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By DAN KOLLERStaff Writer
’Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the town, not a pedicab was stirring; their application was turned down.
T h e H i g h l a n d Pa r k Town Council on Monday approved an ordinance that prohibits pedicab businesses. The legislation came after one company sought a permit to run pedicab tours through the
town’s streets during the Christmas season.
“We just didn’t see that there was a crying need for these types of things in our community, as a business,” Mayor Joel Williams said.
For the uninit iated,
a pedicab is a passen-ger vehicle powered by a cyclist. Robert Tobolowsky of Dallas Pedicabs, the company that applied for a permit, was understand-ably disappointed by the council’s decision.
“We’re not happy. We were trying to meet a demand we saw for our services,” he said in a phone interview.
Tobolowsky’s company, which he co-owns with four fellow SMU gradu-ates, operates pedicabs in Uptown, downtown, Victory Park, and Deep
Ellum. He said he and his partners wanted to expand to Highland Park for the holiday season, to com-pete with the horse-drawn carriage tours inspired by the town’s extensive Christmas-light displays.
“We’re obviously not as
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By GEORGiA FishERStaff Writer
Some people think Love Field’s name is a tribute to Southwest Airlines; a nod to the company’s heart logo, perhaps, or its “LUV” ticker symbol, or the brand of all-around lovey-dovi-ness that has endeared it to discount flyers since the early 1970s.
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Back in a Moment, Love Field’s new interior court-yard from Dallas sculptor
Town Prohibits Pedicab BusinessesHighland Park may alter rules for horse carriages
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By ANDREw PLOCK Staff Writer
About two and a half years ago, Beverly Hill awoke from a dream that was hard to forget.
She was left with a vivid image of a clothesline suspended high off the ground, with pairs of baby booties dangling from the strand. The shoes hung on the line, one foot apart, as far as the eye could see in either direction. As a sculptor, ideas like this could be inspiration for Hill’s next piece. But she knew it was reserved for one thing — something she had been rallying against for quite some time.
“The dream woke me up in the middle of the night,” Hill said. “I thought, ‘I know this is about gender-cide.’ ”
Nine months later, the University Park resident began the Gendercide Awareness Project , a group designed to raise awareness of the elimina-tion of millions of females
By BRADFORD PEARsONStaff Writer
T h e H i g h l a n d Pa r k Community League has been fined $200, after a Texas Ethics Commission investigation revealed that the group violated various campaign laws.
In its Aug. 30 decision, the commission deter-mined that the league “represented in campaign communications that a candidate held an elec-tive public office that he did not hold and did not include the highway right-of-way notice on political advertising.” The candi-date in question is cur-rent Mayor Joel Williams. The sign read “Highland Park Community League Endorses Mayor: Joel
Williams,” then listed the other candidates for the Town Council. The com-mission held that the sign should have included the word “for,” as in “Highland Park Community League Endorses Joel Williams For Mayor.”
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The signs should have made it clearer that Joel Williams was not the mayor, the ruling said.
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Sherry Owens is creating seven 12-foot trees for Back in a Moment, an art installation she will soon bring to Love Field.
Installation will include tribute to its namesake
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Group aims to raise awareness of gendercide
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Couple Puts New Spin on Old Furnishings
By wiLLiAM JAMEs GERLiChStaff Writer
After a trip to London decades ago, University Park residents Dudley and Aimee Simms became obsessed with Old English design. So much so, that they wanted people in Dallas to enjoy it as well.
you may remember Highgate House as a pop-up shop in Highland Park Village or Snider Plaza,
but the antique store now has a permanent home in the Design District, which attests to the owners’ pas-
sion to building their busi-ness and brand.
Approaching the first anniversary for their
Dragon Street location, the Simms have branched out from their origi-nal aesthetic, featuring contemporary artists in their store. On Saturday, dovetailing with Dragon Street ’s annual gallery walk, Highgate House will have an artist reception for three painters who Dudley said complements the store’s English aes-thetic beautifully.
“We recently transi-tioned to selling contem-porary art, because it looks great with our traditional dark furniture we sell in
Contemporary artists displayed at antique store
PHOTO: EMILIA GASTON
A trip to London inspired Dudley and Aimee Simms of University Park to launch their store, Highgate House.
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messy as a horse carriage,” Tobolowsky said. “We don’t smell as bad.”
Odors aside, Highland Park is considering a change to the ordinance that regulates horse -drawn carriages.
