Editing Meadows Place, Texas (section)

==History==

Meadows Place began as the Meadows Municipal Utility District, which had been established in 1967.The Meadows Place development farmland was purchased by Ayrshire Corporation. In 1968, the first houses were constructed by Ayrshire Corporation, a second-generation family-owned company founded in 1946. Ayrshire has developed mix use property throughout the United States and Australia. The Meadows place development is representative of their development capabilities. Meadows incorporated on November 14, 1983, to avoid being annexed by [[Houston]]. In 1990, the city had 4,606 residents.<ref name="Handbook">"[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hlmkv Meadows, Texas]." [[Handbook of Texas Online]]. Retrieved on April 4, 2010.</ref> The population in 2010 was listed as 4,660 residents. In June 2012, Meadows Place received an award from Keep Texas Beautiful for a [[water reuse]] project that culminated in a beautiful new lake in the center of the city which, in addition to recreation, is used for irrigation of most of the city's parks land and baseball complex. So dramatic was the transformation, Meadows Place was asked to make a poster presentation at the 28th annual Water ReUse Symposium in [[Denver]], Colorado. The presentation—"No City is Too Small to Receive Benefits from Water Reuse"—met with such acclaim they were invited to share their story at an international water convention. Hundreds of people from the US, Canada, Mexico, even Sweden and Norway, have come to see how a small city with limited resources could bring such a project to fruition.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.fortbendstar.com/meadows-place-wows-audience-at-28th-annual-water-symposium/|title=Meadows Place wows audience at 28th annual Water Symposium|last=Daniels|first=Karen|date=2 October 2013|work=Fort Bend Start|access-date=14 January 2019}}</ref>