November 2, 2009

Drafting a LAKE WORTH VISION MASTER PLAN

Several NASLW members and other local Lake residents attended the City of Fort Worth Planning Department meeting held Monday, October 26, 2009 at C.F. Brewer High School.  To get a perspective of the recently drafted Lake Worth Vision Plan click the following City of Fort Worth website link:

http://www.fortworthgov.org/planninganddevelopment/misc.aspx?id=70200

The meeting was also highlighted in the Channel 8 news cast that same evening, and during the newscast the following morning.

Presenters of the plan were Councilman Carter Burdette, Mr Eric Fladager, Comprehensive Planning Manager  who provided PowerPoint slides and the details of  the 6 part document , and also Ms Becky Pils, Senior Planner, who was instrumental in gathering public commentary.  Many local residents, and several neighborhood association members, offered intelligent, heartfelt and insightful comments to the presenters and us attendees.

The Planning Department plans to have additional meetings over the course of coming months (primarily November-December) which will be scheduled with local neighborhood associations and other groups to further discuss the Plan’s recommendations and to receive more detailed comments from stakeholders.

The Steering Committee of NASLW is in process of organizing  our NASLW public meeting with the Planners for primarily south shore residents. The date, time and location will be identified and communicated via this website and by emails to members. It will likely be in EARLY DECEMBER.

Meantime, the Committee is providing here our NASLW 2008 Slide presentation that we gave last year to the LW Vision Consultant Team. You will note that we advocated strongly for conservative measures to preserve open space around the Lake and also addressed other issues we've been working to remedy. (Click Here for the Presentation)

We respectfully request that our south shore residents who care to make written comments on any aspect of the City's DRAFT VISION PLAN, or on any other important and relevant elements related to the PLAN, direct them to the Steering Committee c/o Gale Cupp at  ga.cupp@gmail.com

All comments will be collected into a written response to be reviewed by NASLW members, and then ultimately pressed into a document for communication to Councilman Carter Burdette and the Planning Department.