The city of Pearland will stage meetings next week on a proposal to target tracts adjacent to two residential areas for future use as neighborhood commercial centers. The idea is to designate neighborhood commercial "nodes" in the Pearland Future Land Use Plan for the intersection at McLean and Magnolia roads and for the one at Hatfield Road and W. Orange. The city also is staging at meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at Mary Marek Elementary School on overall recommendations for changes in the land-use plan.

Pearland City Council has agreed to set a uniform speed limit of 45 mph along Shadow Creek Parkway in anticipation of road construction there later this year. But that uniform speed limit won't be enforced until signs reflecting the change are erected, and that won't happen until time for the project to begin, Assistant City Manager Jon Branson said.

Kim Christensen photoThe Leggingtons have made hard work and community service equal priority in their careers — his in medicine and hers in the military.

Community activist Quanell X, right, was in Pearland on Thursday in support of the Rev. Milton Russaw, center, pastor of Christian Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, and Russaw's daughter Myyeshia Frederick, 22, left, over a Dec. 1 incident.: Johnny Hanson/ChroniclePearland police are conducting an internal investigation into accusations that an officer engaged in racial profiling when he arrested a black pastor's daughter and her fiance.