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BY COMMUNITY IMPACT STAFF
Fort Worth preps for land ll’s 2036 closure With Fort Worth’s land ll set to close in 2036, city o cials are weighing long-term waste management options. What’s happening? At the Oct. 14 council meeting, Environ- mental Services Director Cody Whittenburg said planning with the city’s strategic waste management partners will be key leading up to the city’s land ll reaching capacity. O cials set 8 murals for Keller Sports Park Keller City Council approved an agreement with the artists behind She Draws on Walls for eight new murals to be painted at Keller Sports Park. The murals were approved unanimously at a regular City Council meeting Nov. 4. The gist The city is requesting eight murals with themed sports nostalgia be drawn at Keller Sports Park through an agreement not to exceed $42,240, per city documents. The total cost will be paid through the Keller Development Corporation fund and the Keller Sports Park Renovation Project budget. Amy Brines and Jimmy Jenkins are Fort Worth- based artists who go by the name She Draws on Walls. They will be installing the 89-square-foot paintings at the park, according to documents. She Draws on Walls were one of 35 applicants whose proposals for the new murals were reviewed by the Public Arts Board and the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board in May 2025. The project is expected start at the end of November and take four to six weeks to complete.
TAD looks into vote allocation error A typo is at the forefront of an issue at the Tarrant Appraisal District. A four-hour meeting Nov. 3 ended with the board voting to hire an independent third party to investigate any irregularities surrounding the 2024 and 2025 elections. What happened? Each year, Tarrant County’s taxing entities vote to ll ve of the nine TAD board of directors seats. There are a total of 5,000 votes possible split between these taxing entities. Eric Crile, a candidate last year who failed to earn a board spot, discovered an error in June. A re ghter for the city of Dallas, Crile chose to run again for the TAD board and noticed the taxable value for the Tarrant County Hospital District, or JPS Health, was pasted in the cell for Tarrant County College. Chief Appraiser Joe Don Bobbitt said even with the error, based on the correct number of votes, the election results did not change.
The eight proposed mural designs have a sports nostalgia theme and were presented to council Aug. 19.
COURTESY CITY OF KELLER
Council OKs site plan for $22M parking garage Roanoke City Council approved the site plan for a parking garage on US 377 between Main Street and Bowie Street at the Oct. 28 council meeting. The overview The ve-story parking garage is on 0.902 acres and includes 430 parking spaces, Roanoke Devel- opment Services Administrator JR Hames said. “It’s a beautiful structure,” Mayor Scooter Gierisch said. “You’re always concerned when you think of a parking garage, but this thing is some- thing really good. We’re excited about it.” The cost for the garage is $22 million and will be paid for with a certi cate of obligations bond, which city o cials approved the issuance of on Oct. 14. The construction is anticipated to start in 2026 and is expected to take 18 months, Roanoke o cials said.
The garage will add more than 400 parking spots to downtown Roanoke by 2027.
COURTESY CITY OF ROANOKE
The background The garage is being built to address a parking issue based on a tra c study that was completed for Oak Street in 2019, Community Impact previ- ously reported. Oak Street would be 486 parking spots short once all developments are completed, said Jamie Snyder, senior parking consultant at Walter P. Moore, in the study. The architect for the project is GFF Architects, per city documents.
“[The land ll] will ... reach its capacity in 11 years and we’ve got to start planning for the future.” CODY WHITTENBURG, ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DIRECTOR
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