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CITY COUNCIL
Determined home owners sit baok and listen while attorney
Edward Winn argues their cause before the Dallas City
Council. The homeowners are protesting a proposed
shopping center in far North Dallas, a shopping center
that will cover approximately 93 acres. Before inn
gets to the meat of the protest, he suggests councilman
Underwood leave the room, sinee Underwood owns property
near the proposed center, at North Central Expressway andNorthwest Highway.
MAN STANDING
Underwood agrees it might be best for him to leave, but
)byor Cabell says stay, and the councilman site down.
inn says the giant center will ruin what he calls a fine
residential neighborhood. He says the main objection is
that the center, to be built on land owned by the Hillerest
Foundation, will create an unbearable traffic problem.
On a good shopping day, inn says about 35,000 additional
Cars would be in the area. He says the whole idea is
immoral, since the area is under permanent residentialzoning, and shouldn't be changed,
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: City council], script, July 3, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976576/m1/1/?q=%221961-07%22&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.