Sources at City Hall have confirmed three new Resident Parking Only zones in the Lower Greenville area will be approved next week.

Parking surveys were completed before the Labor Day holiday, and all that remains is to verify signatures and mail notices to residents. Sign payments will be submitted immediately, and signs will be installed (we hope) before Texas-OU weekend.

The 7-Eleven store at Richmond and Greenville was robbed at 4am Thursday morning by at least two gunmen.

According to the DPD offense report and BD's own sources, the gunmen entered the store and pointed their weapons at the employees, then locked them in a back room. They took $140 from the cash register, and $70 worth of cigarettes. No injuries were reported. Physical evidence specialists were still on the scene at 7am today.

This is the second 7-Eleven robbery in the East Dallas area in as many weeks. Late last week, the 7-Eleven on Garland Road south of Casa Linda Shopping Center was also robbed at gunpoint. In that incident, the employee barricaded herself in the store room and called police.

City can't shut down Lone Star towing without help from public to get convictions

After being cited by the City for operating an illegal parking service on their property last week, Whole Foods pulled the pay-to-park service off the lot this past weekend. And by 11pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, there wasn't a single parking space left on the Whole Foods or Blockbuster parking lot. Even the spaces alongside the loading dock, which are not legal parking places, were full of cars.

But Whole Foods' bad attitude against putting a towing service on the Blockbuster side of the lot - which the residential neighbors demand as a buffer to the noise from the Whole Foods parking lot - came back to bite them in the butt when a Dallas resident found his car towed off the parking lot.

So, you may ask, he got towed?? What's the big deal about being towed from a Lower Greenville parking lot?

Despite this being the last big summer weekend to get out of town, Lower Greenville was packed with the usual motley crew of gangbangers and troublemakers.

While the scumbars are dropping off the radar one by one, the restaurants replacing them (and the ones that were already here) are doing their best to hold the line while the new Lower Greenville gets its act together.

That said, we strongly encourage families to come out here and celebrate special events like graduation, promotions, and even birthdays.

But please, leave your anxiety, tensions and general bad attitude at the house. One extended family didn't, and their collective antics put half of them in jail, and on Vimeo.

It's amazing what someone with a masters degree in architecture will say to the police when he's sitting on the sidewalk wearing handcuffs.

Update @ Friday evening - The pay-to-park service was not working the Whole Foods parking lot this evening. Guess that means it's free parking from now on??

Looking for some free parking on Lower Greenville this weekend? Let BD make a suggestion ... check out Whole Foods parking lot for the best close-in free spaces.

Code Compliance cited the parking lot operator last Saturday evening for an illegal use of the property for a second business, and told him to not come back until the City issued a permit. And that ain't gonna happen!

On Monday, Code Compliance sent the property owner partnership (which includes current City Council Member Mitchell Rasansky) a letter informing them of the violation, with a caveat to not allow any pay-to-park services on the property.