Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Unusual Fort Worth City Council vote regarding Arlington Heights
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Unusual city council action in Fort Worth, which is chronicled by the S-T:
A divided City Council voted to bar a three-story office building from the edge of an established neighborhood in the Cultural District, the first move in a political chess match that residents say will determine the future of Arlington Heights.
The vote was unusual because most of the council members were elected with the support of neighborhood groups and because it pitted six of the nine members against the councilman who represents Arlington Heights, Carter Burdette.
A majority of council members supported the zoning change, but because the zoning commission had recommended against the change -- and because at least 20 percent of the property owners near the site also opposed it -- the item required a seven-vote "supermajority" to pass.
The proposal would have allowed Duer Wagner and his family, who are prominent in Fort Worth's oil business, to build the office building at the southwest corner of Montgomery Street and Crestline Drive. The building would have extended into the neighborhood on four lots zoned residential.
Residents said they understand that most of Montgomery Street will eventually be lined with commercial buildings. But they said the proposed Wagner building was too tall and was out of character with the neighborhood of small bungalows.
Posted by Blair
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