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October 14, 2024: Despite a City plan to redevelop the area it has rebranded as Richardson IQ and claims is "Texas' premier tech hub" (not just North Texas, mind you, but Texas as a whole) and "our living laboratory for big ideas and groundbreaking technology," Mayor Bob Dubey's own big idea is to put a salvage car dealership there. Salvage cars are cars that have been totalled and repaired. With Dubey's approval, that's what will be the first thing companies see when they come to Richardson to explore whether the IQ is a good place to relocate their business.
The Richardson Way: Plan the Work, Work the Plan.
The Dubey Way: Plan the Work, Wreck the Plan.
So let me get this straight: in the middle of Richardson’s so-called Innovation Quarter, our “premier tech hub”, Mayor Dubey votes to greenlight a salvage car lot? That’s not vision, that’s a punchline. We went from high tech to high wreck in one council meeting.
ReplyDeleteRichardson deserves better than low IQ planning wrapped in high IQ branding. This isn’t just a zoning blunder, it’s a symptom of a deeper problem at City Hall: flashy slogans, no substance, and zero accountability.
I’m running as the anti-corruption outsider to bring a real C.U.R.E. Clean Up Richardson Ethics, so our policies match our potential. Let’s fix the logic circuit before we end up with more wreckage than results.