Housing redevelopment along White Rock Trail: never ending surprises

I have been wondering why, for the longest time, that the newly poured slab at the corner of White Rock Trail and Deer Trail had sat there, empty, for weeks and weeks.  Well, it turns out there was a dispute between the builder, Elizabeth Newman Custom Homes, and the authorities in charge of the power lines which run down that side of White Rock Trail on poles. The two story home would have been way to close to the lines at the second level, and rights-of-way and encroachment to the property line were the issues. I'm not sure if said authorites are the City, Oncor, or a combination of them and cable and telephone. Whatever...

Now I'm hearing that the dispute has been resolved and the lines are going to be buried in the ditch along that stretch. Since the ditch is also the main rainwater floodway for all the water that courses through here when it pours rain, it will be interesting to see how deep they have to bury the lines for power, cable, etc.  It will also be interesting to see how they accomodate traffic while they do it.  And finally, I wonder what it will be like having the back end of your new home so very close (~2-3 feet) to a drainage ditch that becomes a mini-river every time it rains hard around here?

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Comments

[Clay]

so has Elizabeth Newman Custom Homes settled their lawsuits with the homowners who permit water to drain down to Deer Trail(not that gravity or building massive homes on the downslope of a hill had anything to do with it)? Just wonder, but these people are something else.

[Bill Kennedy]

I'm not sure that I follow you here, Clay. Are you referring to the ENCH homes built over the past 2 year on the north side of Deer -- a little farther down Deer from that same corner? Where they all have rain-drains exiting into the "concrete ditch" that was poured along the front of Deer, so it pools up into a mess of leaves and muck by the alleyway at the end?

[Jonathan Elifson]

That is an amazing map...can one access that on google maps for most addresses?

[Bill Kennedy]

Yes, Jonathan. Most every address in Dallas proper and it's moving outward.

When you bring up Google maps for an address, click on the 'Streetview' box in the top right, next to 'satellite' etc. That will highlight all roads (that have streetview) in blue and it will place a little man-figure on the map. Click-hold on the man and drag 'n' drop him at the street location you want -- you will see a little X below his feet for exact positioning. Le voila! Hit 'full-page' in the streetview pic to get a bigger pic.

All our streets were shot here last spring, as I can see myself on the back porch doing some work that occurred then. The bulk trash is in the ditch so it was the last week of the month. You can see both sides of a corner house, for example. Just close the picture and move the man again.

[Jonathan]

Thanks for the info on the maps--good to know. I wonder when they'll get back on track for the house you mentioned--looks like they're almost done with the one next to it.