Comments on: Leading Off

By: Jeff Duffey

Jeff Duffey — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:36:45 +0000

Lakewooder,

That parking lot that used to be Abrams Road that is now a parking lot means that zoning laws had to change just as they should for Whole Foods. Change happens and zoning laws change with the times. Yes, even in Lakewood. If they didn’t then Swiss Avenue and countless other historic districts wouldn’t be what they are today. Downtown Dallas had to go through a tremedous amount of zoning law changes. Think Arts District.

But your argument is really this: YOU don’t want the zoning to change so it shouldn’t. But if YOU do, then it should.

I have a feeling I know which argument is going to win this battle.

By: Wylie H.

Wylie H. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:19:14 +0000

Re: the marijuana cigarette. I’m confused, on the one hand, there is enough of the cigarette left to definitively state that it was, in fact, a marijuana cigarette. On the other hand, there is not enough of the cigarette left to say that it was legally marijuana.

Isn’t it one or the other: either the marijuana cigarette exists, in which case the legal system applies; or it doesn’t, in which case the chief should shut his mouth.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:35:15 +0000

“Youth is wasted.”

By: dallasdano

dallasdano — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:22:57 +0000

“The juveniles, girls ages 12 and 13 years old, were remanded to their parents’ custody after police did not file charges because there was not enough of the cigarette left to process as evidence, Adams said Tuesday.”

Please…it’s not that they didn’t have enough to process as evidence…I’m sure it’s because of who these girls’ parents are…or what they might have found if they searched the parents.

Classic Highland Park coverup by the HP popo.

And for the chief to be shocked that DARE isn’t working…he needs to get real.

By: Satan's Cabana Girl

Satan's Cabana Girl — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:35:58 +0000

Re: The HIGHland Park juvie joint-puffers

You know these HP kids get the best stuff, too!

This totally brings to mind the George Bernard Shaw quote: “Youth is wasted on the young.” And so are the good drugs…

By: Lakewooder

Lakewooder — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:20:14 +0000

Mr Duffey that parking lot you describe in front of Scalini’s etc. is the former Abrams Road, which you would know if you knew anything about the area.

I guess you weren’t around for the Abrams Bypass battles which resulted in Harrell Park.

Sorry but people take ‘Downtown Lakewood’ seriously and want the best for the best neighborhood in the best city in the best country in the world (to paraphrase Doc Harrell).

By: Jeff Duffey

Jeff Duffey — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:26:09 +0000

I saw the Whole Foods conceptual drawings at a neighborhood meeting and it will be amazing for Lakewood and the surrounding neighborhoods. And I never knew Abrams had a “Main St. feel” to it to begin with? Cantina Laredo, Scalini’s and Snow Pea all have a parking lot in between them and Abrams. Mrs. McAlester’s suggestion that Whole Foods should front to Abrams is ridiculous. Maybe she could point out a grocery store in Dallas that fronts to a major through street. Kroger on Mockingbird? No. Tom Thumb on Mockingbird? No. Albertsons on Mockingbird? No. Central Market and Tom Thumb on Lovers? No.

Whole Foods is doing Lakewood – and Dallas – a favor and people like Virginia McAlester (and those who support her) are spitting in their faces. They don’t have to put up with their BS and I’m afraid it’s only a matter of time before Whole Foods tells Lakewood to shove it. Then, Mrs. McAlester can enjoy the boarded up Minyard building for a few more years.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:46:52 +0000

Soo…. The PD idea for any design on that property is 20 years old? Cause thats exactly what it sounds like an 80’s “mini-mall” like structure along Abrams with a “sea of parking” in the back along Gaston. This sounds worse then the existing stucture. At least its front opens to both Abrams and Gaston at the corner. Nah. I think I’d rather stick eith Whole Foods’ archetects well paid design.

By: Michael Davis

Michael Davis — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:37:43 +0000

I look forward to hearing the Whole Foods case at the CPC…it should be interesting.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:26:43 +0000

Money quote from the HP story:

“This is a slap in the face of our D.A.R.E. program,” Adams said. “We’re spending thousands of dollars trying to teach kids to not do things like this, and then it happens at the middle school where we teach it. The police department is upset …”

Oh haw haw!

Obviously, the answer is to step up the DARE campaign. They need much, much more of the same tactics if they ever hope to be effective.

‘ere…