![]() PD15 is a zoning document, not a developer's plan. There have been task forces and town halls and area plans. Laura Miller even came out of political retirement to run against development, only to get run over at the polls. Next week's vote, if not deferred, comes four years after residents began fighting development along Preston Road and Northwest Highway - shrinking or scuttling altogether proposals for the 27-story Highland House, the Laurel apartment complex, the sky bridge and parking garage in Preston Center. The red is as high as some residents say they're willing to go. This Lego model of PD15 was on display at Monday's block party/protest. I mean, you must admit, that's a lot of no, people. It read "STOP OVER-DEVELOPMENT!" with a red "no" circle stamped over a sketch of the downtown skyline. Two smaller signs stapled to a wooden stake were planted in the front garden apartment's yard. "NO MORE TOWERS!!" said one the other, "HELP SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD FROM DENSE URBANIZATION." Throughout the neighborhood, plenty of yards are decorated with "No More Towers In Preston Center, Fix the Traffic First" signs. I walked up Monday morning to a giant banner draped over the exterior of the Gas Light Manor on Bandera Avenue. And by their increasingly anxious neighbors who actually do want tall towers and public parks weaved into an aging neighborhood still traumatized by the fire that claimed the Preston Place complex and one of its residents in the spring of 2017. And by developers ready to build new things behind the falling-down pinkish wall. Mischaracterized, they say, by staffers and officials at City Hall, where in June the plan commission endorsed adding more density to that slice of Preston Hollow.
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