Editor,
The flag in front of my house says, “Come and Take It.” Yet the city intends to take without warning half my front yard for a sidewalk. This sidewalk, if allowed, will kill huge Live Oaks down our street, destroy Native American artifacts, create flooding from loss of soil over The Aquifer Recharge Zone sitting the edge of the Balcones fault (which means the sidewalk will crack). As a sidewalk on one side of the street, it is a liability. And, there are further concerns regarding property rights.
As someone who attends nearly all of the meetings scheduled by City Hall, reads the packets it was a great shock to me there has been no outreach or official notification for this Belvin Street Sidewalk Project. Apparently, the decisions were all based on an “internal study conducted by city hall.” On Jan. 24, I was promised by a city staff person that this documentation would be provided, yet still after repeated requests I have received nothing.
