Staff to Oakley
                             

07/18/02  Oakley and Loza refuse to represent Bachman-NW Hwy
                                                                                                             

Ed Oakley is not alone in trying to keep Bachman-NW Hwy bogged down in the mire.  He is getting help from our inept City Attorney "Not My Fault" Madeleine Johnson, Federal Judge Jerry Buchmeyer, District Judge David Evans, District Judge Kristin Wade and, of course, Chief Terrell Bolton.

On many occasions, I have asked "Why does Federal Judge Jerry Buchmeyer hate the citizens of Dallas?"  He has always chosen to live apart from the rabble with his home in the Park Cities, but that has never kept him from trying to destroy our city.

This is the man who imposed 14-1 on Dallas over the elective decision of the citizens.  Look what that has brought us -- corrupt politicians, ward politics and more racial division than we have ever known.  

For some reason, Judge Bully Buchmeyer has a personal vendetta against my part of Dallas, the Bachman/Northwest Highway/Walnut Hill area.  Next to Old Al Lipscomb and Chief Terrell Bolton, Bully Buchmeyer is the most responsible for the current condition of NW Highway.  He is also the direct reason you cannot enter Dallas without seeing a lurid billboard promoting sexually oriented businesses (SOB).  

You don't see those kind of billboards in other cities.  Could it be because they don't have a bully Federal Judge who equates women sticking their body parts up against strange men as "artistic expression"?  

Did you know Bully Buchmeyer has granted Baby Dolls an injunction against the city to allow them to operate their SOB as a "dance hall" pending trial?  This all goes back to our inept City Attorney and her staff and to Beat that Indictment Fantroy and Brain-Dead Maxine Thornton-Reese.  It was the License & Permit appointees of BTI Fantroy and Brain Dead who granted Baby Dolls a license to operate as a SOB even though that whorehouse did not have the required special use permit (SUP).

Not your problem?  Think again!  If this stands, any SOB can operate in any zoning that permits Dance Halls, and those that permit Dance Halls with SUP's.  Get this, under that scenario, no SOB will be required to even get a Special Use Permit again.  A legitimate Dance Hall would have to get a SUP, but the whorehouse/pretend Dance Hall would not.  This only happens in Dallas and only in a city with Bully Buchmeyer, an inept City Attorney and District Judges like David Evans and Kristin Wade who consistently come down on the side of the sex clubs, the whores and their pimps.

This is not a morality issue for me.  I don't care about the souls of the women who do what that they do for money or the young men in the gay sexually oriented businesses.  They made their life choices for one reason or another.  I care about the devastation that is caused by the establishments where they work.

Burch Management was supposed to be leaving their cess pool on NW Hwy and moving all their whores out to the "strip mall" they are building West of Stemmons at Walnut Hill.  Sounds harmless enough -- except there is to be a new bus depot for the Mexican bus carriers right there, too.  Those families going back and forth to visit relatives in Mexico are going to have to look at whatever trash Burch puts on the outside of their buildings.

You don't have to speak English to understand what the sex clubs' bill boards are promoting.

There's something even more ominous on the horizon -- the change in the rules for terminating non-conforming business uses with the Board of Adjustment.  

Admittedly, I'm not speaking to Ed Oakley since he sold us out to Palladium and gave them our $43 Million, so I do not know this firsthand.  Randy Staff advises me that

 "Ed Oakley is leading the effort to take the teeth out of the Board of Adjustment.  Ed has repeatedly stated he does not want to set termination dates for the non-conforming businesses in the Bachman Lake/Northwest Neighborhood.  Ed has repeatedly said he would not help in our neighborhood because it is not in his district."

Not helping us is one thing -- intentionally creating obstacles for us is a whole other horse.  Keep in mind that Ed Oakley should not even be in this process at all.  His construction company specializes in constructing, remodeling, enhancing  and maintaining night clubs and "dance halls".  He has a conflict of interest in this matter.  His clients will have direct benefit if his proposed Board of Adjustment (BOA) changes go through.

Oakley is being assisted by our inept City Attorney.  Currently, if a citizen plunks down the $1000 filing fee to get the BOA to determine whether a business in his neighborhood is non-conforming to existing zoning and allowed uses, the citizen has to "prove" the use is non-conforming and "prove" that conformity is needed.  The targeted business is allowed to present evidence regarding an appropriate amortization period (how long the business can continue to operate to recoup their original investment).  The burden of proof is on the non-conforming business.

Under Oakley's changes, the BOA will be able to determine that "conformity is not required", which changes the zoning without going to the Plan Commission or the council.  This pretty much eliminates any protection for residential areas or legitimate businesses trying to compete with their counterparts in the suburbs.  Under the Oakley plan, citizens and citizen groups trying to clean up their communities would have the burden of proof to determine if a business had recouped their investment to calculate the amortization period.  That is impossible.  It would require access to the records of the non-conforming business.

Ed Oakley and the City Attorney are promoting SPOT ZONING which can be applied to every part of the City of Dallas -- your neighborhood.

