20-POINT PLAN
Quality of Life (4 points)
- Motels, Illegal Bars, and Unlicensed Strip Clubs
- We will seek to close all illegal hot-sheet motels, nuisance bars, and illegal strip clubs in District 4
- A fund will be established for neighborhoods to utilize the Board of Adjustment process to close unwanted uses (motels, clubs, etc)
- Dangerous Stray Dogs
- Reduction in pit bulls and other strays via increased animal control resources
- Owners must register dangerous breeds with the City, and purchase liability insurance for each dangerous dog that they own
- Dangerous dogs must be tagged and muzzled when on City streets.
- “Terrible Twenty” Program
- Working with neighborhood groups, I will identify the twenty most run-down houses (highest and oldest citations, etc) and fast-track their demolition
- These lots will then be available for community groups to maintain gardens/open space or to resell for permanent housing.
- Funded within City budget and then with revolving funds from sales.
- "Take Back Our Community" Program
- Improve quality of sidewalks, curbs, and streets
- Work with power companies to fix broken streetlights
- Reduce negative advertising – cigarette ads, gun shows
- Improve maintenance of parks and recreation facilities
- More wheelchair ramps
- Drug houses will be seized and fast-tracked for demolition and/or sale
- Establish grant writing internships, so neighborhood groups can raise more money for community improvement
- Increased fines and enforcement to curb illegal dumping and 18-wheeler parking on City streets
- Expand the “lot beautification” ordinance to shopping centers and parking lots across District 4 and the City of Dallas
- Parking lot owners are required to keep lots properly paved and landscaped.
