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Thursday, September 29, 1983
Vol. 15, No. 21
Lucas sewage
plant gets OK
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However, Paine qualified his
Government official combines business sense with new job
Creek plant was formed some denied.
Fairview mayor resigns from office
He also expounded on current , “There has been a hesitancy
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road plans
for maintaining accurate
records of all transactions of
the city and maximizing in-
terest income of the city’s idle
worked for the city of Arlington
Heights as its chief accountant.
“I was responsible for all ac-
counting functions; making
sure the audit report was out
timely, helping with the
budgeting process, doing in-
vestments from time to time
West side story
Planners seek balance
for urban growth push
Commission. Hearing examiner
Phillip Paine recommended the
commission approve the pro-
posed plant.
five years is “to coerce the right
kind of businesses into Fair-
view to support continued
growth of the city while hot
overly taxing the city services.”
another section of town, leaving
it an unsightly blemish.
City planners are attempting
to avoid any such flaws in the
city by striving to achieve a
balanced community between
east and west Allen.
To date, the majority of new
residential and commercial
development has been to the
east of U.S. Highway 76.
However, the greatest potential
but now “we have instituted a
strong Planning and Zoning
Commission with dedicated
members and the start of real
planning in Fairview.”
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Maintaining the financial in-
tegrity of city government in
Allen is one of Carol Maier’s
foremost goals as the city’s new
finance director.
Today marks her fourth day
on the job after recently being
hired by City Manager Jon Me-
“We want to do whatever is
necessary to protect that lake,”
NTMWD executive director
Carl Riehn said, but added, “It
doesn’t make sense what is
recommended by the hearing
examiner.”
A 10/15 permit requires on a
See SEWAGE page 3A
invested and spent where they
have been budgeted for by the
city council and in general just
to make sure they’re safeguard-
ed in the city itself—Being an
auditor, just making sure that
there are controls that say the
funds are fully invested and
that they are posted correctly,
that the reports go out to the ci-
ty council correctly so that they .
can make decisions based upon
the information that I’ve given
them.
“And I think that informa-
tion is very important because
by giving bad information
they’re going to make wrong
decisions. I think it’s very im-
portant to make sure they’re
getting the information that’s
correct.”
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categories are transportation, economic and
social-environmental.
the biggest bottleneck right now.
“We’re going to fix the dogleg. Once that
is fixed, that will accommodate more traffic
See PLAN page 3A
by James Peak
Staff Writer
There will always be two
sides to a coin, and though each
side is different in appearance,
the coin will still weigh the
same no matter which way it’s
turned.
The same can be said of a ci-
ty. It can be divided between
east and west, north and south
and still achieve a uniform
balance. But, too often, cities
grow disproportionately to
their boundaries and what was
planned to be a beautiful area of
the city may overshadow
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The lobbyists’ initial efforts
thus far may have already
delivered a severe blow to the
district’s seeking a permit.
Arguments opposing the
plant have centered around the
cost the Wilson Creek Plant
would entail as opposed to the
dollars needed to enlarge the
district’s existing plants in
McKinney and at Rowlett
Creek.
The NTMWD proposal, ac-
cording to lobbyists, not only
entails the coast of transpor-
ting sewage uphill from Plano
and Richardson and from as far
away as 30 miles, but en-
dangers the quality of drinking
water drawn from Lake Lavon.
Lobbyists maintain that pro-
per treatment of sewage to be
dumped into a lake that is
already the subject of concern
the interstate, city planners
said.
Community Development
Director Bill Petty estimates
that more than 2,500 acres west
of the interstate have been an-
nexed by the city.
City Manager Jon McCarty
estimates that 55 percent of
property within the city’s extra
territorial jurisdiction is to the
west of Central Expressway.
Allen straddles the highway
and has amassed a total of
17,000 acres or 28 square miles
of ETJ.
Already, a factory outlet mall
in the area to the west of the
highway is nearing completion
and a land development com-
pany recently entered into a
contract to buy 179 acres
bordering Central Expressway
and FM 2170 for an estimated
$25 million.
What lies in store for the west
side of the city is largely in the
hands of Allen’s planning and
zoning commissioners and city
councilmen; their decisions now
will affect the city’s develop-
See WEST SIDE page 3A
to allow growth,” he said,
“especially businesses. No one
wants one next door. But
business will foot the bills.”
Fisher added that the
Volunteer Fire Department is
the greatest short run challenge
facing Fairview.
He described the fire depart-
ment, with only “three or four
active members” as a “serious
situation.”
“You can give it a shot of
adrenalin every now and then,
but it gradually decays. Having
an effective fire department is
going to be important with
growth,” he said. “This town is
all volunteer and everyone must
carry their load.”
Fisher said his biggest
dissappointment during the
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funds.
A crucial point with her,
however, is maintaining the ci-
ty’s financial integrity.
“It (financial integrity) is ex-
tremely important, especially
based on some of the situations
that have come about in the
past with Nixon.
