By: biglawman.com

biglawman.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:26:16 +0000

Clearly, the City Council, Mayor and City Manager have slapped the faces of the property owners/taxpayers of West University by moving forward with their Super Block. The four property owners whose homes will be affected were lied to when they were told not to worry — nothing would happen for another 15 to 30 years. The rush for approval of the Plan is suspicious. There is more here than is being disclosed.

By: Bob Kelly, Former WU Mayor

Bob Kelly, Former WU Mayor — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:27:40 +0000

The City has a Plan to create a Super Block and move the Community, Library, Senior Citizen, and Public Works building to it. There are 4 citizens living in the Super Block and they have been given notice that the City will eventually be wanting their land. As part of the Plan, City property will be sold off to the WU Baptist Church to enable the Church to build a Youth Center open to all outside of WU to use. City Manager Mike Ross has described it as Partnering with the Church. No citizen vote on all this is being held.

City Council at its last meeting voted to begin implementation of the Plan.

There have been no citizen focus groups, no citizen task forces, no City citizen Boards, or citizens town hall in put. All has been behind closed doors till about a week ago when the affected property owners were asked to come to a Council workshop, allegedly to give input. They did, all against it, and then the Council voted to implement the Plan.

We need a big turn out at Council meeting next Mon night at 6:30 pm.

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By: biglawman.com

By: Bob Kelly, Former WU Mayor