This just in: Democracy actually works if you let it. And that's why the Dallas Park Board shot down the deal last week with the private rowing club that wanted to build a clubhouse in a city park.
The demise of the Dallas United Crew floating clubhouse on White Rock Lake was not, as most of the news coverage painted it, out and out class warfare. It was only maybe partial class warfare.
For newcomers: The classes involved here would be the people of the city Of Dallas versus the people of Highland Park and University Park, two adjacent enclave communities commonly called collectively, "The Park Cities," where residents tend to be more affluent than typical city people.
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There is also a certain high volatility factor about White Rock Lake, a thing that is not to be denied or foolishly ignored. A constellation of watchful community groups and activists keeps tight watch over everything that happens at the lake and anything that comes near it. They include, for example, the White Rock Lake Task Force, one of whose members is Dallas Plan Commission member Michael Jung, an attorney at Strasburger & Price LLC who happens to be one of the sharpest infrastructure and land use lawyers in Texas.
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