Please... allow me to respond to this one.

First off, when you cater specifically to criminals, thats what you will get.

When you rent rooms by the hour, turn your head on drug dealing, and generally make the place a friendly haven for scumbags--it's the scumbags you will get.

The owners of the Townview/Classic Motel deliberately solicit these types of patrons. Their efforts bring destruction to a part of town that needs to rid itself of destructive forces.

The Southern part of Dallas has had more than their share of these types of establishments. It's time for them to go.

Dwayne and Mikey are doing things, now, that have been overlooked by the "leaders" in the area for decades. Speaking as a native Dallasite, I hope their dedication and perseverance is catching!

[[First off, when you cater specifically to criminals, thats what you will get.]]

The Motel does not advertise anywhere "criminals welcome". How can you claim that they cater "specifically" to them?

[[When you rent rooms by the hour, turn your head on drug dealing, and generally make the place a friendly haven for scumbags--it's the scumbags you will get.]]

Agreed. There was a market trend to rent rooms-by-the-hour. Does Classic Motel indulge in this market trend? NO. Did it ever indulge? Yes. It did. And it got slapped by the city 3 years back and it has never since done that. It does not have a single complaint filed in the last 3 years. Can you explain that? In fact, the owners make a conscious effort to shoo off such dirty characters of their premises. After all, their own kids live & play on the same premises. Just speak to the local police department and they will also agree!

[[The owners of the Townview/Classic Motel deliberately solicit these types of patrons.]]

Are you serious? Have you ever tried renting a room at the Townview/Classic Motel? If you have not, I challenge you to do so and find you the truth yourself. At this point, all you have is hearsay.

[[Their efforts bring destruction to a part of town that needs to rid itself of destructive forces.]]

read above. The family who manages the motel lives there, on the same premises. Who in the right mind will allow their own young kids to stay where there is drugs & prostitution? Let us be realistic.

[[The Southern part of Dallas has had more than their share of these types of establishments. It's time for them to go.]]

Agreed. But what about the ones that are changing for the better? Do you still want them demolished and rob the sole livelyhood of a hard working immigrant family?

[[Dwayne and Mikey are doing things, now, that have been overlooked by the "leaders" in the area for decades. Speaking as a native Dallasite, I hope their dedication and perseverance is catching! ]]

Kudos to these guys for their social awareness and hardwork. My only plea is that please pick and choose their targets wisely based upon current records, not age old history, and certainly not by hearsay.

Thanks again!

[Ed Note: Look, the motel owners know what's going on at their motel. You, yourself, acknowledged that they once "rented rooms by the hour." There is only one reason to rent rooms by the hour ("market trend" or not). You and I both know what it is! Bottom line: it is a motel that specifically caters to (and is friendly toward) illegal activity. It needs to go!

It seems like each time we announce a motel we get a comment like this.

I welcome it; it's a free country.

However, the only thing those owners seem to work hard at is to look the other way when crime happens in and on their property.

To answer your question, closing the motel will stop that building from aiding and abetting crime. It's a good thing the motel owners can't be arrested for aiding and abetting felony crime. Actually, the operator of the American Inn (the last motel) WAS arrested for operating a Sexually Oriented Business.

I wish I had the Channel 5 news clip which showed the owner allowing known prostitutes to frequent the rooms and bring johns onto the property.

I realize that there is a contigent of people that want us to work with the motel owners. They'll just have to be mad because we are going to close every hot-sheet motel in Southern Dallas.

And if the motel owners decide to become petty criminals they can grab a bunk in Lew Sterrett next to the people they rent to at their property.

And if the motel owners decide to become petty criminals they can grab a bunk in Lew Sterrett next to the people they rent to at their property.

And you don't care........you are just hungry for recognition....to be in the limelight.....get trying to get some attention. Right?

Tell me how to find out if the person who is renting the room is not a criminal? Is there a definite mechanism? Do you want them to call up the police and do a record check for each and every guest who comes there? Would you like it if the Hilton ran a criminal record check on each and every person who rents a room there?

[Ed Note: See, this is the stuff I like: "They didn't know these people were criminals!" Yeah, these are poor dumb idiots who don't know anything about the world around them -- let alone their business, right? Wrong. These are folks who are in to making a buck however they can -- at anyone's expense. They know good-and-well what goes on, and they choose to (1) allow it and (2) make it easy for these folks to do business with them. These guys aren't that dumb!]

That was a typical response.

I don't need recognition or attention. I'm already known. I need for kids to not be propositioned on their way to school. I need for people to be able to sit outside without fear of catching a bullet from a drug deal gone wrong in one of these rooms.

I would much rather be working on my own business than doing this stuff. But when you get called to do stuff on behalf of citizens, and you can get it done, you have to do it.

These places rent hourly, they rent to hookers and johns and drug dealers.

Here's a quote from Chan Patel, a former hot-sheet motel owner that used his tainted profits to get rich and now presides over the State Bank of Texas (and finances a lot of these hellholes) once had this to say in a previous Dallas Morning News interview:

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“When asked why he was forced to go back to accepting business from prostitutes, Dallas motel-owner Chandrakant Patel said, “After awhile, you say, ‘I can't survive, I've got to go back to hourly rates.’”

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Here is the NBC 5 clip I spoke about earlier.

NBC 5: link

Trust me, I could care less about haters. You can't be friends with everyone. But as one of my mentors once told me, if you're friends with everyone you never made a tough decision in your life.

I welcome you to come to the Board of Adjustment hearing and speak on behalf of the motel owners.

Michael Davis