Friday, May. 16, 2008
HV Council Gives Final OK to School Zone Cell Phone Ban
By Stephanie A. Miller
Staff Writer
Costa presented the first "Mayor’s Citizen Award" to Stacey and Doug Campbell who founded Greater Lewisville Cares (GLC) in 2004. Stacey Campbell has served as president and under her leadership, GLC has initiated programs such as the construction of wheelchair ramps, Serving Seniors to assist seniors with their independence, a scholarship for high school seniors to provide funds for college books and housing and flexible volunteer hours.
The City Council approved, with a few provisos, a re-designed site plan for the Chicken Express to be located in Celebration Village, 2450 Justin Road (FM 407), which will have an outdoor patio and access to Unity Park. Mayor Dianne Costa thought the project was impressive.
"The message we’ve tried to get across to development in Highland Village is that you need to 'be’ us ... to look like us, feel like us," Costa said after the meeting. "And actually I think that they would probably all agree in retrospect that it brings their store to a better look, a higher quality and maybe a new prototype for their new stores." An October opening is anticipated.
The City Council also approved the second and final reading of an ordinance, fashioned after Flower Mound, prohibiting the use of hand-held mobile devices in active school zones. It restricts the use of hand-held devices in vehicles "to engage in a call or create, send or read messages" on school days during active school zones.
Captain Mark Stewart of the Highland Village Police Department said school zone signs will be ordered and installed, and a public education campaign will take place this summer. The ordinance becomes effective in August at the beginning of the upcoming school year.
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