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0 • 8/30/98 Page 1 of 2 Fellow La Porte Citizens and Taxpayers; On Sept. 14, 1998 at 6:00 PM at the La Porte City Hall; our City Council will vote on a budget that approves funds to start the first phase of a Planned Highway through our our neighborhoods. The new City Planning Director, Doug Kneupper, has clearly stated that the City plans to turn Farrington Blvd. and Lomax School Road into a Four Lane Highway that will run through the Fairmont Park, Glen Meadows, and Lomax neighborhoods to Highway 225 as part of a "Comprehensive Plan" put together by City bureaucrats. This Highway through our Residential Zoned neighborhoods is intended to be like Underwood Road except that it will have a raised median in the center instead of a left turn lane. • The City will spend app. $321,000 +? Land $$ of our tax money to connect Farrington Blvd. to Lomax School Road as the first phase of putting this Highway, through our neighborhoods. • This proposed Highway will run through 2 school zones and 3 city park areas. We believe this Highway through our neighborhoods will: 1. Endanger us and our children as we travel to and from schools, parks, and other places in our neighborhoods. 2. Endanger us as we enter and leave our driveways, park trailers, or travel to and from the Rodeo arena, Parks, Ball fields, and Schools. 3. Greatly decrease the value of our homes and our property. 4. Greatly decrease our over all quality of neighborhood life. Apparently the bureaucrats have forgotten that our neighborhoods are Zoned Residential. 5. Destroy our neighborhoods with increased speeding traffic, noise, crime, littering, and air pollution. 6. Unfairly decrease our quality of life and property values in order to increase the property values of special interest land developers South of us. The excuse our bureaucrats use to install this first phase of the Highway through our neighborhoods and front yards, is the desire of La Porte I.S.D. to have a shorter bus route for Lomax Elementary students that have previously attended Rizzuto Elementary. Yet, L.P.I.S.D. Superintendent John Sawyer says the last time L.P.I.S.D. asked for the road was about 3 years ago. Mr. Sawyer was unaware that the first phase road was being considered. The logical answer to the school overcrowding problem is to use the $321,000 to build new class rooms at Rizzuto rather than destroy our existing neighborhoods with an unwanted Highway. With a new school planned for the area and changing school population, there is a good probability that in the near future the road will not be necessary for school travel, but we will still have to live with it's destruction of our neighborhoods. (More info on the back)