ST9304-CS 851227 page4 COPPELL CITY HALL
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COPPELL, TX 75019
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whose hydraulics engineers stud~d - '~
the effects on the area. "It wi. Il raise --
the-water surface upstream (north)
and the floodplain Upstream'," said _~
Maier.
Maier predicts that the change ~
would cost an additional. ~
$9,000,000 above the.bond indebt- ppei-i -d Valley
edness to build the 2,045 additional "CO The Ranch/DFW Area
linear feet of bridge. Engineers pro-
posing the move had not looked at ppel d Cowboys
the hydraulics problem at the .time r~eof-the Co Dallas
of the meeting, said Maier. Volume I-I No. 90
25 cents '
Patterson stated that attorneys for Commun-ity
Riverchase were m the process of I Change Meets Opposition
looking at their legal position and
that they will "strongly and openly"
oppose the move. ' Invited to
1' ., l ,,, Reception
, Jan. 10
~ ~ The community of Coppell is in-
~ ~ vited to a reception Friday, January
t[ ,~ ~ 10, honoring three new city" of-
.~ PROla:)SED ALK;NMENT ficials, City Manager Frank Proctor,
~ Finance Director Frank Tandro, and
BELT LINEROAD City Engineer Ed Powell. The re-
m0. · .... · ...~ .,~O*D ~eption will be held at 6:30 to 8:30
eCRVE:R G~~d~STAI1ON , ,: ~x~n~ ~e.lU~ RD. p.m. at the D/FW Hilton, one of the
· o t~llllil~n~eo~'""Tu~mx hotels nearest to C, oppell, which is
HtrI'rOKI~IVE due west on Bethel Road at High-
The above drawing depicts existin~ Be. It Line Road (thin black line) and proposed Belt Line way 121.
(thick black line) and shows how upstream waters converge at the new site causing the need
for longer bridges. The drawing was prepared by Nathan & Maier Consulting Engineers. ~
by Jean Murph added safety of additional footage . ally cause a bumpy, hilly road. The railroad, which also spoke
at the railroad Crossings. He also objected to the fact that in favor of the proposal, cited as its
Not mentioned but an obvious the planned entryway into the city reason safety and a resulting re-
Efforts of several developers to .side effect of a Belt Line move from the east would be altered and duced' risk. Conceivably the rail-
mo~e Belt Line Road East 500 feet would be the additional valuable thatCoppell would not have control road also would gain financially be-
south of its current site have been frontage on both sides of the new of this. Part of Terra's long-range cause of the access to rail service
met with heavy oppbsition. Ap- road for Crow-Billingsley and Tti- plan has been to develop an entry- that it could provide.
proved for reconstruction to a four- land. They currently have frontage way in view of the golf range at Such possibilities are among the
lane road in a Spring Dallas County on only the south side. Riverchase. Terra fears the appear- reasons that Terra Land Develop-
bond vote., the County had project- Patterson was also disturbed by ance of industrial or commercial de- ment Company and other landown-
ed Belt Line to be one of its first the fact that the "fill" 500 feet south velopment that might occur be- ers to the north of Belt Line oppose
Bo'nd programs, of current Belt Line would eventu- tween the railroad and a new Belt thement,Plan.developersTerra, of Tr°thNorth'Devei°P-Lake
In an unexpected move, Crow- ,Line. Woodlands, and other individual
Billingsley and Triland, both land- ed landowners would lose their valu-
- owners and developers with front- 'Lawmen to, be Honor able frontage and consider the pro-
age on the south Belt Line side of " "
posal preposterous.
current. Belt Line, have proposed Di~ ges~ cl~a~rman ot the group of local "It
that the road be moved 500' feet at Jan 16 her residents who are organizing the won't happen," said Terra:
The proposal, angering some event. Foley, Gonce, Hayes and President and attorney ]ay Patter-
~se itwastaken first to the City ' COPPELL, TEXAS - Coppell will Jorden were the primary officers son. He said that the land vote did
'of Carroilton even though it most , honor the lawmen who solved the assigned to the case, explained bind the County to redeveloping
..dkectly affects Coppell land, was ' Mallory Elizabeth Sutton kidnap- ~o'lice Chief Griffin. Belt Line at its current location and
presented at a recent Copl:~ell City ping case by throwing a community- .In announcing the event, Boggess to a cost, which the company's eh':
Council meeting, wide appreciation dinner for them urged all coppell residents to show . gineer feels would greatly increase
Proponents argued that the at 7:30 p.m., Thursday,. January. 16, their appreciation for "heroes who with a change in location, neces-
bond vote did not bind' redevelop- 1986, according, to a spokesman for performed outstanding police work" sitating'longer bridges on the south
ment of Belt Line to its current Io~ the~ffair's organizing committee, by purchasing tickets to the January' side due to the manner in which
cation. An attorney fo~ Crow-Bi[- "The event will fete the entire 16 dinner and/or by making dona- water drains' from the-creeks and
lingsley stated that Belt Line could Coppell Police Department and the tions to the Coppelt. police Appre- floodplain land to the north. (See
be built more quickly and with less local FBI agents who worked on the Ciation Fund. drawing.) Without proper engineer-
expense because the land has al- case, and special recognition will be. '.The public, can buy tickets to the lng, areas of Coppell could flood,
ready been filled. Engineers for given to Coppell Police Chief Tom . dinner, which will be held at the said engineer Nathan Maier, of Na-
· Crbw-BillingsleY, wh° formerly Griffin, Detectives Jack Foley, Mike D/FW Airport Marriott Hotel on than E. Maier Consulting Engineers,
represented Triland and who sought G0nce and Ted Hayes and'FBI ~gent State Highway 114. from any 9f the continued on page 4
support of the County, consider the Warren lorden." said left R. Boe- ' , Continued on page 9