The Northline, Issue #015

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In this Northline Issue…

🪧 Trophy Club Prices Out New Welcome Signs

📜 Haslet Is Writing Its Own City Charter

♿ Southlake Makes City Documents Easier to Use

🍰 Local Table: Cole's Custom Cheesecakes Opens in North Richland Hills

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🌦️ The Forecast

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📰 The Local Rundown

🪧 Trophy Club Prices Out New Welcome Signs

Trophy Club has spent much of this year deciding what its front door should look like. On Monday, the Town Council gets the final draft of its Gateway and Wayfinding Signage Master Plan, along with planning-level price tags for building it.

The plan, prepared by consultant Olsson, covers new monument signs at the town's main entrances, a set of directional signs, and advice for updating the signs already up. The estimates put the Trophy Club Drive gateway at $765,600, Trophy Lake Drive at $619,200, Trophy Wood Drive at $578,400 and Bobcat Boulevard at $229,200. The directional signs would add about $672,000. Those numbers include a 20% contingency but not design fees, and the town says they will change as the scope, materials and timing get settled.

Council chose a preferred monument design in April. After reviewing a draft in August, members asked for signs sized to each road's travel speed and a list of ways to pay for them. The town's 2027 budget sets aside $300,000 for wayfinding signs, and the plan points to hotel tax revenue, economic development funds and grants as other options. Monday's 6 PM work session, in the council chambers at 1 Trophy Wood Drive, is for discussion only; the plan returns on a future agenda for a vote.

Review the Oct. 26 council agenda → | See the sign designs and cost estimates →

📜 Haslet Is Writing Its Own City Charter

What would it mean for Haslet to become a home rule city? A 15-member volunteer commission has been working on that question since February, and it is taking questions from residents ahead of a town hall on Dec. 2.

Right now, Haslet is a general law city, which means it can only use the powers state law specifically gives it. Texas lets cities with more than 5,000 residents adopt a home rule charter instead. The charter works like a local constitution, setting how the city government is organized and what it can do, along with rules for elections, recalls and future amendments.

Once the Home Rule Charter Commission finishes its draft, the City Council places it on the ballot at the next uniform election date. Every registered voter in Haslet gets a copy by mail 30 days before the election, and the charter needs a simple majority to pass. The commission's next meeting is Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 7 PM.

Submit a question for the town hall → | See the commission's Nov. 4 meeting →

♿ Southlake Makes City Documents Easier to Use

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Southlake has added a new accessibility tool called DocAccess to more than 2,700 documents on its website, including council agendas and minutes, budgets, strategic plans, reports and historical records. It's built to help residents with disabilities read and navigate them. Here's what it can do:

  • Works with screen readers and supports keyboard navigation for people who can't use a mouse

  • Shows complex graphs as easier-to-read numbers and adds text descriptions to maps

  • Lets you ask an AI-powered search questions about a document instead of paging through it

  • Translates documents into more than 250 languages

  • Offers free visual interpretation help, 24 hours a day

To use it, open any city document and switch on the accessibility toggle in the top-left corner of the screen. The toggle resets every time you open a new document, so you'll need to turn it back on.

Read the city's announcement →

🍽️ Local Table 🍽️

🆕 New Opening: Cole's Custom Cheesecakes | 8700 N. Tarrant Pkwy., Suite 103, North Richland Hills

A cheesecake shop built on a grandmother's recipes has opened in North Richland Hills. Cole's Custom Cheesecakes now has a storefront on North Tarrant Parkway, in the small center with Rita's Italian Ice and Kindred Coffee, selling cheesecake by the slice, whole cakes and bite-size minis. It's takeout only, with no seats inside.

Owner Cole Jones started the business in 2020 while caring for his grandmother, who had Alzheimer's, and learned her recipes to keep her baking tradition going. He sold cheesecakes out of his car, then at pop-ups and farmers markets, and won the Keller Chamber of Commerce's Best New Business Award in 2023. The best-seller is Grandma's Sweet Potato Pie cheesecake, based on her signature pie, CultureMap Fort Worth reports.

For now, whole 9-inch cheesecakes ($50 to $60) and dozens of minis ($30 to $47) are available by pre-order. The shop is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM to 7 PM, and closed Sundays and Mondays.

Visit the website → | Read the full story from CultureMap Fort Worth →

Know about a new spot, a closing, or a hidden gem? Hit reply and tell us.

📅 Around The Line

Correction: Sunday's calendar listed Baby Rhyme Time at the Roanoke Public Library on Tuesday. The library has paused storytimes through Nov. 4 for voting, so it won't meet this week.

Monday, Oct. 26

Tuesday, Oct. 27

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