On Saturday, April 17th, we will hold a meet the candidates get together on the cul-de-sac on Branch Hollow Circle from 5pm to 8pm. All the residents in our Creekside subdivision will be getting invitations soon for this event. Melissa Northern, Steve Lyda and Al Filidoro have graciously accepted our invitation to talk to us about our concerns of phase two of the Morriss Rd project, The Riverwalk, Fencing and landscaping and will gladly address all of your concerns. We will provide burgers and hot dogs and soft drinks for your enjoyment.
I will also be sending an evite to many of the StopMorriss6 supporters from our email list. If you do not recieve an evite by Friday and would like to attend please send me an email at stopmorriss6@googlemail.com and I will gladly include you.
If you have any other questions you may address them here in the blog.
There will be other candidate forums being held in the coming weeks and you will see signs and banners with info on those event. One such event, being presented by the Flower Mound Cares group will be held on April 22nd at Parker Square. We have been helping to plan the event with them and hope to be a co-sponser. This event will feature all candidates as we did last year in Wilkerson Park. We will keep you posted with more details.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
Up the Riverwalk without a paddle
Well, Levenick, Wallace and Dixon just sold us up the Riverless Walk. WE DO NOT NEED APARTMENTS IN FLOWER MOUND.
We as the opposition of the expansion of Morriss Rd and the proliferation of Apartments have a better chance of defeating this than the new landowners have of getting a loan in this economy.
Smith and her band of merry men and woman need to lose the majority! Simple as that.
Vote in Northern and Lyda, keep Filidoro and we get our town back.
Vote against the land swap also, its a bad deal in order to get one new soccer field.
Just so you know Hayden and Filidoro went against the tide and voted no on the re-zoning request.
We as the opposition of the expansion of Morriss Rd and the proliferation of Apartments have a better chance of defeating this than the new landowners have of getting a loan in this economy.
Smith and her band of merry men and woman need to lose the majority! Simple as that.
Vote in Northern and Lyda, keep Filidoro and we get our town back.
Vote against the land swap also, its a bad deal in order to get one new soccer field.
Just so you know Hayden and Filidoro went against the tide and voted no on the re-zoning request.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
NFL sites
Please see the following web sites for info on the NFL and to request yard sign or to have signs posted on your private fences exposed to roadways. Please help all that you can.
www.melissanorthern.com
www.alfilidoro.com
www.stevelyda.com
www.melissanorthern.com
www.alfilidoro.com
www.stevelyda.com
Signs are sprouting everywhere.
This morning as I drove to work at 530am, I started to notice the proliferation of Re-elect the Mayor signs, I'm sure most of you have noticed also. It seems anywhere you see a posting for commercial real-estate on the streets you will also notice the SWR grouping of signs (Smith,Webb,Robinson), not as catchy as NFL so I guess we can call them SWEAR for a lack of a better term. They seem to be conveniently in the vicinity of property being listed by Flower Mound's largest commercial real estate broker, Todd Weaver. I took a look at his business web sight and noticed he has a rather large project that begun back in December in the vicinity of Chinn Chapel and 407 called Jernigan Heights. Wait, isn't that conveniently located across the street from the soccer field the town is trying to swap out and we will be voting on that issue next month? SWEAR signs joined at the hip at most of his properties? Hmmm. Maybe you have also noticed that most of the NFL signs in town are on Residential properties and some non-Weaver associated commercial properties?
This same point was brought up last year and property owners have every right to deny usage to opposing candidates. I, most definitely would choose to use a business that allowed the NFL signs, that is my right also. But, the close association with Chinn Chapel area, soccer fields, out of town developers salivating to break ground on the next "The Casitas at La Flore Monton de Tierra", Williams Corp drooling in erecting a Derrick where ever a variance may land, troubles me and should trouble all of us.
Our friends at Williams have already spent tens of thousands of dollars for a phone bank operation out of the back room of a Guitar Center in Cedar Rapids Iowa to blanket the town with telemarketing calls and a survey on our opinions of Oil and Gas exploration, Which candidates you favor and probably asked your favorite color too.
They love our town, well, not really they love the soft government that loves free BBQs, loves giving money to the YMCA, The High School bands, yada, yada, yada.
The Williams gang will start a door to door canvasing starting next week, to promote themselves as good neighbors who have our best interests in mind and will probably pass out some really nifty swag for your time, oh and by the way if you want this cool pen or key chain with a whistle on it, please vote for the SWEAR group. They too are good neighbors and are GREEN like us. Have a nice day.
Sure they can't directly give the SWEAR group buckets of money for their campaigns, but they sure can spend their own money promoting themselves, the need for a bigger soccer field, oh and by the way we need bigger roads to get in and out of your town, so we need to make Morriss Rd a six lane superhighway past your schools and houses.
All for a Key Chain?
Im sure it won't stop there, the developers from "The Casitas at La Flore Monton de Tierra" will tell you all about the beautiful "The Casitas at La Flore Monton de Tierra II and III" they want to build at the Riverwalk or down the street from you or and any of the vacant properties that currently house campaign signs for the SWEAR group.
So, the moral of this long winded tirade is this, Don't trust anyone who SWEARS.
This same point was brought up last year and property owners have every right to deny usage to opposing candidates. I, most definitely would choose to use a business that allowed the NFL signs, that is my right also. But, the close association with Chinn Chapel area, soccer fields, out of town developers salivating to break ground on the next "The Casitas at La Flore Monton de Tierra", Williams Corp drooling in erecting a Derrick where ever a variance may land, troubles me and should trouble all of us.
