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Building a path for cyclists

February 24, 2012
24 Feb 2012
by Emily Toman
Preston Hollow Advocate
Lee Kleinman, park board member and neighborhood resident, believes the Bike Plan is a necessary expense to increase our quality of life. Photo by Danny Fulgencio

Lee Kleinman, park board member. Photo by Danny Fulgencio

 

“I think we need to erode that fortress mentality. Bike lanes and bike trails do some of that,” says Lee Kleinman, North Dallas’ District 11 Park Board member who also sat on the steering committee for the Bike Plan. “I think people are frustrated in this urban sprawl that we live in — that you have to get in a car to go to the grocery store. People are starting to look closer in, more local.”

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Griggs and Hunt: Why Weren’t We Told Bike Plan Would Be Hard, Expensive to Carry Out?

December 12, 2011
Bike Lane

Bike Lane

By Leslie Minora

Mon., Dec. 12 2011 at 2:02 PM
Dallas Observer

“After the meeting, Kleinman told Unfair Park he couldn’t understand why there were suddenly so many obstacles. “Why are we not getting a ‘we can do this’ approach?” he asked. He speculated that since this plan is less glamorous and more practical than things like the Calatrava Bridge and the Trinity plan, perhaps it’s more easily overlooked.”

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Park and Recreation among departments that could be hit hard by Dallas budget cuts

February 17, 2011
By STEVE THOMPSON
The Dallas Morning News
Published: 17 February 2011 11:27 PM

“Some Park Board members even talked Thursday about possibly shuttering all the centers.

“Maybe we just shouldn’t be operating our recreation centers anymore,” said board member Lee Kleinman. “I’d rather see us have decent parks where at least they’re always open and people can always use them.”

Board vice president Joan Walne agreed.”

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Dallas leaders tout capital projects amid rising debt

September 21, 2010
By STEVE THOMPSON
The Dallas Morning News
Published: 21 September 2010 12:55 PM

“But as the city fights to maintain the facilities it has, some have questioned whether the time is right to buy more.

“At a time when we are under a lot of budget constraints and a lot of concerns, I just want to make sure we are being prudent,” said Park and Recreation Board member Lee Kleinman last week. He and the other board members were asked to approve $13 million in construction at the Woodall Rodgers deck park.

“This stuff just seems to fly right past the Park Board and the council” without much discussion, Kleinman said. In the end, he and the rest of the board voted unanimously for the deck park’s construction. But Kleinman’s concern has been voiced by many.”
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New leader of Dallas Park Board is changing landscape of system

September 7, 2010
By STEVE THOMPSON
The Dallas Morning News
Published: 07 September 2010 06:46 AM
“Board member Lee Kleinman said he was a little taken aback at first.’I was kind of like, OK, so here we are getting directed as to how much time we have or don’t have,’ Kleinman said. ‘But then, when he actually ran the session that way, everybody seemed like they had plenty of time to say what they needed to say.

‘I was a little surprised,” Kleinman added. ‘But that actually worked pretty well.'”

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Dallas rec centers won’t have to cut their hours as much as expected, thanks to landfill earnings

August 20, 2010
By STEVE THOMPSON
The Dallas Morning News
Published: 20 August 2010 06:48 AM
“Park officials have said that under a once-per-month mowing cycle, weeds could grow 18 inches high.”While we’re hearing a lot about particularly rec centers and pools, those serve very niche groups,” board member Lee Kleinman said. “We do own 22,000 acres of park land that needs to be maintained. And there are far more people that are in those parks on a day-in and day-out basis than are in our rec centers.”

Kleinman said city officials need to consider making bigger cuts to other departments, even police, to help spare the Park Department from cutting what could amount a third of its budget in two years.”
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Park and Rec Board Wants You to Attend First-Ever “Dallas Parks Stakeholders’ Summit”

August 19, 2010

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Dallas Observer
By Robert Wilonsky
Thu., Aug. 19 2010 at 10:07 AM
“Board member and summit organizer Lee Kleinman makes it clear in this morning’s announcement that the event’s tied to forthcoming Park and Rec budget cuts that “will have an obvious visual and functional impact on parks,” per the City Hall summary. “We want citizens to speak in support of increased parks and recreation funding,” Kleinman says, “and make their elected officials, friends and neighbors aware of the critical need to invest in urban parks and recreation programs.” Also: Can you spare a lawn mower?”
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Don’t Worry Bout the Pizza. You’ll Ride it Off When the Trail’s Built

June 9, 2010
Lee Kleinman on the Future Alignment of the Northaven Trail

Lee Kleinman on the Future Alignment of the Northaven Trail

by Eric Nicholson
Dallas Observer
June 9, 2010
Back in the day (e.g. Feb. 17) I wrote in the print product about the formation of the Friends of the Northaven Trail to support the yet-to-be-built concrete pathway that will stretch, after the first phase of construction is complete, from Preston Road east to Central Expressway, where there are hopes that it will be linked to the White Rock Trail on the other side of the freeway. Construction is slated to begin sometime after bonds approved in the 2006 bond election are sold in March 2011 and will probably wrap up at the end of that year.

Even further back in the day (Jan. 22), I wrote about the much-touted Il Cane Rosso, Naples-trained pizza maestro Jay Jerrier’s mobile pizzaria, settling down (sort of–for now, it’s just on weekend nights) at Chocolate Angel Too at Preston and Forest. (more…)

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