“The financial end is very im-
portant because you deal with a
lot of government funds coming
from other federal and state
government agencies, coming
from the taxpayers...! feel that
I have a very great responsibili-
ty to make sure those funds are
by James Peak
Staff Writer
A four-point plan to phase in a new
thoroughfare for Allen will be presented
tonight at a meeting between city planners
and the Main Street Study Committee, a
coalition of business and community
leaders.
The plan is the result of several months of
intensive planning between the city and
engineers hired to ‘map out’ the committee’s
suggestions.
Committee Chairman Mike Williams said
most members favor a 4:2 design, two lanes
on Main Street and four lanes on a parallel
route.
But, whatever plan is eventually accepted
by the city council it will have a positive and m
negative impact on property owners in M
Allen, Williams said.
Other members of the committee have
refused to comment for the record because l
of a mutually agreed upon gag order allow- '
ing only Williams to speak for the commit- •
three years ago. Tagged
L.U.C.A.S., Lucas United
Citizens Against Sewage, the
group, is spearheaded by
Strandtman. The Bishop
Citizens Association has joined
L.U.C.A.S. in the fight.
Money'used to finance lobby
efforts has been drawn from the
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A Randy Wright Realty World balloon escapes the depths of pond waters before a recent takeover by the
at Oak Grove Park during last week’s fourth annual Coors Ballon water district was the respon-
Festival. After touching the waterline and dragging the water for 10 feet, sibility of the city.
the hot-air balloon was given an extra shot of hot air to bring it to normal The proposed site extends in-
heights. to Lucas, a community whose
sewage is currently and will in
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said. It is on those grounds that
Lucas city residents stand firm-
ly opposed to the district’s pro-
posed site.
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block construction of a Wilson
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Fairview Mayor Verlin Fisher
has announced his resignation
from office, effective Oct. 1.
Due to professional respon-
sibilities, Fisher is relocating to
Boulder, Colo.
Replacing Fisher will be
mayor pro tem Mark Lane.
Fisher served as mayor for
the past year and a half. Prior
to that, he served three years as
a city councilman.
In a recent interview, Fisher
said he thinks his most signifi-
cant accomplishments as mayor
have been in the Public Works
and Planning and Zoning
departments.
“We (Fairview officials) have
pulled together an effective
Public Works Commission that
has stabilized the water system
and implemented a good, strong
street maintenance program,”
Fisher said.
Fisher said that the P&Z com-
mission “tended to be a
variance granter” in the past,
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Steve Edwards, a Texas
A&M University associate pro-
fessor with a masters degree in
environmental engineering, was
among those from the science
community on hand to testify
at the discharge permit hearing.
It was through his findings
and others, including those of
University of Texas at Dallas
Environmental Science Pro-
fessor Joe Moore and associate
professor Guy Lanza that urged
Paine to reccomend NTMWD’s
request for a 10/15 permit be
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past tour and a half years is
“the lack of a reasonable
number of volunteers to con-
duct the city’s business.”
But the mayor’s outlook for
the city’s future is optomistic.
“Growth will be such that
Fairview will be paying for
more city services and requiring
fewer volunteers. Business will
offset the expense,” he said.
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by Gary Hancock city of Lucas, private donations
Staff Writer and fund-raising efforts. Some
Lucas residents’ many hours 450 donations have been made
and dollars spent in opposition toward the cause, according to
to construction of a sewage Strandtman.
treatment plant on Lake Lavon “Because Lucas has no inten-
resulted Friday in a state tion of ever using this plant, we
recommendation that rigid .intend to go forward with our
limitations be placed on the opposition with whatever steps
plant should it be built. are necessary,” Strandtman
More than 50 days of said.
problems that the city will face
in the next five years.
The overlying issue for the ci-
ty, according to Fisher, is “to
grow in such a way that
(growth) maintains the quality
of life.”
According to Fisher, the city
has two choices. “The city can
control growth by having effec-
tive ordinances that will lead to
a high quality of life, or the city
can ignore growth and try to
keep it from happening.
“If the city does not control
it, growth will come on an un-
controlled basis. We have a
good P&Z and city council that
understand these two choices,”
he said.
One of the challenges that
faces Fairview over the next
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Maier commutes to Allen Maier said.
from far North Dallas, where Maier is also involved in
she and her family have lived several civic organizations. She
for two years after her husband is president of the Prestonwood
was transferred to Dallas. They Homeowners’ Association,
originally are from Chicago, Ill. treasurer of the far North
Maier is a certified public ac- Dallas homeowner’s coalition
countant and received her B.S. and is on a committee to chair
degree in accounting from the the Society For the Prevention
University of Illinois. At one of Blindness.
time she owned and operated a As the city’s new finance
business and for two years director, Maier is responsible
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Garcia, Michela. The Allen American (Allen, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983, newspaper, September 29, 1983; Allen, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1430731/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Allen Public Library.