A mound of mulch stirred up some controversy in Dallas Cochran Park.
Frustrated by the city's failure to remove a mound of mulch, local attorney Bobby Abtahi posted this photo and others on social media.For the last few months, Bobby Abtahi and others in his neighborhood have been trying to get the city to clean up a mound of mulch they say was dumped in February at Dallas’ Cochran Park on North Henderson Avenue. Abtahi, a former Dallas city attorney, said he and others have been promised by city officials that the mound would be taken care of soon.
After several months, the mulch hardened and started to attract pests, Abtahi said. Children would pass by it twice a day as they walked to and from school. Some kids would play on the mound. “This has been here for a long time,” Abtahi said. “Why is it still here?”He figured the city was waiting until spring to clean it up, so he waited. But spring came and went, and the mound was still there.
As a former city attorney, Abtahi added, “I actually know who to call and what to do. If I can’t get it done, what chance does the average citizen have?” Abtahi said if the city can’t fix something as simple as this, he’s not sure how it expects to be able to address bigger problems. “According to Karimi, the Park board representative who served under my predecessor started this project but did not complete it in her term,” Ridley said. “Subsequently, my park board rep allowed her to work with the neighbors to get this completed out of courtesy to her.”
For her part, Schulz, the former park board rep who started the project, said there's been some misinformation surrounding the mound's removal."I told Rudy [Karimi] that we would be working to move it over the weekend before the 19th," Schulz told thevia Facebook Messenger."Some of it got moved and the pile was leveled at the top. The rest of it is being moved this weekend. If there is any small bit remaining, the park department is going to remove that next week.
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