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?
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.
Could this be the future of Lower Greenville?
We're a few days behind on posting this story, but the local blogs are buzzing about Madison Partners (fka Dunhill Properties) plans to build an environmentally-certified mixed-use office complex on the Arcadia site (click on the photo to see the screen-saver size image).
How does a 20,000 square foot, multi-story retail, bar and and restaurant building on lowest Greenville sound? The site, which is being developed by UCR, is where the Arcadia Theater stood before it burned a few years ago.
Lucky's Roadhouse SUP renewal at City Plan Commission next week
Three years ago, Lucky's Roadhouse, then known as The Beagle, received an extension to its Specific Use Permit to operate a Dance Hall and Bar (the only legal dance hall on Lower Greenville).
When the proposal was presented to the Plan Commission, The Beagle had petitions of support from nearly 400 neighbors in the Lower Greenville area. Mad Maxine and LGNA tried to pooh-pooh the petition away by saying (not sic) that not everybody could agree on something like this, but that LGNA did speak for the neighborhood in opposition to any SUP on Lower Greenville. One plan commissioner noted that nearly 250 of her neighbors in LGNALand who signed the petitions were telling him quite an opposite story.
