Leading Off (10/30/09)
1. The Highland Park Town Council doesn’t need any of your fancy studies, any of your new-fangled objective measures, or your pointy-headed cost-benefit analysis. They know the truth: Even looking at the possibility of maybe someday thinking about eventually enacting some sort of voluntary conservation ordinance to preserve houses in one of this area’s most historic neighborhoods, that alone will cause home values to plummet. Former Mayor Gifford Touchstone says so, and his word is good enough for them.
2. Dallas Police may need to review the finer points of the Lock, Take, Hide program after a SWAT supervisor’s vehicle was burgled. In related news, D CEO executive editor Glenn Hunter will no longer drive down North Fitzhugh Avenue.
3. Dallas attorney Ralph Janvey, the court-appointed receiver in the R. Allen Stanford case, is looking to recover $1.5 billion for defrauded investors. The lawyer for the investors says Janvey’s plan is “something of a fantasy.” Discussion topic: Is it more or less of a fantasy than seeing a fleet of electric cars on the roads of North Texas next year?
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Weird that the Highland Park Town Council story doesn’t actually have any statements from, uh… the council. ?
Their vote was clear.
It was a simple resolution that would only allow the Town staff to look into the matter. It was well thought out and did not obligate the Town to do anything, but discover and investigate all the alternatives as it relates to Historic Preservation.
We had a packed house (standing room only) all in favor of the Town moving forward on this. There was one dissenter among all those who attended. The Council unfortunately went with him.
I was personally very disappointed that you had all of these citizens come out on a cold and rainy night to speak about why they love our Town and find this proposed resolution worthy of passage only to be turned back out into the cold by those Council members (and Mayor) who decided on their own that this is not something the Town should be involved with without even studying the matter.
I plan to continue this effort- Searcy