This smells like sewage to me. I can't believe our law makers let this pass, Who the hell is the

Trinity river vision authority? They don't need vision they need to be roasted themselves.

Thanks Harry... The TRVA is a non-profit (?) development Corp. set up under the Tarrant Regional Water District. In 2005, our State Rep. passed a law that set this entity up, giving it the power of eminent domain for economic development. They are proceeding with their "Vision" by taking over 100 properties and digging a by-pass channel to re-route the Trinity River. There is too much to relate here, so go to http://www.citizenswhocare.net for an overview of their plan and our alternative plan. This Woodshed restaurant is not even in the designated "Vision" area. Since the Water District controls and manages the lands along the river and lakes , it can now do pretty much what it wants to do with the hundreds of millions of dollars that it is pocketing from the Barnett Shale royalties that it earns from the public lands that it oversees. Instead of lowering water rates and using that money to insure our future water needs, as their charter USED to state, they are embarking on these "Vision" projects and picking winners and loosers using nepotism, cronyism, favoritism while being able to shield their actions from the public view through the use of obscure state laws passed to the benefit of water political subdivisions.

Thanks Texas Watchdog for putting this before some new eyes.

So, what's being done about it other than griping?