What's up with Council?

Looks like there are any number of topics for the people of Irving to talk to the council about, so I hope that you will attend the meeting tomorrow night. Here are a few:
Last council meeting they decided that 400 homeowners in Hackberry didn't have enough sense to understand the apartment complex they were petitioning against and voted to allow it. Turns out that the contractor told them one thing, then did another. That IS hard to comprehend - particularly for lawyers, doctors, pilots, ceo's, cfo's, etc. Maybe they should get an Ivy League fast track degree like the mayor did - I understand you can do it in just 2 weeks, after which you can say you graduated from Yale.
They had the Four Seasons project on the agenda to vote "For" or "Against" their development that the homeowners were complaining about and which would have further run their property values down, but we were able to make it political, and the Four Seasons decided to negotiate, and it was pulled from the agenda. I understand that they have made a satisfactory compromise or at least with 80% of the Fairway Vista folks.
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