Our friends at Williams have already spent tens of thousands of dollars for a phone bank operation out of the back room of a Guitar Center in Cedar Rapids Iowa to blanket the town with telemarketing calls and a survey on our opinions of Oil and Gas exploration, Which candidates you favor and probably asked your favorite color too.
They love our town, well, not really they love the soft government that loves free BBQs, loves giving money to the YMCA, The High School bands, yada, yada, yada.
The Williams gang will start a door to door canvasing starting next week, to promote themselves as good neighbors who have our best interests in mind and will probably pass out some really nifty swag for your time, oh and by the way if you want this cool pen or key chain with a whistle on it, please vote for the SWEAR group. They too are good neighbors and are GREEN like us. Have a nice day.
Sure they can't directly give the SWEAR group buckets of money for their campaigns, but they sure can spend their own money promoting themselves, the need for a bigger soccer field, oh and by the way we need bigger roads to get in and out of your town, so we need to make Morriss Rd a six lane superhighway past your schools and houses.
All for a Key Chain?
Im sure it won't stop there, the developers from "The Casitas at La Flore Monton de Tierra" will tell you all about the beautiful "The Casitas at La Flore Monton de Tierra II and III" they want to build at the Riverwalk or down the street from you or and any of the vacant properties that currently house campaign signs for the SWEAR group.
So, the moral of this long winded tirade is this, Don't trust anyone who SWEARS.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Town Council Agenda for April 5th
The town is seeking to amend the request for rezoning at the Riverless Walk. They want to remove the cap on sub 700 square foot apartments they can build. Please plan to attend or email your displeasure of the possible repeal of this.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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.
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.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Where is the River?
Last year at this time we were in full swing of our effort to curb the plans of the town as they tried to muscle the road plans at full speed. Our efforts were mainly to get the word out to our residents and to convince them that the real need was to change the face of our town government.
As we all know the focal point of the need for the road was the much heralded addition to our town called "The Riverwalk". The plan was for a hospital, 400 apartment units, retail, mixed use offices, and a "River".
Right now, we know we have a beautiful hospital about to open and by most account’s a true state of the art facility. Something we can all be proud of. The next phase of the project will be an apartment complex with about several hundred units, of which 85 percent have to be larger than 700 square feet. The size and the variance of these units will be a matter of discussion at this week’s town council meeting. Beyond that, there have been some major changes in this project that from this point on I will call "The Riverless Walk".
The original developer of the "RLW", Flower Mound's own Cole McDowell, due to his own financial difficulties has parceled off the land into five separate pieces. None of the potential property owners are obligated or can afford the amenities promised by McDowell, "The River". As you all remember, the amenity, "The River" was the trigger that would have started the clock on the phase two of the road expansion project, in which McDowell would have had to have ponied up an additional 2.2 million dollars towards the road project. The other 5 developers WILL NOT provide that funding, Hence, no "River", no traffic, no road.
It is essential that we change the face of our town government. If the current regime retains its power and majority, Those 5 other parcels of land will fall in the hands of APARTMENT developers and the 400 units will turn in to 1000 plus units, and a hospital. No River, LOTS of traffic, but still no 2.2 million dollars for the road expansion.
If in May, Tom Hayden retains the support of Al Filidoro and adds the support of Steve Lyda and a new Mayor, Melissa Northern, they can be counted on to enforce SmartGrowth, not give free reign to out of town developers to build apartments on this property. They will be looking to support commercial options more favorable to our community than apartments, such as turning that acreage into a productive, profitable, inflation-proof option of a major medical complex to compliment the hospital and attract high paying jobs to our town. Maybe we can re-brand the project, "The River of Life". No River, No Road.
As we all know the focal point of the need for the road was the much heralded addition to our town called "The Riverwalk". The plan was for a hospital, 400 apartment units, retail, mixed use offices, and a "River".
Right now, we know we have a beautiful hospital about to open and by most account’s a true state of the art facility. Something we can all be proud of. The next phase of the project will be an apartment complex with about several hundred units, of which 85 percent have to be larger than 700 square feet. The size and the variance of these units will be a matter of discussion at this week’s town council meeting. Beyond that, there have been some major changes in this project that from this point on I will call "The Riverless Walk".
The original developer of the "RLW", Flower Mound's own Cole McDowell, due to his own financial difficulties has parceled off the land into five separate pieces. None of the potential property owners are obligated or can afford the amenities promised by McDowell, "The River". As you all remember, the amenity, "The River" was the trigger that would have started the clock on the phase two of the road expansion project, in which McDowell would have had to have ponied up an additional 2.2 million dollars towards the road project. The other 5 developers WILL NOT provide that funding, Hence, no "River", no traffic, no road.
It is essential that we change the face of our town government. If the current regime retains its power and majority, Those 5 other parcels of land will fall in the hands of APARTMENT developers and the 400 units will turn in to 1000 plus units, and a hospital. No River, LOTS of traffic, but still no 2.2 million dollars for the road expansion.
If in May, Tom Hayden retains the support of Al Filidoro and adds the support of Steve Lyda and a new Mayor, Melissa Northern, they can be counted on to enforce SmartGrowth, not give free reign to out of town developers to build apartments on this property. They will be looking to support commercial options more favorable to our community than apartments, such as turning that acreage into a productive, profitable, inflation-proof option of a major medical complex to compliment the hospital and attract high paying jobs to our town. Maybe we can re-brand the project, "The River of Life". No River, No Road.
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