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Good God, it's frightening to listen to the elitist comments here. What pray tell is so wrong about resident's who are respectful of others and who are polite in a public place being disappointed that disrespectful people (parents, teens, children) can selfishly destroy the enjoyment of a public area for others? If you are enjoying your own front yard on a pleasant summer evening and a car parks on the public street in front of your home and begins blaring music to disturb the surroundings, you are certainly going to take action and it's fair that you can and do. Why should disruptive behavior be any more tolerable when it moves to a place where more people are trying to enjoy otherwise pleasant surroundings? Certainly no legal difference in those cases. If you express disappointment about such selfishly disruptive behavior, you must be a narrow minded elitist, worthy of contempt? Or are you truly the elitist for being so quick to ridicule this simple concern of others about a few who enjoy disrupting life for the many? And for the record, I live in FW and have never been to this square. Just shocked at the arrogance of those who are so quick to elevate themselves to a superior position simply because you don't share the same concern or disappointment. Those are the truly small minds.

"the bubba factor"? Oh yes, I forget. If someone disagrees with my superior intellect and judgement then they obviously must be an ignorant "bubba". No intelligent person could possibly reach a different conclusion than I do, and if they do they must certainly be a "bubba".
Sheesh. Such tired elitist logic. Almost as tired as anyone who can turn a simple case of vandalism (motivation irrelevant)into a political debate. Leave it to a judgemental elite to find excuses to justify simple law violations.

Bill Davis and his railroad did NOT contribute anything for Tillery Park playground. The contributions were from Fort Worth Energy (which is unrelated to FW&WRR), XTO, Chesapeake, Ben E. Keith Co., and Moncrief Foundation. Check your facts please. Bill Davis haaaaates the Berkeley neighborhood because years ago they opposed some actions he's taken on his railyard in their backyard. And they can't trust him because he made promises in years past about his railyard operations in order to gain neighborhood cooperation, then he refused to perform as promised after he got the permission he needed. Tough businessman, but often an obstinate one. He's the best argument AGAINST the supreme power that the Feds give to railroads.

"Where is the shakedown?" Where,you ask? Well exactly what sort of win-win compromise is Jim Marshal proposing that doesn't involve either Union Pacific or Chesapeake or Colonial Country Club giving up some additional portion of their property solely because you don't like how they propose to use their current holdings. You expect UPR to change their lawful business operation on their own land solely to accomodate your demand that a third party (Chesapeake) not use their own property in an equally lawful manner. That's as much of a shakedown as any Sopranos episode I've seen. No matter how you rationalize it, you want someone else to spend their money because there is something you want and because you've decided they can afford it because they are otherwise more prosperous than you. Sounds like a shakedown to me.

Once again your disregard for facts is astounding. However, your reliance upon Ms. Janovsky could be the obvious explanation. Since she was the first to posit the outrageous allegation that one neighborhood had acted in total disregard for a neighboring 'hood, it's becoming clear where you come from. And why facts mean nothing to you. It's unfortunate that you were not present at the Ryan Place association meeting where Ms. Janovsky tried to disrupt the presentation by baseless allegations that Ryan Place and Berkeley had acted with disregard to other neighborhoods, or the Joint Neighborhood Committee, which includes other neighborhoods in addition to Mistletoe, Ryan, Berkeley. Had you been there you would have seen how her initial accusation that the JNC was not aware of the Berkeley/Ryan Place action was proven incorrect and baseless, and how she then was forced to change her disruption tactics and posed a new concern for the supposed proximity to the Daggett School. Her transparent attempt to change tactics in mid-stream after the initial approach failed was laughable, and the audience was observed to react to her appropriately...with little respect. Your lack of facts? Well, how about the fact that the proposed drill site was shown to be more than 600 feet away from any Mistletoe residence and eveb north of the railroad bridge? Only by ignoring those public statements of the Berkeley "deal" could you make your allegations. Raising the accusation of "thrown Mistletoe under the bus" (which is direct quote from Janovsky, I might add) in the face of such readily available facts can only be attributed to a conscious intent to misrepresent, or an incredible lack of concern for truth vs. the chance to raise a fearful allegation. As for water: Gas uses LESS than 1% of all water in FW. Fact. Check it out. Highest user is lawn irrigation. And gas folk are pursuing recycling because it's in their financial interest. Can irrigating homeowners say the same thing? Traffic: Are you aware of the city ordinance limitations that insure gas traffic is kept to truck and commercial routes that already carry such traffic? Have you bothered to point out those "facts" when you raise your fears? Did Ms. Janovsky bother to tell people that those schools that she now suddenly champions are more than 1000 feet from any possible drill site? Of course not, it's much better to imply frightening proximity than to be limited by real facts. Sadly, the facts don't support your agenda, but you can keep trying. The fact that you can't recognize how posing baseless arguments that are easily blunted serves to damage your message rather than enhance it is what I find amazing. But keep talking. Thanks to folk like you and Don Young, the rest of us look that much more reasonable. And what sort of leadership do you expect from the city council. This is private property and private landowners can lease or not with whomever they choose to do business with. The city council can do nothing outside of their permit regulatory authority to affect my contract rights. And their regulatory authority is limited. With no engineering or safety facts to support a permit denial, it will not stand legally. And unfortunately, for your agenda, the engineering and safety facts come down in favor of drilling, even on 8th. Which makes the Berkeley/Ryan deal even that much more important. But keep fighting it. If you disrupt it enough, you'll increase the likelihood of more leasing that will support drilling on 8th. Berkeley & Ryan have taken a great deal of land out of that market, but you are certainly free to force people back to that option. That would be very smart.