2/16/07 - Alcohol Free Zones
Edgemont Park Community Club
Mesquite, Texas 75149
laurabeth@edgemontpark5.com
Hello my name is Laura Hammons and I live in Edgemont Park in Mesquite, Texas. Our community lies within Balch Springs boundaries (across the street from the Super Wal-Mart there are 850 homes in Mesquite) and we are experiencing a change in our quality of life! Not even a year has passed from the election and Edgemont Park #5 Community Club is determined to fight against a drive-thru beer store within 876 feet of our beloved McWhorter Elementary School, McWhorter Park, and our Edgemont Park residential community. The proposed store is located at the intersection of Bruton and Hickory Tree. It is an undeveloped tract of land and we stand firm on doing everything we can from allowing this change to occur.
This is a letter in the hopes that you might support an ordinance change in the City of Balch Springs. In order to protect Mesquite Independent School Districts; I am asking you to protect our children from beer stores. Currently, the city ordinance is set at the minimum that is in accordance to current state laws. (three-hundred feet)
Please support 1000 feet, "Alcohol Free Zones", for all Mesquite schools in Balch Springs. Your support for this is crucial due to the current school consolidation process. Balch Springs can change their own ordinance! Since the city of Mesquite is not over 900,000; the MISD can not protest the TABC beer permit, but our city will!
Please ask your current candidates Cedric W. Davis Sr, Ed Grant, Rita Burks, Donna Taulbee, Barbara A. Mangham Frankie Harris, Karen E. Gray and Lana Shulz about this matter. Ask them how they plan on taking strides to protect our homes, MISD schools, and daycare centers from beer and wine stores.
Laura Beth Hammons