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01/30/04 City Offers More for Bums than
Working Poor
What in the World is going on? We cannot
provide basic services for taxpaying Dallas citizens, but we have the resources
to provide a free place to live with all sorts of medical and social assistance
for street bums, that will cause chaos to modest, but stable nearby single
family neighborhoods which are predominantly Hispanics of low or moderate
income.
Who is watching out for them? Obviously, not their councilman, Send Me
Some Money John Loza! But, no one is reporting any objections from the
other two Hispanics on the city council. The proposed Harry Hines
site is Councilman Steve Salazar's district, but will have a huge negative
impact on Loza's constituents just South of the site. That's why it's such a joke
to elect people based on their ethnicity.
Imagine the shock and dismay of community leaders in NW Dallas when we
learned first from the evening news that the city has decided the favored placed
to congregate street bums is next to single family homes and a popular community
park and recreation center in our area.
No one had a neighborhood meeting with any NW Dallas homeowner groups
that will be impacted by plopping down a bunch of vagrants near our homes to
ask for our input.
Yet, the Mayor and Councilwoman Finkelman had a meeting with a couple of
hundred street bums to ask their opinion as to what they want done with
public monies paid by the very people who are going to be victimized by this
do-gooder bad idea. |
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Mary Lou Montes Zijderveld:
If the city plans to have
the shelter for the homeless in NW Dallas, our
future is sealed for our area
to have ALL the things other neighborhoods don't
want.
We will become the city's
Red Light District, Junk Yard District, Railyard
maintenance District for DART's NW line,
and the place to see hundred of homeless people roaming our streets.
If you want
this do nothing. If you don't want this,
call your city councilman, mayor and County Commissioner.
This location is
not the appropriate place. I hate the word "racist",
but that is what this would be -- a racist
decision.
There are many Hispanics
of moderate income who live close to Harry Hines
site.
I urge you to stay informed and involved in
resolving this situation.
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It's bad enough that the Mayor and Councilwoman Finkelman would support using
the old Dallas Rehabilitation Hospital on Harry Hines despite its proximity to
single family homes and a city recreation center used by hundreds of children.
But get this:
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Homeless weigh in on city's plans;
Placement of assistance center
concerns those it would help
08:54 PM CST on
Thurs, 01/29/04
by KIM HORNER / The
Dallas Morning News |
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. . . The
Harry Hines site has several benefits ? an existing and furnished former
rehabilitation hospital building and parkland for a tent city for people who
won't sleep indoors, Ms. Miller said. ... |
The Mayor just got back from
begging for Dollars in D.C. to be wasted in the Trinity River Corridor, and now
she wants to create a tent city for street bums that will
be visible from Stemmons Freeway -- a major artery into Downtown from DFW.
What are they smoking at City Hall?
What happens the first time a transplanted street bum exposes himself to some
woman or child? Who's responsible when a child gets assaulted by street
bum the Mayor and council have encouraged to move up to our neighborhood?
What about the businesses on Harry Hines? How can they survive with hordes
of street bums panhandling and harassing their customers? Look what the
street bums did to storefront businesses in Downtown. |
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Anonymouse:
Why don't they build this thing at the old Naval Air
Station?
They say they won't go if it's too
far. Well, that's simple enough
to fix, close existing facilities downtown or make
them move out to the NAS, and ban handouts
from church groups in the Central
Business District.
These people will follow a free meal
to the moon if you put it there. |
This location on Harry Hines is so ludicrous none of us believed City Hall would
seriously consider it. Unfortunately, the absurd is now the norm at City
Hall, and we keep forgetting it.
This site is in John Loza's district. Why wasn't he at the meeting today?
This site is near Grawyler Park, which is a popular recreation center and area
for Hispanic families and school children. |
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Stan Aten:
Why not Reunion Arena as the site for the new homeless
shelter? It is not
that busy a facility and it is far away from the vital
businesses of downtown. |
This site is just blocks south of Bachman Lake, where private and public money
is being invested to improve and maintain the park as a safe place for decent
people.
This site is in John Loza's district. Why wasn't he at the meeting between
the Mayor, Councilwoman Finkelman and the Street Bums?
This site is near Grawyler Park, which is a popular recreation center and area
for Hispanic families and school children.
This site is just blocks south of Bachman Lake, where private and public money
is being invested to improve and maintain the park as a safe place for decent
people.
Why are we doing this? It's like we are rewarding street bums for failing
to follow normal rules of civilized society. If the people who will
benefit from all this city money and effort are mentally incompetent, let's
reopen the mental institutions and provide them a safe, secure home where they
must stay. As for the drug and alcohol addicts, they made bad life
choices. |
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Mary Lou
Montes Zijderveld:
Everyone who lives in NW Dallas
needs to read Jim Schutze's column
Jilted.
It gives insight to what City Council will likely
do when a decision is made as to where they put the Homeless
Shelter (that will house 1,000 people).
It looks like they want
the Harry Hines site
(near Grawyler Park and Rec Center).
Schutze lays out what citizens
can expect when a politician forces what "HE"
thinks is important rather than consider what citizens
think is best for their neighborhood.
We need to fight getting the Homeless
Shelter near ANY neighborhood where families live. |
Let's spend our limited resources on the working poor and the people of modest
means who have followed society's rules. Don't reward the bad guys!
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Letter to Mayor and
City Council from Mike Perry:
Dear Mayor Miller and Council Members,
I have just learned
that some of you seem to think the best place to house the street bums are
on Harry Hines in Northwest Dallas.
I am appalled and insulted that you all have the audacity to consider this
location as the best. Our area of town already has one of the highest crime
rates in the city. We have most of the strip clubs, adult book stores, soon
to have DART Rail yard, Dart Bus Maintenance facility, thousand of illegal
aliens, thousands of apartments with hundreds of thousands of low income
people.
You must house these bums somewhere else, perhaps in Stephens Park, Preston
Hollow or the southern sector of town where there is very little population
as compared to Northwest Dallas.
I voted for Mayor Miller in hopes she would work
with our community. It seems she is on a
"suicide" mission to have a recall vote. She has
alienated the black community and now she is
insulting homeowners in Northwest Dallas.
These bums do not contribute one thing
to society. They just suck the system dry.
I am tired of commuting 66 miles to work daily and
then having to give my tax dollars to your pet
projects at city hall. The solution is to run the bums out of town with
stricter law enforcement where word will get around they are not welcome in
Dallas.
In closing, Mr. Salazar
is my elected council representative.
I demand he oppose
a street bum facility on Harry Hines.
Michael Perry |
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