MPE residents submit the following support for a decrease of our neighborhood  speed limit to 15 MPH to protect our families.

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On completion of the neighborhood, there will be 116 houses (plus eighteen houses in MPE2); that means well over two hundred neighborhood autos driving 40 MPH and parking on our neighborhood streets.

 

In addition, because the city ordinance — until recently — required a divider in between the opening of the two car garages, it is impossible to fit a larger vehicle in garage, which pushes vehicles to park in the streets. 

 

Our R5 zones neighborhood has narrower streets than other residential zones. If two good-ol’-boy pickups are parked directly across the street from each other, it is impossible to get third pickup though.

 

Although a one acre pocket park inside MPE was part of the original Developer’s Agreement, the council agreed to exchange the pocket property for property outside of MPE, leaving residents with no park or common place to play and to congregate.  

 

The Serene Bankruptcy has left MPE with vacant lots and unfinished sidewalks. In the March 2021 council meeting, MPE was informed there are no deadlines to build houses and complete our neighborhood sidewalks. 

 

With the smaller quarter acre lots, narrower streets, and no pocket park, children’s play often overflows into the streets. There are at least a dozen basketball hoops set up for play on the MPE streets, and skateboards and bikes are projectiles out of steeper driveways.

 

Location 

The residential Meadow Place Estates is located just off Interstate-20 and carries, what is becoming more and more, congested traffic between Fort Worth and Weatherford. 

 

Each of the five roads in Meadow Place Estates can be used as a cut through between the I-20 access road via Meadow Place Drive and Sam Bass Drive that feeds the larger arteries headed north-south. This is not a temporary condition, for example during road construction, but happens with any traffic congestion caused by I20 traffic accidents, bad weather, and even just evening rush hour traffic, which is only worsening. 

 

MPE is also a cut through for construction trucks supplying new neighborhoods being constructed to the north and for delivery trucks supporting our northern neighbors.  

 

 

Demographics

Meadow Place Estates has highest “Student Yield” per neighborhood in the Aledo ISD. In the 2019 Aledo ISD Demographics Report, Meadow Place Estates had.974 Aledo students per house; this number does not include private school or home-school students. That means on completion of the neighborhood, there will be 116 houses with well over 100 school-age children in our small 40 acre neighborhood.

 

Sidewalks 

The sidewalks in Meadow Place Estates are directly adjacent to the roadway; there is no street box — the additional front lawn between the street and the sidewalk, which is usually filled with green space and trees, and which is required in residential areas in many cities by ordinance. This absence of the street box also means the absence of a safety barrier for side walkers, where an exuberant pup or child can easily dodge into the street for an errant ball or a fit of joy or where a distracted driver can to quickly jump a curb and immediately threaten the occupants of the sidewalks.