Richardson Homeowners Worry About School District's Plan For Vacant Lot
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RICHARDSON (CBSDFW.COM) - Noise, traffic, health problems. They are all fears Richardson homeowners have about the school district's plan to develop a vacant lot.
Homeowners in two neighborhoods want input into the school district's operations center that nearby residents worry will eventually be a noisy, polluting school bus barn.
Concerned residents packed an elementary school to see diagrams and hear officials promise that the 14 acre building will be secluded with 10 foot high walls.
The district said the facility will refuel only 53 buses each day, down from the more than double residents speculated.
"The vast majority of the traffic is going to be coming through the Greenville Avenue entrance not on Abrams Road where the community across the street resides," says Tim Clark, RISD Spokesman.
No homeowner lives closer to the proposed facility than Quinton Milton who would rather see a school built on the land.
"Their entire attitude about all this is we're just going to do it it doesn't matter what you think," said Milton.
The school district said the likely alternative to the operations center would be apartments, which they say homeowners would probably oppose also.
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