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Leading Off (Sort Of)

Posted on March 6th, 2008 7:52am by Zac Crain
Filed under Local News

1. I’m asking everyone here for a big favor. Don’t tell my wife more than 100 FAA badges are unaccounted for. She hates flying enough as is.

2. When you’re sheriff and you let inmates go home on their own on occasion, there is a chance voters might not reelect you.

3. Angela Hunt responded to my lengthy post about the city’s stalled development yesterday with a lengthy rebuttal (scroll down).

4 Comments to “Leading Off (Sort Of)”

Looking down on Turtle Creek @ March 6th, 2008 at 9:17 am

So which VIP is in town today? Enough DPD motorcycles for a motorcade at the Mansion. Does anyone know?
ROJ @ March 6th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

Maybe the Mansion is following Dunkin Donuts lead and giving out free pastry?
GMOM @ March 6th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

Ya, they were at the Muse’s last night, probably McCain? What’s funny is the motorcycle cops were the ones that lead funerals, ha!! The bad thing was the limos, buses, etc. were parked ON Preston, on the curve. HEY, PARK ON LAKESIDE. What if we parked on Preston. I don’t care who you are!!!
Lakewooder @ March 6th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Back to Fairfield and Angela Hunt (whom I greatly admire).

To you who are newbies, you must put yourselves in the places of longtime East Dallasites who saw many square miles of single-family homes rezoned for apartments during the 1950s. Multitudes of mansions on Ross, Gaston and Live Oak were torn down for apartments which quickly deteriorated. Henderson was zoned commercial and the single family homes turned into businesses which didn’t take long to become a slum (it’s only taken 50 years to turn that around). East Dallas was only successful in getting large areas such as Junius Heights backzoned to single-family a decade or so ago.

I was for Whole Foods trying to follow the long-thought out PD for Lakewood Shopping Center (isn’t that Sheffie’s district?) and I was for Andres (Medrano’s district) and I personally would be for this with a few more compromises.

I’m just glad we have Angela going over the fine print when the city council does business. It’s not exactly like she is anti-urban, study her work in Uptown and Downtown.