see how much it would cost for the county to force from the country club as eminent domain so the acres could become parkland.

Education

Students living in Champions are zoned to the

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. The zoned schools are Brill Elementary School, Kleb Intermediate School and

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.Schools
", Champion Forest Homeowners' Association, retrieved on December 8, 2008.

References

External links

Champion Forest Homeowner's Association
{{coord, 30.002, -95.544, region:US-TX, display=title Populated places in Harris County, Texas