The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1985 Page: 1 of 8
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Official Newspaper for the City of The Colony and the City of Little Elm
Phone [214] 292-1570
OCTOBER 31,1985
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The City Council approved an ordinance a few weeks ago
restricting Garage Sale signs to yards and prohibiting
South of Highway 121
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“We are not trying to
outlaw anything. Just con-
trol it,” Councilman Rick
Harris said.
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council took up an ordin-
ance dealing with home
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A basic course in pho-
tography will be offered
at Griffin Middle School
at 7 p.m. for one hour on
Mondays beginning Nov. 4
at Griffin Middle School.
The course will be taught
by George Gillett, editor of
The Colony - Voice and a
professional photographer.
Fee is $16 in the Lewis-
ville Independent School
District Community Educa-
tion program.
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months.
Two annexation public
hearings will be held Nov.
18, one on the site and the
other at City Hall.
The property is presently
zoned Agricultural. A pub-
lic hearing will be held Nov.
18 on rezoning it Planned
Development.
Early in September the
City Council approved an-
nexation of 589 acres south
of Highway 121 at the re-
quest of Henry Billings-
ley. It was rezoned Plan-
ned Development.
Back to the Frisco dis-
pute. It began in 1982.
Frisco won rounds in state
District Court and the Ap-
peals court, and then Sam-
ple got word Oct. 21 that
the Texas Supreme Court
refused to hear the Col-
ony’s appeal. He told the
council Monday that the
timing of the Supreme
Court’s action was unfor-
The City Council held a
public hearing Monday on
an ordinance regulating
satellite and radio receivers
and transmitters.
Then it set up a commit-
tee of residents and coun-
cil members to study the
matter.
There were several out-
of-town satellite dealers in
the audience who objected
to proposed restrictions on
height and size of dishes.
“I would like to hear
from citizens who live here
rather than vendors from
outside the Colony,” Coun-
cilman Rick Harris said.
Gillett will show how to
operate a camera. Instruc-
tion will include camera
accessories, lighting and
composition. Students
should bring cameras and
film. The LISD said pre-
registration is required.
Denton County bonds
to be on Nov 5 ballot
tunate because for a month
he and Mayor Clanton had
been negotiating a settle-
ment of the dispute.
Sample said the talks
with Clanton had been
fruitful and would continue.
He said the basis for agree-
was for several years. Art and Jean
Gibson, owners, moved G&M to Highway
423 in Eastvale to better serve residents
with furnace and hot water heater prob-
lems. Mary and I have known Art and Jean
several years.
The Courier received notice Oct. 17 that
it had been evicted and had 30 days to
move. That was because the Little Elm
Post Office was expanding its space, and
another office needed to move...kind of a
domino theory, I guess.
So, instead of moving a couple of doors
down, Mary and I decided to move to
Colony Square, a decision that should have
been made several years ago.
Better late than never.
At last, the Colony truly has its own
newspaper: The Colony Courier.
The Courier and its predecessor covered
Colony news 11 years from an office nine
miles north in Little Elm before making the
move. The Courier has had a branch office
in the Colony as a competitor has had, but
before Nov. 17 the Courier will have its
office in Colony Square Shopping Center.
So will its sister newspaper, The Colony
Voice, a free shopper published monthly.
Colony readers will find that the Courier
will continue to print the most Colony news
front page to back year after year. It also
will continue to back expansion of business
and clean industry in the area as in the
past.
The Courier will move into 1,000 square
feet of office space where G&M Appliances
put at $100.
Theft-A bicycle was sto-
len from a home in the
5000 block of Shannon
Drive the night of Oct. 26.
Loss was put at $20.
Theft-A driver pumped
$10 worth .of gasoline at
the Stop N Go market
at 4916 Main Street Oct.
25 and drove away without
paying.
annexation by the Colony
of the B. B. Owens tract.
This will include the tracts
owned by the Colony and
the Lewisville Independent
School District.
“This will permit the ele-
mentary school to be built
without delay. Other parts
of the negotiations will be
forthcoming. I wish to
thank Mayor Clanton and
the Frisco City Council for
this gesture of good faith
and look forward to an
era of progress between
our two cities.”
was “hammered
Sample said, “in
agreement will be
Here’s where Colony vot-
ers will make their de-
cisions on bond propos-
als. Those in Precinct
2B at Colony Park Baptist
Church, in Precinct 2C at
Carney Elementary School,
in 2D at First Baptist
Church, and Precinct 2N at
Peters Colony Elementary
School.
county expense to provide
more services to the boom-
ing southern part of the
county, in particular a
county annex in the Colony
sought by Jacobs, but short
on county funding.
Theft—Colony police said
a girl’s bike valued at
$350 was stolen from the
yard of a home in the
4900 block of Crawford
Drive the night of Oct.
26.
Criminal Mischief-Some
one using a pellet gun put
two holes in the window
of a school bus at Griffin
Middle School the night
of Oct. 26. Damage put
at $100.
