North Dallas
Neighborhood Alliance

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Community Update Meeting

Code Compliance, Animal Services and
updates from Council Member Sandy Greyson

TUESDAY, June 5
7:00-8:30 PM
NORTH DALLAS POLICE STATION COMMUNITY ROOM
(6969 MCCALLUM/HILLCREST)
The meeting is open to all residents

Area Crime Statistics - what is reported and what isn't, how can we find out whether everything in our area is showing up?
City of Dallas Code Compliance - is it okay for residents to backwash/drain pools into street or storm sewer, how many garage sales can a homeowner have and where does it have to be?
City of Dallas Animal Services - what are the new laws about pet ownership, how does one apply to be a pet foster parent?
Re-development of Hillcrest Village (at Arapaho & Hillcrest)
Dallas Midtown Development (Valley View – Galleria area) – is the project dead?
DART Cotton Belt Corridor
Happenings at City Hall and Q&A - Council Member Greyson

Please note, NDNA memberships ($35.00) for calendar 2018 are now due.

You can go to http://www.ndna-tx.org/registration/registrationList.aspx at the bottom of the page click on “Click Here to Download the PDF form to fill out and send in the U.S. mail.” Please mail the form and check to Membership Chair: Rose Harder, 7306 Heathermore Drive, Dallas 75248.

Thank you for your involvement and service to our community!

Matt Bach
North Dallas Neighborhood Alliance
President@ndna-tx.org

Planning and Urban Design gave us the following two useful URLs.

The first one lists upcoming street repaving.

http://dallascityhall.com/departments/public-works/Pages/pavement-management.aspx

The next one is a bit harder to use/follow, but it covers the proposed alley work.

http://dallascityhall.com/departments/public-works/dallasbondprogram/Pages/proposition-detail.aspx?proposition=A

The alleys were the ones identified in the 2017 bond package.

Corridor Progress Report

The Corridor Progress Reports include details about each of the major projects that NTTA currently is undertaking. You can subscribe to receive any of the project e-newsletters or Corridor Progress Reports automatically each quarter.

VALLEY VIEW - GALLERIA AREA PLAN

The OmniPlan site – Valley View – Galleria Area Plan PDF can be viewed by clicking here:

Draft Valley View – Galleria Area Plan
(PowerPoint PDF with 85 slides updated 05-01-2013)

The Beck Venture’s Website addressing disclosed plans for this developer’s concepts on their 106 acres is available at:

http://www.dallasmidtown.com/

The Dallas Plan Commission will be holding a further hearing on this plan on the afternoon of May 16th and City Council will hold their hearing on May 22nd.

NDNA Membership

If your homeowner's association would like to become an NDNA Member, just click here and find your homeowner's association and then complete the 2018 Membership Application.

If you were a member in 2017 and have not updated your registration by March 30th, 2018, you will not be able to visit the Member's Only web pages without updating your registration and paying the annual dues. Just log into the "Members Only" web and then click on Complete NDNA 2018 Membership Form or if you were the President or the NDNA Designated Representative you can easily update your Membership by clicking on the Update Your HOA Membership Information link.

Please save the date - upcoming NDNA Meetings:

Jun 5
Apr 19 or 12 (date yet to be finalized, to be a joint meeting with RANDCO, Northwood Hills and Valley View HOAs, to be held at Sunnyland Furniture store, the NW corner of Coit and Spring Valley)
Sep 19 (tentatively scheduled as a breakfast meeting, location yet TBD)

Unless otherwise noted NDNA meetings are held in the community room at the North Central Dallas Police station (Hillcrest and McCallum).

The programs for NDNA’s upcoming meeting are still being developed. If you have an idea for a meeting program please share it with us at: President@ndna-tx.org

Thank you for your participation!

March 23rd, 2018

Dallas Man Sentenced for Committing Several Bank Robberies

Timothy Thomas, 40, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to serve a total of 174 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $17,534.00 in restitution, following his guilty plea in October 2017 to five counts of bank robbery. Details

March 23rd, 2018

Six from Cherokee County Guilty of Drug Trafficking in East Texas

Six Jacksonville, Texas men have pleaded guilty following a drug trafficking investigation in the Eastern District of Texas. Details

March 21st, 2018

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Guatemalan Man Who Used a Suspected Pipe Bomb in a Bank Robbery

A federal grand jury in Lubbock, Texas, returned an indictment today charging Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez, 43, a Guatemalan citizen, with one count of bank robbery for the November 20, 2017, robbery of Happy State Bank in Lubbock, Texas. Details