Save Goar Park
and Turtle Creek
If you are interested in signing a
petition to ask the City Council to submit this
issue to a vote by the residents of University Park, please click
here for
additional information.
City
Hall has plans to take nearly ½ acre of our creek and park to expand city hall
and build a parking lot!!!!!! Over
75% of the neighbors within 500 feet of this project are opposed to the taking
of our creek. Over 550 University Park residents have signed a petition asking
that the creek be saved! Many
residents still have never heard of this plan.
We
support the need for better facilities for our police, fire, and administrative
personnel. We believe there are
excellent alternatives that would provide those facilities AND save our creek. We
have discussed these alternatives with some of our elected officials, including
the preferred alternative to purchase of a building on Hillcrest.
We
don’t want our elected officials to move forward with plans without answers to
very critical questions like:
How
many trees and which trees will be lost as part of this construction?
How
long will our park be unusable because of the construction?
How
much is this project really going to cost per sq. ft.?
Every number we have looked at is much more expensive than what is
being built in the private sector.
Exactly
how are we paying for this project and why didn’t such a large capital
project require a public vote?
If
there is a 100 year flood, will we have the same problems and millions in
damage like Baylor Hospital did after the May 5, 1995 flood?? (Baylor is
built over Millcreek like this expansion will be built over Turtle Creek.)
And
there are many other questions important to everyone’s quality of life that
have not been answered.
City
Hall has agreed to a 90-day moratorium to consider the purchase of a building at
Snider Plaza that can meet their requirements and actually be cheaper than the
original plan proposed by City Hall. Please
sign our petition supporting Saving Turtle Creek, Saving Goar Park, and saving
our trees.
For
additional questions call Mary Poss at 214-826-0779 or send an e-mail to mary@dallastex.com.
Thank you in advance for your support.
We
should not destroy a park and take part of a creek that will be forever be lost
for something that is plentiful-------office space and a PARKING LOT!!!!!!!