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  • The City of Hilshire Village, Texas, (the “City”) acting pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 35.106, provides this notice regarding Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ("Title II") and its applicability to the services, programs, and activities provided by the City.

    Policy.  Title II establishes requirements for making the services, programs, and activities of a local government entity more accessible to disabled persons.  It is the policy of the City to comply with the requirements of Title II and to make its services, programs, and activities reasonably available to disabled persons, as long as that can be done without fundamentally altering the nature of its services, programs or activities, or imposing an undue financial or administrative burden on the City and its taxpayers.

    Reasonable accommodation.  The City, upon reasonable notice, will provide auxiliary aids/services where necessary to enable effective communications between the City and a disabled person.  The City will also make reasonable modifications to its services, programs, and activities where necessary in order to allow disabled persons an equal opportunity to enjoy those services, programs, and activities.  The City will not impose any surcharges to cover the costs of providing auxiliary aids/services or making modifications to its services, programs, or activities.

    City contacts.  Anyone who believes that, because of their disability, they require an auxiliary aid/service for effective communication with the City, or a modification to its services, programs, and activities to enable their participation, may contact the City Administrator or the City Secretary at 713-973-1779 for assistance. 

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About Hilshire Village

Location & Demographics

Founded in 1955, the City of Hilshire Village is an urban oasis nestled inside Houston, Texas in Harris County.  With an area of about one-third of a square mile, the community is the smallest of six clustered, incorporated municipalities known as the Memorial Villages.

Hilshire Village is a zoned municipality with a population of 811 according to the 2022 U.S. Census and comprised of approximately 304 residences, small businesses and churches.

Our History

In the 1940s Mr. Frank Bruess and his mother left Missouri for Texas and purchased 30 acres of land near Houston in his new state.  By the early 1950s construction of Hilshire Village began.  Initially residents Frank and Georgia Bruess had intended to name the development ‘Tall Pines’.  However, the name ‘Hilshire’ itself was inspired by a book Mr.  Bruess was reading while traveling to Boston about country estate in England called ‘Hillshire Village’.  Mr. Bruess adopted the name ‘Hilshire’ with one ‘L’ and Hilshire Manor was the name recorded on all the deeds in the Harris County map records for that period.

In 1954, there was a growing desire to Incorporate because the Village learned the City of Houston expressed intentions to extend the city limits to Brittmore Road.  The residents wanted to incorporate to avoid excessive water rates and higher city taxes, to form own zoning laws and to set speed limits at a lower limit.  The name of the Village was “Long Point Town” and on December 11, 1954 a general election was held to incorporate, but the measure was defeated. Another attempt to incorporate was made collectively with the other five Memorial Villages to primarily to preserve zoning rights, but that referendum was also defeated.

On January 17, 1955, thirty-seven residents filed an application to Judge Robert R. Casey for incorporation.  In spite of a petition filed for a restraining order to hold an election to incorporate, none of the sixty-nine petitioners appeared at the trial on February 8, 1955.  On April 9, 1955 an election was held at the Scout House at 1203 Wirt Road to incorporate Hilshire Village and of 119 ballots cast, 65 were in favor, 51 against and 3 improperly marked.  On April 15, 1955 Hilshire Village was declared incorporated.

On July 9, 1955 another election was held to select a Mayor, five Councilmembers and a Marshall.  The first City Council was Mayor Bill English and Councilmembers Harry Brown, Robert J. Hitchcock, Alwin J. Bruess, G. Robert Jordan, Lloyd B. Sheppard, and Marshall Travis Riley.

The first Council meeting was held at the Ridgecrest School but they learned that they could not pass legislation outside the Village city boundaries.  Council Meetings were later held at the Scout House on Wirt Road.

Sources:  Jerry Riley, Hilshire Village Civic Club Historian, Handbook of Texas Online

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