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August 16, 1996
Brent Wicker
15303 Dallas Pazkway, Suite 1390
Dallas, TX 75248
Re: Belt Line Road ST 93-04
Deaz Mr. Wicker:
This letter is written as a follow-up to our telephone conversation of August 15, 1996 in which we
discussed the status of Belt Line Road from MacArthur to Denton Tap. As I stated, the County's
schedule for this project is eazly 1997. However, I expressed some concern whether or not that was a
realistic timetable. Beyond that we discussed some drainage issues associated with the project. The
majority of those issues are created by the undeveloped land south of Belt Line Road owned by TU
Electric in conjunction with their North Lake Power Plant. In following generally accepted drainage
design criteria, the drainage system would be designed to convey all the runoff from the property south
of Belt Line Road in a developed state and take it north to the creek that crvo;les ~tdeeal~ly dev lop ow 1l
However, I have expressed a concern as to whether or not that property
remain as open space. With this letter I am providing you a copy of a letter that I senpt t P ~ Electric
on May 15, 1996 requesting that they respond to the City on their future plans for this roe I have
since followed up with Mr. Thompson on August 8, 1996 again requesting a letter. Mr. Thompson
indicated that it should not be any problem to obtain some type of correspondence from TU Electric
stating that the property should remain in its natural state. If in fast that is the case, it is quite possible
that the City, in conjunction with Dallas County, would not need to construct what is shown as Alternates
1, 2 or 3 on the attached drainage plan. It appears as though Alternate 2, as shown on the plan, could
have the most detrimental impact to the property which you are currently marketing.
At this point, I request that you use this information strictly for what it is: "Preliminary Inforntatian" to
assist the City in making a decision. Under no circumstances should you view this as final design of a
drainage system that would bisect your property. If in fact the final design were to take some
configuration of Alternate 2, then obviously you would havepo~minvolved in that decision making
process, as the City would have to acquire easements from the ro I am very hopeful that we will
be able to work through TU Electric and not have to construct the off site drainage system north of Belt
Line Road.
feeltlfree~toy oruacot m~ however[ I wall not haveeany additional infoormationvuntil TU Electr'tpc has
contacted the City.
Sincerely,
Kenneth M. Griffin, P.E. attachment
Assistant City Manager/City Engineer