Criminal Mischief-Some
one shattered a patio glass
door apparently with a
slingshot at a home in the
5000 block of Ashlock Drive
Oct. 27. Damage esti-
mated at $300.
Criminal Mischief-Some
one put two long scratches
in the paint of a car parked
in the 5000 block of Bartlett
Drive the night of Oct. 25.
Loss put at $400.
Criminal Mischief-Some
one dented a door and
ruined a wheel of a car
parked in the 4700 block
of Blair Oaks Road Oct.
27. Damage was $200.
Criminal Mischief-Some
one broke the rear wind-
shield of a car parked in
the 4800 block of Branden-
burg Lane the night of Oct.
25. Loss put at $300.
Criminal Mischief-Some
one broke a window in
a car parked in the 5600
block of Turner Street the
night of Oct. 26. Loss
$19,360,000 would be de-
cided by county voters.
Three of the projects in-
volved projects in Denton,
in the northern part of the
county, and only one,
Proposition 4, for $1.5
million was in southern
Carroll said the ordinance
is enforced only on a com-
plaint basis. She added
that residents have re-
course to the mayor and
council.
Eric Stanton, city build-
ing official, said the revis-
ion doesn’t change any-
thing, only clarifies.
In another matter, the
council held a public hear-
ing and then amended an
ordinance adding multiple
family-3 and multiple fam-
ily-4 zoning districts.
Sample said during the
discussion that the council
couldn’t eliminate apart-
ments or mobile homes
from the zoning code be-
cause of state laws.
The council also decided
to add three street lights at
Carr-Chapman Park.
It also delayed annexing
a 500-foot wide strip and
running one mile north
one-half mile west of High-
way423 north of Boyd Road
on Wynnwood Peninsula
and extending onto Hack-
berry Peninsula.
Republican President
Ronald Reagan won’t be
seeking re-election Nov. 5.
Neither will Democrats
Fritz Mondale or Jimmy
Carter be opposing him.
However, there will be
an off-year General Elect-
ion Nov. 5. The issues
will include revisions in
the Texas Constitution and
Denton County general ob-
ligation tax bonds. There
will be four bond issues
on the ballot, and Mayor
Larry Sample had a few
words to say about them
Monday at the Colony City
Council meeting.
He observed that four
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The course is in cooper-
ation with the Colony
Parks and Recreation De-
partment.
Pet or Tracy
4641 wheeler Dr. box, 9 1712
Lewisville , Tx. 75058
Steven DeStout, a Colony
dealer, wrote a Letter to
the Editor last week that
appeared in the Courier
urging a large turnout for
the hearing. He said
restrictions in the ordin-
ance would provide for
inadequate dishes. He
urged a 10 or 12-foot dish.
“We are just seeking a
reasonable ordinance,”
Mayor Larry Sample said.
There was an emergency
item on the City Council
agenda Monday night: It
was to call two public
hearings on the annexation
of 127 acres south of the
Colony.
At the same time, Mayor
Larry Sample said that he
was negotiating with Frisco
Mayor John Ganton to
settle an annexation dis-
pute north of the city.
The request to annex the
127 acres south of the city
came from James O.
White, trustee for the ac-
reage. It is south of
Highway 121 bounded on
the west by the Burlington
Northern Railroad tracks
and on the east by Frito-
Lay property. The 127
acres also was sought by
Plano, Sample said.
The mayor said City
Manager Janice Carroll had
been working on the volun-
tary annexation for six
Denton County. That was
for improvements and re-
pairs to the existing county
office building in Lewis-
ville.
The other three are Pro-
position 1 for construction
of a new courts building
in Denton costing $11.7
million, Proposition 2 for
improvements and restora-
tion of the historic Coun-
ty Courthouse on the
Square in Denton, and
$3,160,000 for reconstruct-
ing, remodeling and equip-
ping the present county
office buildings ’in Den-
ton, including the Old
Southern Hotel Building.
Sandy Jacobs, Denton
County commissioner, Pre-
cinct 2, said approval of
all bonds would bring a
property tax bpost of
$0.0169 per $100 of actu-
al value over the next two
years.
Sample has urged more
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The ordinance change
defined home occupations.
“A home occupation is an
occupation carried out in
the home by a member
of the occupant’s family,
without the employment of
additional persons, without
the use of a sign to adver-
tise the occupation, with-
out offering any commodity
for sale on the premises...”
the ordinance says. It also
specifically excludes some
occupations such as repair
shops, garages, antique
shops and beauty shops.
Councilman Marlene
Poole said if there have
been no complaints, “Why
fix somethings that’s not
broken?”
City Manager Janice
In Little Elm, Precinct
2Y voters will make de-
cisions on 14 state con-
stitutional amendments at
the Southwestern Bell
Work Center on Witt Road,
and those in 2M at the
Little Elm Community
Center.
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Blalock, Jack. The Colony Courier (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 31, 1985, newspaper, October 31, 1985; Little Elm, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1520208/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Colony Public Library.