Lake Highlands - Lakewood | January 2023

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MARKET TEAM GENERAL MANAGER Tracy Ruckel EDITOR Kevin Cummings REPORTER Jackson King GRAPHIC DESIGNER José Jiménez ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Shannon Devore METRO LEADERSHIP PUBLISHER Leanne Libby MANAGING EDITOR William C. Wadsack MANAGING COPY EDITOR Beth Marshall SENIOR ART PRODUCTION MANAGER Kaitlin Schmidt CONTACT US 7460 Warren Parkway, Ste. 160 Frisco, TX 75034 • 5129896808 CI CAREERS communityimpact.com/careers PRESS RELEASES lhlnews@communityimpact.com ADVERTISING lhlads@communityimpact.com Learn more at communityimpact.com/advertising EMAIL NEWSLETTERS communityimpact.com/newsletter PODCAST communityimpact.com/podcast SUPPORT US Join your neighbors by giving to the CI Patron program. Funds support our journalistic mission to provide trusted, local news in your community. Learn more at communityimpact.com/cipatron ABOUT US Owners John and Jennifer Garrett launched Community Impact in 2005, and the company is still locally owned today. We have expanded to include hundreds of team members and have created our own software platform and printing facility. CI delivers 35+ localized editions across Texas to more than 2.5 million residential mailboxes.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS MONTH

FROM TRACY: Our Annual Community Guide brings you stories of growth and plans for the future. We also celebrate 2022 with our dining and shopping listings (see Pages 8-9). You will nd updates on upcoming transportation, education and government news and more. Enjoy, and welcome to 2023! Tracy Ruckel, GENERAL MANAGER

FROM KEVIN: In this issue, we highlight the top stories we think will shape 2023 in Lake Highlands and Lakewood. Those include plans for the relaunch of an electric scooter program (see Page 10) and election updates for the local Dallas City Council positions (see Page 12). Our front-page story takes a look at the planned update to the ForwardDallas land use update and what it means for the city’s future. Kevin Cummings, EDITOR

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