Thanks to It's Not My Fault Johnson (our inept City Attorney), Ed Oakley and Bully Buchmeyer we may soon have sexually oriented businesses all over town and citizens will be powerless to do anything about it.  Those of us who live in District 2 and 6 will be particularly hard hit because our council representatives (Loza and Oakley) are sympathetic to the bars and sex clubs and apathetic to the impact those non-conforming uses have on our community.

Where do we go for help?  We do have the Mayor and Mitch Rasansky for sure.  I would expect Lois Finkelman, Sandy Greyson and Mark Housewright to vote against a plan that will let sex clubs in every part of this city.  As much as DallasArena.com disses Veletta Lill, I know she would never support changing BOA rules to make it harder for District 14 neighborhoods to improve their community.  That puts us right back to the Palladium vote.

If Duh Alan Walne does his usually song and dance -- saying all the right things but voting the other way, then Ed Oakley may have the votes he needs to carry out his agenda.  When I was making all those calls for him in his campaign, I thought he was the best candidate in that race.  But, you know what?  As tight as he was with the bars and sex clubs, Dwayne Caraway would not have dared promote something like this.

Of course, John Loza might have some religious experience that would make him think of the citizens first in this issue.  Dr. Garcia might recognize the risk of Oakley's BOA plan to her district.  There's no chance that any of the Black council members would vote against Oakley's plan because all 4 have supported the sex clubs -- every single time they have had a chance to vote on the matter.  

Former council members Don Hicks and Bob Stimson tried to get the Bachman/NW Hwy area designated as the city's red light district.  Don  Hicks completely controls Brain Dead and has much leverage over Don Hill.  

This is not just about the Bachman/NW Hwy-Walnut Hill area.  It's about the Dallas image.  You cannot get into Dallas from DFW without going through our area.  Many of the sex clubs have already built new expensive buildings on Northwest Highway on the West side of Stemmons -- big, elegant looking whorehouses.  Even La Bare is out there.  You know that dive where stupid women stick dollars in the g-strings of guys who would never otherwise give them a second look.

This is what in-coming conventioneers and business people first see when they are driving into Dallas -- a string of elegant whorehouses -- up and down Northwest Highway and Stemmons Freeway.  If they venture East on NW Hwy, they get to see the sleazier end of the whorehouses.

When I drive west on Walnut Hill to Stemmons, I pass a dive with a sign shaped like a (you know) with the word "adult" on it and a marquee that says "live nude".  At Forest and Harry Hines, there is a big building marked XXX.  It's disgusting.  To miss all the trash, you have to drive North on Marsh or Webb Chapel until you get to Farmers Branch and then go West to Stemmons.

This is not about healthy adults having active sex lives.  These clubs send a message to anyone that Dallas has an inordinately high population of lonely horn dogs who have to pay whores to have sex with them, or pretend to have sex with them.  They may not know the difference.

The majority of these old perverts like the Bachman/NW Hwy/Walnut Hill area for their sexual outlets.  They either pay the cover and buy  high $$ drinks at the sex clubs to have sex with, or pretend to have sex with the more attractive whores.  Or, they frequent the area 7-11's and buy a cheaper whore.  Of course, the cheaper whore may have an expensive bug the old pervert gets as a bonus.

The Dallas SOB ordinance has a "no touch provision" -- like other cities have and enforce because these provisions have been upheld in Federal court.  In Dallas, we have Chief Terrell Bolton's "special" relationship with the sex clubs as that "high ranking officer" who assisted Old Al so Caligula Rizos would give him $7,700.  Then there's Judge Kristin Wade who thinks our "no touch provision" is unconstitutional, even though it is just like the ordinances in other cities that have been upheld in federal court.

Where's District Atty. Bill Hill?  He should be prosecuting these "no touch" cases.  Fat chance.  If he were to go after some of these "no touch" abusers, he might find some real drug sales to prosecute.  Don't forget it was in these sex clubs where Michael Irvin crossed paths with the hooker girlfriend/dancer of Police Officer Hernandez.  There was drugs and sex and mayhem, and the only one who went to jail was a love sick cop.

This is not about morality -- it's about the practicality of the loss of sales taxes in the area because legitimate businesses just cannot operate next door to sex clubs.  It's about the practicality of the loss of convention business because of our image as a decadent center of perverted old horn dogs.  It's about common sense.

We can't do anything about Bully Buchmeyer -- Federal Judges are in for life.  If Judge David Evans or Judge Kristin Wade are up for election in November, I'm voting for their opposition.  The voters in District 4 could get rid of Brain Dead Thornton-Reese on July 27th.  The folks in Oak Cliff can decide about Ed Oakley next May.  

In the meantime, those of us in Bachman/NW Hwy/Walnut Hill area who are in either current or future District 2 and District 6 have no direct representative at city hall.  

Thanks to Bully Buchmeyer we live in a city with ward politics and no one covering our ward.

Thanks to Bully Buchmeyer and Judge David Evans and Judge Kristin Wade and Its Not My Fault City Attorney Johnson, the sex clubs have more clout in the courts than we do.

Thanks to Ed Oakley, my community may actually be the red light district that Bob Stimson tried to get 6 years ago.

Bachman/Northwest Hwy/Walnut Hills is No Man's Land.