Dear Diary

What to do today.

1.-Decided that there needs to be a flyer for the Park & Rec wellness promoting volunteering. Not only good exercise, stress relief, learning, friendship, community support.

2.-Conversation meeting tonite about Tom Hank's movie about Mr. Fred Rogers - It's a Wonderful Day.

3.-Need to read, environmental books. Focus on urban nature. Johnson Creek? Attended meeting about storm runoff and move to eliminate flooding. Arlington has to work with Army Corp of Engineers when it involves a stream. Inverness residents most in attendance since their flooding is not from a city property, but a pond on their private property.  (City Councilman Andy Piel told how his sister moved out because Arlington looked old with all the 60's-70's ranch style homes. She moved to new suburb: Colleyville, Grapevine.  I think this is a Republican base who were upset that home owners were responsible and they couldn't get local business to pay for storm runoff-)

4.-Old Post Office. Outline for book. Preserving the old. Saving downtowns.

5.- Presentation from Italian housing developer

builder P to build rent controlled apartments. Arlington has resisted thinking it will bring unwanted residents. They liked restricting families to apartments build in north Arlington, then law forced them to take families and the result has been too many kids flooding a school district and ruining living conditions because there were too many apartments build too close together. WeCan  West Citizen Action Network. meet four times a year. wecanarlington.org
https://www.andrewpielforarlington.com/