Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

===Suburban expansion===
[[Image:OysterCreekPark.JPG|right|thumb|Oyster Creek Park]]
An amendment on May 5, 1990, changed the composition of the city council, adding a mayor and two council members, each to be elected [[at-large]], to the five-member council. The at-large positions require election by a majority of voters, which reduces representation of any minority interests.

Throughout much of the 1990s, Sugar Land grew rapidly. The majority of residents are [[White-collar worker|white-collar]] and college-educated, working in [[Houston]]'s energy industry. An abundance of commercial development, with numerous low-rise office buildings, banks, and high-class restaurants, has taken place along both [[Interstate 69 in Texas|Interstate 69]]/[[U.S. Route 59 in Texas|U.S. Highway 59]] and [[Texas State Highway 6|State Highway 6]].

Sugar Land added to its tax base with the opening of [[First Colony Mall]] in 1996. The more than one-million-square-foot (100,000 m<sup>2</sup>) [[shopping mall|mall]], the first in Fort Bend County, is located at the busiest intersection of the city: Interstate 69/U.S. 59 and State Highway 6. The mall was named after the {{convert|10000|acre|adj=on}} master-planned community of First Colony.

In November 1997, Sugar Land annexed the remaining municipal utility districts of the {{convert|10000|acre|adj=on}} First Colony master-planned community, bringing the city's population to almost 60,000. This was Sugar Land's largest annexation at the time.