David_Wilson

@ LG Resident

Let me correct your sentences, please...

AND WHO THE HELL WOULD INVEST HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN A BUSINESS [that has a Restaurant Certificate of Occupancy but does not have a kitchen and therefore is really a Bar] TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK AND TAKE OFF.

and

I am pretty sure the majority of these business owners plan on sticking around [earning as much money as they can before they close, since the average lifespan of an illegal bar on Lower Greenville is about three years]

and finally

Illegal Bars huh... Easy solution, fire up the grill and get the kitchen going. Problem solved. [Damn, the floorplans submitted with the Building Inspection permit application included a kitchen, but well you know money is tight and we kinda just forgot to build the kitchen. But if our customers ask for food, we can send them to the McDonald's down the street.]

@ LGResident

Since when does the length of residency become a determinator of when someone can or cannot make a comment here or anywhere else?

You gonna make me an offer I can't refuse in order to keep me quiet?

It looks like Ms Hunt and Ms Medrano at the City Council agree with Mr Adelman and all the legitimate businesses on Lower Greenville - did you see this story on KTVT last night?

http://cbs11tv.com/local/Greenville.A...

Hmmm, looks like the legitimate business owners have an issue with the illegal bars too?

But I guess you won't let Ms Hunt speak on the issue either, since she's only been on the Council for four years and in the neighborhood for ten?

to JBDallas

I am trying to understand how a story about a restaurant event should bring out your comments about bars.

Last time I looked, the illegal bars were the problem here. And I don't remember anyone ever declaring this area an entertainment zone for the whole metroplex (does anyone still use that word??).

To botch a line from an old movie (I think), I was not here to sign the RPO petitions, but I am sure glad it was here when I moved in.

I had no idea there was a quota on the amount of topics that are of no interest to me to which I should comment. Are you the keeper of records and goalsetting?

Scott, since you blog so much here on just about everything posted, does that mean you don't have life that revolves around the keyboard and a camping toilet by your desk??

Better to keep your mouth shut and make people wonder what you are thinking, than to say something and prove your stupidity.

to David in Plano from David in Dallas

Ignore Russ' comment, he is just one of many Avi haters here on the blog (I can already feel the heat of flamers looking at this post).

Avi runs a website on lowest greenville called BarkingDogs.org which regularly rips the bad bars on his end of greenville for their bad behavior

And with his neighbors - and i live here but was not here when the petitions were going around - petitioned to get all the streets blocked on weekend evenings so bar patrons can't park here and bother us

Russ and others are just frothing about this party because Avi was hired to organize it by restaurants (no bars allowed in the group) that are trying to stand up over the bad bars and give back something to the neighborhood besides pissing in the yards. I cannot wait to get out to the toga party and buy food from places that I might visit for more than a beer.

Look at the list of restaurants in the party group, tasteofgreenvilleavenue.com - most of them are more than 20 years old. Most of the bad bars are less than five years old (except for my favorite, old crow).

Russ and his friends are afraid - and I completely understand it - that if people who live here demand more restaurants than bars, and show it with their money, then the bad bars will go somewhere else.

Damn good idea if you ask me. But Russ will say, Oh no he did not ask me!

Does that help?

Duck, here comes a flamer!!!!

The event is on the southern end of Lowest Greenville, according to the website.

I have heard from a restaurant owner who is participating that they have sold 10 booths in the first week to association members, will sell 10 more next week and then have booths from restaurants in other areas near lower greenville.

They also cut a deal with the people who own the large parking lots on Prospect Avenue and Sears Avenue to have free parking on the party day (read: no valets, no parking attendants).

I think three months is a lofty but unreachable goal. And management - which is not raising confidence very high - is the least of their problems.

The Poor David's space was notorious for its lack of soundproofing. But PD rarely had a loud country/western band blowing out the windows. When they did, it was on a weekday evening and early in the schedule.

The minute the first note comes out of the new speakers, it will resonate into the neighborhood and faster than you can say "Dallas Police Department, what is your emergency?", the noise complaints will follow.

While we need a coffee house badly (Pearl Cup is great, but it's a long walk), the idea of drinking coffee in a place that smells of rancid beer is just so not desirable.

Their 200 patrons will complain about the lack of free parking in the area - all the streets close by are Resident Only on several nights a week. They won't pay 10 dollars for a valet parking space across the street.

The three months they might be open will be like watching a slow and boring train wreck movie - you already know the ending so you just wish it would wrap up already and move to the next scene.

If Avi has strings to pull, maybe he can help me get rid of a speeding ticket or two?

Someone who does not live down here like I do is trying to make the problems we have here (and I have been here less than a year) no different than any other neighborhood. Not a true comparison by any means.

I lived at home for the longest time till I finally got a real job (thanks, Bush) in a very quiet residential neighborhood. The nearest commercial activity was about five blocks away. No beer bottles on our lawn, no fights on our streets. So there goes your 'it's the same all over' argument.

Even if you hire a college kid with a camera, that's at least $100 per evening for his time. If you are willing to go the expense, as you claim, to hire someone to follow anyone - not just Avi - that you disagree with, then it's very clear you have a vested interest in this matter and your opinion does not carry any weight.

Like I said in a blog way back days ago, I have only been here on Prospect in a fiveplex for about a year. I see the difference between my RPO street and a street without RPO, and I like my street.

I don't think you are a stalker, you are an intimidating person and a bully, supposedly the qualities you don't like in anyone who disagrees with you. And that lowers the relatively positive discussion we have here.

TO Travis Bush

Since my last comment, I have gone to the Belmont Neighborhood Association site

There is a separate page for RPO streets.

http://www.residentparkingonly.com

There are 25 zones in Dallas, of which I think (since I don't know all the names) 18 are near here.

The others are in places I don't recognize, except for one or two near Cedar Springs and one near a sprayground near my parents' home near Trammel and Abrams. And I know how bad that gets in the summer when 1000's of kids and their parents show up to get wet.

The Bushies are not on the list :)

I am not sure your argument about this being the only place where the streets belong to the residents holds true.

to chrisdanger

Since I was not here to sign the RPO petition, I see no way to give my predecessor who did sign it (I rent) the money

I would prefer it go towards paying the City's $200 million dollar deficit however

• Travis

As someone who lives on a street with RPO and liking it (even though I was not here when it started), I don't see the problem with a $75 fine for illegal parking.

Can you tell me why you think it's a problem, or am I not getting your point correctly?

I live on the 5800 block of Prospect, which has been an Resident Only Parking street since a year ago (before I moved here, so not sure exactly when).

Tonight I went to Public House for dinner with my parents (yes it's a good dinner place). As we walked down the street on 5700 Prospect, I noticed how empty the street was.

Then I looked up and saw the new ROP signs posted on the street. They are for zone 16, just like my street.

And of course someone had parked and walked, because they had a large green ticket envelope on their windshield.

The valets told me the fine for parking tickets is $75 but that sounded kinda high.

I have been out of town and missed all the fun. But had a great vacation no matter.

After reading the comments here and on Unfair Park, I think Adelman is doing the right thing by not talking here. I was hit with a ticket like this once and it took nine months to go to court, and it was dismissed when the other person did not bother to show up.

That said, it would be nice to see or hear his side of the problem.

And if he does not release the tape until the trial, that means it will be a public record, right, so we can get a copy of it??

Would the police have not seized the tape if they thought it had evidence anyways?

I have a feeling it has something that Avi is saving for the last minute.