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How the Katy Lincoln Trail Project Could Upend Life for a Blind Resident


Brittany King has lived in the Turtle Creek Terrace Condominiums in Oak Lawn for the last eight years. Having lost her vision as a teenager, she is legally blind. Her condo gives her the accessibility she needs to maintain independent living.
“The Upcreek and Oak Lawn areas are one of the few parts of Dallas that have the ability to accommodate the needs of people with disabilities like myself through the vital and direct access to public transportation, grocery stores and essential services,” King told the City Council last Wednesday.
For about the last five years, King has been fighting to maintain her way of life, threatened by a development that was up for a final City Council vote this week. Lincoln Property Co. has wanted to upzone the land so they could build taller structures, increase density and get more bang for their buck for a multi-family development. The development has been dubbed the Lincoln Katy Trail project. ....

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Ethics Complaint Against City Plan Commissioner Dismissed


The Ethics Advisory Commission dismissed an anonymous complaint against District 14 City Plan Commissioner Wayne Garcia at a hearing this week.
The complaint alleged several violations of the city’s code of ethics in regards to a business deal he signed onto with two opponents of a zoning case in his district.
Garcia failed to evaluate a zoning change application in a timely manner and support or deny such development “following consistent standards fairly and uniformly applied to all applicants in District 14,” according to the complaint. This created unwarranted expense for the city and an appearance of a conflict of interest that reflects imprudence and poor judgment, the complaint claimed. ....

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Migrants. and it is i.c.e., not the military, that will be in charge of migrant detention and support. but like julia said, in places like el paso, it is the humanitarian issues that locals feel are not really being addressed to a large extent. when you talk to wayne garcia from anunation house here, he tells me a thousand migrants are dropped off in the streets of el paso every day. it is a crisis that is overcrowding the shelters, that is spilling on to the streets and the city is having to pick up the slack. unfortunately, steph, last night we learned about the death of a 2-year-old child from guatemala after being apprehended by cdp. i spoked to the counsel here. he tells me the child was at the hospital for over a month and is now the fourth child from that country who has died after crossing the border and after having been apprehended by cdp. ....

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