Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Take your comic books, George, and scram.

Just days after settling a lawsuit over land for the George W. Bush Presidential Library, Southern Methodist University in Dallas faces another showdown with its neighbors. This time, local homeowners object to plans to build two library parking lots across an alley from their homes.
Area homeowners, fearing that the projected number of annual visitors to the presidential library will trample and destroy their neighborhood, want to know why library visitors can’t park in existing SMU lots that are designated for overflow traffic. Library officials say they need a design that puts regular parking closer to the building. Groundbreaking is scheduled to begin this fall.

Personally, this frantic hoo-hah about crowd control and overflow traffic is comical. With or without additional parking at SMU, why on earth would anybody pay money to visit the George W. Bush Presidential Library?

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