CITY& COUNTY
News from Denton County, Lewisville & Flower Mound
CITY HIGHLIGHT FLOWERMOUND The Flower Mound Town Council approved the site plan for a Doctor’s Urgent Care during a March 7 meeting. The building will be located east of Long Prairie Road and north of Forest Vista Drive. The planning and zoning board recommended approval by a 6-0 vote on Feb. 28, according to the agenda item. The unanimous approval includes two deviations. One deviation is the addition of 10 extra parking spaces. The developer plans to have a second phase of construction at a later time, and the developer would prefer to lay those parking spaces now, planning director Lexin Murphy said. The council also approved a deviation in the Town’s Urban Design Plan for a roof pitch. The medical o ce has a slight roof pitch and at roo ng, as well. QUOTEOFNOTE “I’MPROUDOF THE CULTUREWE HAVE CREATED.” RAYMOND SUAREZ, DENTON COUNTY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY CEO ON RESIGNING NUMBER TOKNOW Lewisville City Council approved a $3.3 million bid to Sisters Asphalt Inc. for the I-35E utility relocation from Fox Avenue to College Street during a March 7 council meeting. The scope of work includes about 1,460 linear feet of wastewater mains, 640 linear feet of wastewater line crossings and 5,340 linear feet of water mains. $3.3M
BY SAMANTHA DOUTY Lewisville City Council approves funds for water tower demolition
gallon elevated storage tank $122,767 The project includes the removal of the 500K
21 council agenda item. The tower will be taken down sometime mid- March and will take two to three days to demolish. Funding for this project is avail- able in the Elevated Water Tower Capital Improvement Project, according to city documents. The tower was decommissioned from the water system in 2021.
LEWISVILLE The Lewisville City Council unanimously approved the funds needed to demolish the city’s longstanding Fighting Farmers water tower on I-35E. The $122,767 project includes the removal and disposal of the 500,000-gallon, all-steel, elevated storage tank, according to the Feb.
Thewater tower at I 35E andMain Street is no longer connected to the city’s utility system.
SOURCE: CITY OF LEWISVILLE COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
FlowerMound launches newinformationhub
DCTACEOresigns, search talks tostart atMarch24meeting
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with Dallas Area Rapid Transit to forge an agreement to construct a joint rail facility
BY SAMANTHA DOUTY
FLOWERMOUND The town launched a new development services data hub, according to a town news release. The hub is a “one-stop shop” for development information and statistics, according to the release. The data hub is an expanded version of the town’s annual growth report. Residents can nd data and informa- tion on permits and applications related to new developments. The informational data hub will be updated yearly and can be found at www. ower-mound.com/devdata. Hub o erings Flower Mound launched a data hub for its residents.
to support the DCTA A-train and DART Silver Line operations, according to the release. “I am very thankful to the board of directors and staff for the constant support, and I’m proud of the culture we have created based on servant leader- ship principles,” Suarez said in the release. “It is very rewarding to see ridership growing to prepandemic levels so quickly after launching the systemwide GoZone program. Through this transformation journey, the agency is now more accessible, responsive, and resilient and able to respond to the communi- ties we serve, and that’s a great feeling of accomplishment.” Raymond Suarez
BY SAMANTHA DOUTY
DENTON COUNTY Raymond Suarez, CEO of the Denton County Transportation Author- ity, resigned during a March 7 meeting. The DCTA board appointed Dep- uty CEO Paul Cristina as interim CEO during the meeting. The board plans to discuss launching a search for Suarez’s replacement at the March 24 regularly scheduled meeting. A reason for the depar- ture was not provided. Suarez joined the DCTA as the chief operating o cer in 2014 and became CEO in September 2018, according to a DCTA news release. He led the agency through the legislative reconstitution of the board of directors and through new initiatives during the COVID- 19 pandemic.
The hub contains 4
dashboards related to
• planning • building
• population • engineering services
inspections
SOURCE: TOWN OF FLOWER MOUND COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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CASAofDentonCountycelebrates 30yearsof communityservice
MEETINGSWE COVER Lewisville City Council meets at 7 p.m. the rst and third Monday of each month. www.cityo ewisville.com Flower Mound Town Council meets at 6 p.m. the rst and third Monday of each month. www. ower-mound.com Highland Village City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. www.highlandvillage.org
BY MATT PAYNE
DENTON COUNTY Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Denton County celebrated its 30-year anniversary on Feb. 14. CASA of Denton County has raised community awareness of child abuse since February 1992. The facility at 614 N. Bell Ave. opened about a year and a half ago, Development Director Tina Corbett said. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ribbon-cutting ceremony was incorporated with the organization’s 30-year anniversary. LEWISVILLE FLOWER MOUND HIGHLAND VILLAGE EDITION • MARCH 2022
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Denton County has raised community awareness of child abuse since February 1992.
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