New industrial activity at Shingle Mountain must force Dallas to fix its unjust zoning decisions
Southern Dallas leaders Frederick Haynes and Michael Sorrell call out the city for failing to protect this vulnerable neighborhood from environmental racism.
Dr. Frederick Haynes, pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, asked for accountability from Dallas city leaders during a community meeting Monday, streamed on Facebook Live, at the home of Southern Sector Rising leader Marsha Jackson.(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor)
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Dallas City Hall’s failure to fix unjust decades-old zoning decisions sends a “y’all come” invitation for the next Shingle Mountain to invade the southeast neighborhood of Floral Farms.
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Marsha Jackson, a resident at Floral Farms, looks at the giant pile of shingles that is visible from her backyard. Jackson says she wears long-sleeved shirts when she’s outside due to the harmful particles in the air.
Though the city has hired a company to haul Shingle Mountain away, residents of Floral Farms in southeast Dallas say tearing it down would be just the start of the recovery process. They re calling for more to be done, including the implementation of a plan that will address racial zoning.
For close to three years, in the agricultural community of Floral Farms, a mound of shingles stands so high that it s been notoriously nicknamed Shingle Mountain.