Neighborhoods
Lower Greenville's best kept secret: Free parking
Updated 1/9/08 - Fear of scumbar patrons in LGNA-land drives call for business boycott - click here
Ever since neighborhood associations on Lower Greenville starting buying streets under the City's Resident Only Parking program, the two hottest questions heard from scumbar patrons have been...
What do you mean, they towed my friggin' car??
and
Where the hell am I supposed to park now?
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Ever the one to provide a forum for important information about our wonderful neighborhood, BD has prepared a list of streets and a very easy to read map of free parking just a few steps away from Greenville Avenue.
Another Lower Greenville street goes Resident Only
The Belmont Neighborhood Association announced at its National Night Out event that 5700 block of La Vista, between Greenville and Matilda, will be the newest Resident Parking Only zone on Lower Greenville in nearly eight years.
The signs will be installed within two weeks; the new RPO zone will be combined with the RPO Zone on Hope Street. Click here to see a map. RPO will be enforced Tuesday - Sunday evenings, just like Hope Street.
RPO is a City of Dallas parking designation which allows only the residents of an RPO-zoned block to park on their street during certain days and hours.
A petition signed by more than 2/3rds of the property owners must be submitted before the City will survey the street for compliance with the ordinance's requirements.
LGNA takes credit for new stop signs, lower crime rate and fresher smelling clothes
Normally BD does not read the wit and wisdom of the LGNA (aka the Mad Maxine Admiration Society) website, but a neighbor sent a link that we just had to read to believe.
We already knew how LGNA claims to care about anything that happens south of Belmont. Too bad most of their officers could not find their way south of Belmont without a map and a police escort. And we already know how they refuse to recognize Belmont NA and its decision (backed by 100+ neighbors) to secede from LGNA.
But now they have the unmitigated chutzpah to take credit for the installation of the new four-way traffic signs at the intersection of Matilda and Belmont.
The Lowest Greenville rezoning proposal - one bad flashback after another
At his advanced age, BD is prone to many medical issues. Gout one weekend, sinus pain the next, followed by a bad case of flatulence. Throw in living in a house with a bunch of girls of various ages, and hearing loss is a given. But during last week's meeting at Kush between the business owners, managers and property owners on Lowest Greenville and Angela Hunt and her gaggle of City staff and neighborhood leaders, BD found himself suffering another sign of advanced age.
Flashbacks.
It was late 2003 or early 2004, but definitely it was the winter time. BD was eating lunch in the very same place as the meeting - back then it was called Coconuts Grill. His hostess had invited him to lunch so she could learn everything possible about the problems on Lowest Greenville - in 45 minutes or less. BD gave his standard spiel: The bad bars on Lowest Greenville were ruining things for all the good businesses and residential neighborhoods around it. The answer was something so simple, it could be wrapped up in one phrase - A level playing field. If the City and all its different departments - Building Inspection, Code Compliance, DPD - would just get off its collective butt and shut down the bars that claimed to be restaurants, but did not have kitchens, let alone serve food, then we could all sit down and discuss the future of Lowest Greenville.
BD had the Kahuna burger, and his hostess had the salad.
Oh, the hostess? It was not-yet-a-city-council-member Angela Hunt.
Lowest Greenville rezoning proposal (planned development district) (Updated)
Dallas City Council Member Angela Hunt has called a public meeting to hear about the proposed rezoning of Lowest Greenville (Belmont Avenue to Bryan Street) for July 29th at the Vickery Towers. The draft of the proposed ordinance was a closely guarded secret, not released to neighborhood association leaders or property owners. BD filed an Open Records Request for the draft over this past weekend; the April 15th draft was released this afternoon.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Ms Hunt released a revised copy of the proposal, with changes in a section that would have closed some businesses that have been on the street without problems for nearly 30 years.
The revised document, dated July 14, is available at this link.
You can download BD's list of all properties, owners and occupants, based on DCAD files at this link (Excel spreadsheet).
BD will post his analysis of the proposal before the public meeting.
Click here to read the (revised) proposal in full
List of businesses within the proposed Lowest Greenville PD - click here
