Petition Drive

The Flower Mound Cares group completed their petition drive this week and delivered over 6000 certified signatures to the town secretary for verification. Hats off to the group for all their efforts and lots of hard work to accomplish this task.

The volunteers worked most of the town door to door and with signing events staged outside brave property owner, restaurants and businesses. Since this issue to located over in the western parts of town, lots of people in the central and eastern areas were not fully aware of the issues being presented, as were most of the group from Wellington and Bridlewood not familiar with our plight from last year with the road issues. It shows just how large our town is becoming and how similar most of our issues really are. They mostly boil down to rampant, uncontrolled development and how attractive all the wide open spaces we enjoy in Flower Mound are.

I'm sure the hard workers from the Flower Mound Cares group are going to enjoy a restful Easter weekend with their families instead of standing out from of MacDonald's holding signs or walking door to door, they deserve the rest. But just because we won the battle, there is still a lot to the war. Its not time to rest for too long on our laurels and get back to work to keep people motivated for the Election to be held next month. The mandate of 6000 signatures who want a change to the way our town does business speaks volumes and we need to continue to shout out loud until we can shake some change from the trees. Your signature was a big step, but your trip to the polls is the final charge up the hill. Yes, a moratorium will probably take place and yes there will be another election for the town to decide whether Contaminate Collection Facilities and pipelines will be built in our town. But the only way to change that PERMANENTLY is to elect a town council and a Mayor that will scrutinize every needs request that comes in an do whats right for our towns residents and not outside developers.

Please take the time to listen to Northern, Filadoro and Lyda, Flower Mounds NFL, and you too will see they have a preferred vision for our town.