Applicants for carriage licenses would be required to provide daily schedules detailing how many car-riages would be on the streets and when. (The current ordinance prohib-its carriages from oper-
ating between 12:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.) The hope is that such schedules would allow town officials to limit traffic congestion.
No action was taken on the carriage ordinance Monday, but related issues were discussed. Carriage licenses are good 365 days a year, and the mayor wants to limit that.
“They ’re real ly just used in the holiday sea-son,” Williams said, “but the holiday season seems to expand, starting earlier every year.”
Department of Public Safety Director Chris
Vinson said the only times he’s seen horse-drawn carriages operate out-side the Thanksgiving-to-New-year’s window were a couple of weddings and the occasional Halloween hayride.
Williams also discussed raising the fees for car-riage operators, who are charged $50 for a license, plus $50 for each carriage and $25 for each driver.
“To me, they’re kind of nuisance charges,” Williams said. “It ’s not very much.”
Vinson said that fee schedule was designed just
to offset the cost of pro-cessing carriage operators’ paperwork.
But he and Williams agreed that the fees should be raised to help cover the cost of repairing street damage caused by metal horseshoes. Vinson also suggested that the town could require “some kind of rubber- composite” horseshoe, but Williams said some carriage opera-tors have said such shoes are unsafe, because horses wearing them can slip on slick streets.
The mayor, the council, and the town’s staff agreed
that raising the fees for this holiday season would be unfair to the carriage oper-ators, because they haven’t had a chance to budget for higher fees and at least two of them have already paid in full. But operators should consider them-selves warned: Higher fees are on the way.
“The town is, in effect, subsidizing the carriage operators,” Williams said.
The pedicabs ordinance approved Monday also prohibits the commer-cial use of “neighborhood electric vehicles,” which are not to be confused
with golf carts. NEVs can be outfitted with doors, and some models resem-ble conventional vehicles, even though they can’t exceed 45 mph.
Rick Pyle, ass istant director of the Department of Publ ic Safety, said Highland Park has not received an application to operate such a busi-ness. NEVs were added to the pedicabs ordinance simply because town offi-cials noticed that many other municipalities have lumped the two together.
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the store,” Dudley said. “The art we’re featuring at the event is new, fresh, and vibrant. It ties everything together.”
But tieing everything together in the boutique is no easy task, Dudley said. Their store is packed with whatnots. Most of their inventory is comprised of reproduction furni-ture — tables and desks — handmade in England. They also have a variety of home furnishings that they import from England, and custom-made lamps he and his wife create.
“The majority of our furniture comes from England, and we supple-ment our inventory with t h i n g s w e f i n d f r o m antique fairs here in the country,” Dudley said. “We don’t go to abroad much now, because we have
built relationships with English dealers and trust what they send us. There, we have skilled craftsmen build 19th-century-style tables that look old and distressed, but are not rick-ety, like true antique tables are.”
The tables, which run from $3,000 to $6,000, are quality. Naturally, since the heavy tables are from abroad, a chunk of the cost goes to shipping. But Dudley said he has not found a better craftsman in the states. For the past
20 years, he has been sell-ing tables from the English furniture maker in Dallas, and the family who pur-
chased one of the first tables he sold still use it today, he said.
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designer by trade, reuphol-sters a lot of the vintage fur-niture they sell at Highgate House. Dudley said she is
busy playing many roles, including being the store’s chief curator, as well as a mom of four.
The Simms’ house on Southwestern Boulevard matches their store and has numerous reproduced tables in it . They also have a number of antiques that Dudley said they had intended to sell in the store, but couldn’t part with.
“Our house is the same aesthetic as the store, but since we’ve opened up shop, we’ve had to shift our attention to starting the business,” Dudley said, claiming their home hasn’t seen many updates in the last year. “But our house is a kid-friendly place. And there we have a lot of sen-timental pieces that have history. That’s one of the things we like to provide our customers: history behind each piece of furni-ture we sell.”
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IF YOU GOWhat: Reception for Dominique Jordan, Amy mcKenzie, and Lindsey meyer
When: 6 p.m. Saturday
Where: Highgate House, 1230 Dragon St.
For more information: Visit highgatehouseonline.com.
PHOTO: EMILIA GASTON
If you like Highgate House’s aesthetic, then you’ll love the look of owners Dudley and Aimee Simms’ University Park home. Dudley said it features antiques they intended to sell but couldn’t part with.