Casie Pierce

Hands down, Timbercreek is one of the most beautiful and serene (not to mention well-managed) apartment complexes in Vickery Meadow. It certainly has location, location, location, especially with the creek, ducks, birds, etc., which is actually a little creeklet or tributary to Upper White Rock Creek and helps to form that greenbelt.

There is a nice condo association on the other side of Timbercreek that shares a shoreline with the creek, running sort of parallel to NW Highway. Around Shadybrook- it's cannellized. I think it winds up under the Sam's parking lot.

To the East, there are many apartments abutting the creek, on both sides. When we did the site plan for the Comp Land Use study, the community's vision was to preserve the creek and enhance and promote its greenway.

Building a box and cannellizing an otherwise valuable asset for the City of Dallas would be a grave mistake. Especially for a waterway that flows into White Rock Creek.

If Big Box retail wasn't part of the community vision during the Comp Land Use planning sessions, why is it even being considered now? Park that box on top of a really crummy apartment complex, but not on Timbercreek.

Don't know what the PID would have to say about the whole idea, but big box retail was not part of the vision for that part of Vickery Meadow when I was there. The apartments that we focused on taking away were the ones around the intersection of Fair Oaks and Park Lane, where we would have built an extension to Shadybrook, a new street, right through the middle of some of the worst apartments, and "squared-off" the five point intersection to make a sort of town square.

Here's a brave and bold idea. Why not some huge and grand development in the heart of Vickery Meadow, rather than on the fringes where the real estate is a little better??? But no! Instead, Catholic Charities has to operate a tiny makeshift clinic for refugees from every nation on the UN list until their SUP expires and they must - as Councilman Rasansky counseled recently - run their clinic from an office on Greenville Ave, miles away from the people they serve. Maybe, the international refugees will spread tuberculosis to all the Costco shoppers as they amble along, on their way for testing and vaccinations.

It breaks my heart, this poor direction it seems to be heading. But, what do I know? I'm just a disgraced and disgruntled public official, huh? And it's looking more and more like the goal is absolute full-scale gentrification. The property owners are so desperate for their property values to rise, that they are supporting unwise and detrimental projects - like the "low-hanging fruit" and all at the expense of the people they are supposed to be serving.