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Mayor shares “State of the City” at chamber luncheon
By Katy Moore, Staff Writer
The future of the DART rail service in Carrollton and discussion about the city’s future in transit oriented development were top priorities at the Metrocrest Chamber of Commerce luncheon Feb. 28.
The mayors of Farmers Branch, Addison and Carrollton spoke on how their cities have functioned as a unit. Carrollton Mayor Becky Miller said the city residents will see in the next few years may be a completely “different Carrollton,” pointing to an increase in high-density housing and, of course, the city’s future as a transit hub.
Miller and others in Carrollton have touted the city’s future as a the fourth major transportation center in the Metroplex, joining downtown Dallas, downtown Fort Worth and the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in this important to transportation in the Metroplex.
“Transit oriented development is going to be a focus and working with development around rail stations,” Miller said in an interview. “We’ll look very different than the city has looked in the past.”
Miller joined Farmers Branch Mayor Bob Phelps and Addison Mayor Joe Chow at the chamber luncheon where the mayors met to present their State of the City reports.
Miller noted that crime and accident rates are down and that the city made national news with several distinctions over the past year.
Carrollton was named one of America’s 100 Best Places to Live by CNN Money Magazine and by Relocate America. The city also received an award for being one of the country’s “most digital cities.”
Miller said Carrollton has the lowest overall crime rate of any city in the Metroplex with populations of more than 100,000 people. The crime rate was down 8.6 percent, and vehicle accidents fell by 27 percent during the past two years.
Miller also touted a 23 percent increase in new development investments and increases in property values in every planning district in the past year as evidence of the city’s progress.
Miller said the city hopes to revitalize older sections of the city in the coming year and pointed to transit oriented development as one of the keys to improve the city’s economic face. She expects that development could add as much as $1 million to the city’s tax base in the years to come.
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