The Mean Mister Brownsville Comprehensive Development Plan for the Protection of Lincoln Park Assets

One of two heavily used ballfields at Lincoln Park

This plan to protect the assets of Lincoln Park will not cost the taxpayers $900,000 like the Imagine Brownsville Comprehensive Plan, that now sits on city bookshelves gathering dust like an old comic book. None of that plan's grandiose concepts were ever implemented with not a single sidewalk built or palm tree planted.

IBC President Fred Rusteberg,
Tri-Chair of United Brownsville Board

What morphed out of that plan was the Greater Brownsville Coordinating Board, once declared "unofficial" by incompetent City Attorney Mark Sossi, but now given control of the potentially lucrative development of the industrial corridor including the Port of Brownsville by the naive City Commission via Resolution Number 2014-034 approved March 4, 2014.

Carlos Marin, courtesy of Celebrity Magazine

My plan to protect Lincoln Park assets will not cost taxpayers the $454,000 approved by the Carlos Marin-controlled Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation for the Greater Brownsville Infrastructure & Development Plan for the industrial corridor including the Port of Brownsville.  That plan determines where certain types of industry will be located along the industrial corridor and port, designating certain areas to be linked by power usage requirements.  Fred Rusteberg and Carlos Marin salivate at this plan's eventual implementation.

DJ Ricky Fails to Serve Southmost

Conversely, my plan to save the assets of Lincoln Park is simple and free.  It will protect the assets of District 1, Southmost, something their commissioner, Ricky Longoria, has cowardly been unwilling to do.(Longoria should NEVER hold elective office again based on his piss-poor performance in representing Southmost.)  Longoria should be screaming bloody murder with Southmost's residents facing the loss of Lincoln Park, but he is simply too weak, too self-absorbed to stand up to Tony Martinez.

Commissioner Rose Gowen

The current plan, passed by the weak-minded City Commission, is to yield Lincoln Park to the University of Texas system, one of the world's richest, for $6,000,000.  That money, depending on who you believe, will be spent either to add amenities to Gonzalez Park or accentuate Rose Gowen's pet project, the Belden Hike & Bike Trail.  Either way, Southmost, District 1, gets robbed.

That dog won't hunt, thus the Mean Mister Brownsville Comprehensive Development Plan for the Protection of Lincoln Park Assets for your consideration.  

Acreage Owned by UT Across the Interstate
from Lincoln Park

If Lincoln Park is bulldozed so the satellite campus of UT-RGV can construct more buildings, as our dumbass City Commission has given approval, we want the identical acreage, nearly 50, across the Interstate already owned by the University of Texas system.  

Outgoing UTB President Juliet Garcia

Southmost residents should not lose their precious park facilities just because they're in proximity of the UT-RGV satellite campus.(Outgoing UTB President Juliet Garcia has admitted she has no idea what buildings, if any, will be built on the property.)

So, here's the plan:  If the ultra-rich University of Texas can't exist without Southmost's showcase Lincoln Park, have them build us another one on part of huge amount of acreage they own across the Interstate along University Blvd.   Give Southmost EVERYTHING now in Lincoln Park:  an ampitheater, nature center, two softball fields, basketball court, nature center and yes, nature trails.  

Give us the exact duplicate of Lincoln Park across the freeway or NO DEAL!

Hey, little Ricky!  That's how you represent a constituency!