Monday, October 6, 2008

Fort Worth to approve more pipelines

By Pegasus News wire

The Fort Worth City Council meeting is at 7 pm on Tuesday at Fort Worth City Hall. Key items to be discussed are as follows:

• The meeting will start with a series of presentations, both from citizens and the council. Not that I'm saying punctuality isn't important, but if you look up and it's 6:55 and you think "oh crap!" because you wanted to go to the city council meeting you probably would still get there in time and only miss the presentations because there are six of them.
• The council will be considering waivers for more high impact well sites. One for the 8th Avenue Railroad Lease Located at 2592 8th Avenue and on the Ritchie Lease Located at 4591 Huffines Road.
• The council will be authorizing Texas Midstream a public right-of-way use permit for another pipeline, this one along Eastside of Alton Road Crossing Bellaire Drive South, West Berry Street, Westcliff Road South, Hilltop Drive, West Biddison Street and South Hills Avenue. They are also granting the permits for pipelines across Trinity Boulevard, approximately 540 feet north of Grand River Street and across Alsbury Road, approximately 782 feet east of Interstate Highway 35 and a second crossing at Old FM 1187, approximately 836 feet north of Rendon Crowley Road. I'm starting to think that pretty soon every residence in Fort Worth will be sitting on top of a pipeline. Anyone think Texas Midstream is playing a convaluted game of connect the dots? (And when I say "dots" I mean houses.)
• This week the council is (likely) approving a laundry list of zoning changes, mostly consisting of changes in residential and commercial zoning. There are a few cases on the zoning docket that are recommended for denial.

Source: City of Fort Worth

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