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NEIGHBORHOOD SWEEP | We're about
to go door-to-door in West Dallas.
 Before
the month is up, the Dallas
Police Department will launch an
innovative quality of life initiative across
a swath of West Dallas. It will take in all
neighborhoods north of Singleton and east of
Hampton Road.
Officers will go from street to street, speaking
with someone from every home, and completing
a community questionnaire.
Doing more than just establishing trust between
West Dallas residents and our city's top crime
fighters, the initiative will also:
- gather
important, block-by-block information on
crime concerns
- answer
residents' questions about basic city services
- detect
troubling situations that may need follow
up
- motivate
neighborhood crime watch programs, and
- send
a message to criminals operating in West
Dallas that they are on notice.
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TRAINING
| By March 1, all code compliance staff, officers,
and building inspectors will have been trained
to more effectively respond to violations in
historic and conservation districts. This is
a long-overdue triumph for District 3.
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AWARENESS
| What are the most common code violations?
What might each of us need to know to stay within
city ordinances on our own properties? Take
a look at those Dallas ordinances
which are most often violated.
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GOING
AFTER BIG OFFENDERS | After
45 violations, we were able to bring together
our city's vice squad, code enforcement and
building inspection departments along with the
City Attorney's Office to successfully deal
our final hand to a neighbor-unfriendly
motel near our Kiest neighborhoods: The
Dallas Inn. Anticipating a positive
outcome on that case, we have already
begun to draw a big target around our next unsavory
hotel in District 3. |
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DRINK IT UP
| A new company is coming to Dallas that
will bring 50 new jobs and grow to 300 employees
over the next three years.
 Niagara
Bottling considered sites in Phoenix,
San Antonio and two other Dallas locations before
deciding on Mountain Creek. Niagara joins Nestlé
Waters North America in putting the water back
in the Mountain Creek Business Park.
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WAY | We're also on the verge
of approving an incentive for a new business
for Mountain Creek Business Park. It will bring
to District 3 more than 200, new, $40,000-a-year
jobs over the next five years. It will also
trigger $70 million private dollars in building
improvements.
• FINISHING
THE JOB | As a bonus for residents
and businesses in Mountain Creek and The Woods,
I have gotten a commitment from Dallas County
Commissioner Ken Mayfield to complete the Mountain
Creek Parkway.
An important connector for this part of District
3, the thoroughfare currently (and dangerously)
drops from a divided four-lane parkway to a
two-lane undivided road. With design and construction
assistance from the City, Mountain Creek Parkway
will now be completed between Eagle Ford Drive
and Clark Road.
• MORE HOMES,
MORE RETAIL | On the heels of
last month's launch of the 1,000+ home Davis
Garden District project in Oak Cliff,
Mayor Leppert will join Councilman Neumann for
a groundbreaking of the new Greenleaf
Village 2 in West Dallas.
But that's not all, just wait until you hear
next month's planned announcement by
the La Reunion Town Center
project on Fort Worth Avenue... |
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TRINITY
RIVER CORRIDOR PROJECT |
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UNWRAPPING THE TRINITY PROJECT
| District 3 voters were among the most passionate
supporters of last fall's Vote No campaign,
allowing the Trinity River Corridor Project
to stay on track.
 One
of the frustrations most often expressed by
residents, however, has been the lack of decentralized
information and coordination of the project.
As chairman of the City's Trinity
River Corridor Project, Councilman
Neumann has been working with Mayor Tom Leppert
to heighten staff accountability, visibility
and coordination of the Trinity River Project's
many components.
Recently, graphic and spreadsheet project charts
have been produced that detail what's planned,
when construction begins, and what funds will
be used.
Not yet available on the City's Web site, you
can review
these documents at daveneumann.com. |
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