We're your neighbors in Westworth Village. We read the agendas, file the records requests, and show up to the meetings, so decisions about our town get made in front of us, not behind closed doors.
What's happening right now: Trinity Terrace filed a new application on October 1 to rezone the 27.73-acre Kite Farm, the village's biggest remaining tract, for a $350 million development. The village rejected the last attempt in 2023. The hearings are November 3 (P&Z) and November 10 (council), and if you own land within 200 feet, your written protest can raise the bar to a supermajority.
How we got here: Since May's election, decided by margins as thin as 2 votes: the mayor's evidence got a dissenting councilman arrested over pastries (the DA reportedly passed), the council voted city money for a colleague's legal fees in a lawsuit the city isn't even a party to, and six of seven Planning & Zoning seats, the body that takes the first vote on every rezoning, changed hands in a single month with no cause ever stated. Records pried loose through the Attorney General keep contradicting the official story.
What you can do: File a protest if you're eligible, show up November 3 and November 10 either way, get email updates, put a sign in your yard, and check any claim against the documents. Everything here is labeled: facts carry documents, opinions say they're ours.
Three council seats were on the ballot; the closest was decided by 2 votes and is now in court. That same day, pastry boxes carrying campaign flyers landed on doorsteps. The election.
By the mayor's own account, he took resident reports, personally followed Council Member Griffith to collect evidence, and handed it to police. Griffith was arrested for felony bribery; the DA reportedly declined the case. Pastry Gate.
The council voted 3 to 2, mayor deciding, to reimburse Fitzgerald's legal fees in the election contest. The city is not a party to that lawsuit. Misuse of public funds.
The city signed with a Fort Worth law firm for the election contest. The letter names the city as the client and the only party that pays, and also names Councilman Fitzgerald as a jointly represented client. Residents wouldn't see it for three months. Who the lawyer actually represents.
A motion to leave the boards alone failed 2 to 3; the removals then passed 3 to 2, no cause stated. Six of seven seats changed hands in a month. Our notes.
A formal demand, joined by all three removed commissioners, asked the council to rescind the removals as an Open Meetings Act violation. That evening the reconstituted commission met anyway and advanced its first rezoning. Planning & Zoning.
Two complaints pried loose the legal opinion behind the fees vote (written three weeks after the vote) and the "PILOT agreement" (an unsigned 2023 draft). Both contradict the official story. Read them.
Seven days after its first public hearing, the rebuilt commission's first recommendation became law: single-family to gated development, 5 to 0. Nothing on the agenda answered the demand letter. Our notes.
The city kept withholding its legal-fees records, then blew the deadlines for justifying it. The AG ruled it had "no choice but to order the requested information released." A week later, the engagement letter came out. The records fights.
A new application to rezone the Kite Farm, three and a half years after the last one was voted down and withdrawn, and ten weeks after the commission that will hear it was rebuilt. Hearings: November 3 and November 10. The project, and how to protest.
A records request for the payment records: what has actually been paid under the engagement letter, to whom, and whether Fitzgerald has reimbursed a cent. The city's deadline to respond is October 21. Document three.
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Applicant's community meeting on the Kite Farm project. The developer's own promotional event at a city facility, per the mailer. Not a city hearing; nothing said there is part of the zoning record.
Regular council meeting. Council Chambers, 311 Burton Hill Road.
The first vote on the new application. File your protest before this hearing.
The final vote. Protests are accepted until the mayor closes this public hearing, per the city's written position.
All city meetings: Council Chambers, Municipal Complex, 311 Burton Hill Road. Citizen comments are near the start. You don't have to speak; a full room speaks for itself.
And a word about quiet meetings: the pattern here is that the big moves happen at the meetings nobody attends, after a dull agenda has thinned the room. Showing up on the boring nights is how there stop being surprises on the loud ones.