The Northline, Issue #011

Good morning, neighbors! 🎃 It's Thursday, and this weekend is packed with free things to do along the line. Grab a coffee and let’s dive in.

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In this Northline Issue…

🏘️ Keller Says No to Samantha Springs, Yes to Providence

🎃 Four Free Festivals This Weekend

📍 Worth Discovering: Bob Jones Nature Center & Preserve

📅 Plus: 50+ Local Events, Weather & More

🌦️ The Forecast

Google weather forecast for Southlake, TX with Thursday, October 22 selected: sunny, high 81°F, low 53°F

Ozone Action Day Thursday: The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has declared an Ozone Action Day for Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, and NWS Fort Worth has an Air Quality Alert out for our area. Conditions favor high ozone levels, so it's a good day to share a ride, pack your lunch or skip the drive-through line.

📰 The Local Rundown

🏘️ Keller Says No to Samantha Springs, Yes to Providence

Keller City Council has made its call on both of the neighborhood proposals we previewed Tuesday. At its Oct. 20 meeting, the council voted 6-1 to deny the zoning change for Samantha Springs Commerce, a 15.63-acre redevelopment at 800 N. Main St. that would have paired 31 brownstone homes with about 8.19 acres of commercial space. Mayor Ross McMullin cast the lone vote against the denial, and the council also turned down the related change to the city's Future Land Use Plan.

Providence got the go-ahead. The council approved the land-use plan change for the 20.93 acres Keller ISD owns at 901 Johnson Road, then passed the rezoning with an amendment, according to the city's meeting record. The record doesn't say yet what the amendment changed. As proposed, Providence is a gated neighborhood of 22 homes on lots of at least 28,000 square feet, with a single private entrance off Johnson Road.

One more change from the same night: the council updated the city's skateboard and e-bike rules so the city can ban skateboards, e-bikes and similar devices in areas where special events are held, with signs posted where needed. Keller's other e-bike rules, including the 15 mph speed limit, stay as they were.

Review the Oct. 20 Keller City Council meeting →

🎃 Four Free Festivals This Weekend

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If you've been waiting for the right weekend to get out, this is it. Four free community festivals land along the line between Friday night and Saturday evening, and three of them are on Saturday:

  • Pumpkin Point, Friday, 5:30-8 PM: T. Oscar Trevino Municipal Center Plaza, 4301 City Point Dr., North Richland Hills. Come in costume for the parade, then find crafts, carnival-style games, music, stage entertainment, fall photo scenes and a hayride shuttle. Admission is free, and food vendors will be selling dinner.

  • Nash Farm Fall Round-Up, Saturday, 10 AM-2 PM: Historic Nash Farm, 626 Ball St., Grapevine. The 26th year of traditional farm-skill demonstrations and heritage crafts, celebrating fall the 19th-century way. Concession sales benefit the farm's education programs. Park at Cannon Elementary (1300 W. College St.) or the Grapevine Botanical Garden (411 Ball St.) and ride the free shuttle.

  • DiwaliFest, Saturday, 3-10 PM: Southlake Town Square. The Southlake Foundation's ninth Festival of Lights brings traditional Indian dance and food, and the night ends with fireworks. Parking is free in the East (1451 Federal Way) and West (351 State St.) garages.

  • National First Responders Day, Saturday, 4-6 PM: Trophy Club Town Center, 2240 TX-114. Trophy Club Rotary kicks it off with a trunk or treat at 4, then bounce houses and hot dogs, a police K9 demonstration, a fire hose challenge for kids and a 5:30 dance performance.

Pumpkin Point → | Nash Farm Fall Round-Up → | DiwaliFest → | First Responders Day →

📍 Worth Discovering 📍

🌳 Southlake's 758-Acre Backyard

Tucked off East Bob Jones Road, the Bob Jones Nature Center & Preserve is one of the easiest ways to trade traffic for trees around here. The city-run preserve covers 758 acres of Cross Timbers habitat, where more than 1,100 species of plants and animals have been identified. It has more than 20 miles of hiking trails, from the quarter-mile White-Tailed Deer Trail to the nearly two-mile Grapevine Lake Trail, and it's also an entry point to the Walnut Grove National Recreation Trail. Keep an eye out for tracks left by deer, coyotes and bobcats.

The name carries a story worth knowing. Bob Jones was born into slavery in 1850 and became a prosperous, highly respected rancher and farmer in what's now Roanoke and Southlake, and the preserve was once his family's land. He built a school for his grandchildren, who couldn't attend whites-only schools, and Carroll ISD's Walnut Grove Elementary is named for it. When he died on Christmas Day 1936, nearly 500 people, Black and white, attended his funeral, according to the Southlake Historical Society. The nature center building itself is the homestead the Tucker family built after buying part of the land in 1968, and the preserve opened in 2008.

The trails are open every day, and the nature center building opens during scheduled public programs. Bring water and good shoes, and leave the dog at home: dogs aren't allowed on the nature center trails.

Bob Jones Nature Center & Preserve | 355 E. Bob Jones Rd., Southlake | Trails daily 7 AM-8 PM (7 AM-5 PM in winter) | (817) 748-8658

Plan your visit to Bob Jones Nature Center →

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