Ted Barker, that defender of White Rock Lake, is fighting an old battle this week. When the city built new baseball fields at Winfrey Point two years ago, he told them there wasn’t enough parking.
This past weekend, Barker and his brother Hal noted cars and trucks parked on grass and supposedly protected Texas wildflower areas. Barker says he is writing a letter demanding the city enforce parking everywhere or waive parking enforcement citywide. Otherwise, he says, he will file suit.
“It was a disaster out here (Sunday),” Ted Barker says. “There were hundreds of cars parked all over the place.”
Hal Barker appeared on NBC DFW Monday night, with video he captured of the chaotic parking situation at the lake this past weekend:
The Barkers says Dallas Police refused to issue parking tickets at the lake Sunday on orders from City Hall. But parks director Paul Dyer says that’s not true.
There is no easy solution to the parking demand at White Rock.
“The city needs about a thousand more parking spaces out here,” Ted Barker says. “That would take about 11 acres and the entire area would be paved.”
