Jake Wurman - North Fort Worth Resident and Community Advocate

08/27/2025

Finally getting that library branch and this is our chance to vote for the name of the branch. Each of the four options are intended to be a nod to the local area & these four are the best of the 51 recommended by the volunteer library board! It takes less than 30 seconds to complete the form and you can as many times as you have unique email addresses!

03/16/2024

Fort Worth is becoming a powerhouse in the Arts! Film, Television, Live Music (both orchestral and popular), Architectural Preservation, and Art. The cuisine options are fantastic and this would only add to the lore and the lure of Cowtown to tourists and their wallets! 💰

City abuzz with talk of ‘Yellowstone’ producer putting together deal for historic Stockyards eatery.

11/16/2023

The retail shop's opening adds to the company's footprint in Fort Worth which includes a 1.2 million-square-foot distribution center.

06/01/2023

The Summer Garage Library is open! New cards are waiting for our neighborhood readers 📚 📚

10/05/2022

ISD employees and their families get to keep their local medical options thanks to a last minute deal!

An agreement was reached just hours before the contract was set to expire.

07/27/2022

SHORT TERM RENTALS (AirBnB & VRBO)

Please see copy of email from the North Fort Worth Alliance (approximately 65 HOAs connected to create the largest voting block in the city) that spans three council districts North of 820:

Folks,

It is time to let your Council member, in fact all the Council members and the Mayor, your board's position on Short Term Rentals.

The United Neighborhoods of Fort Worth, which is made up of many of the HOAs, Neighborhood Associations, and Neighborhood Alliances, is advocating for keeping the rules as they are now. No STRs in residential neighborhoods. Homeowners can request a rezoning to become a B&B, but they have to go to the Zoning Commission. The neighborhood association and the neighbors within 300 feet would be notified and have a chance to support or oppose the rezoning.

All the research point to this being the best way to protect our individual neighborhoods of all the options.

Some HOAs have provisions that exclude STRs in their declaratory documents. There are some who have adopted policies, drawn up by their lawyers, that prohibit STRs. The downside of this is that the HOA is subject to a law suit to defend those positions. There is a national association backing proponents of STRs and could make it very expensive to defend the declaratory documents or the policies. Also, there is no telling if a judge would uphold those policies or document provisions.

My observation is that mandatory HOAs have the power to at least see that the STR properties are kept up to standard. However, voluntary neighborhood associations do not. Their only protection is through City Ordinance.

Second, we all know we do not have adequate police patrols in our areas to respond to loud parties or disturbances in a timely manner, if at all. The City also does not have the Code Enforcement Officers to be able to enforce the current ordinances and are left investigating the worst of the worst. Until those deficiencies are remedied, the unsavory elements of STRs will disrupt our neighborhoods. (Not all STRs will produce unsavory elements.)

I urge you to encourage your board to pass a resolution supporting Option 1. Current Ordinances and notify the Mayor and Council of your decision.

I urge you to get your residents involved in writing as well. If our voice isn't heard, we will be herded.

Mailing list:

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07/20/2022

We know it's hot outside. So hot you can soften butter by sticking it on your back porch for five seconds. But you know the best entertainment when it's hot outside? Going to buy school supplies in a fancy, cool, air-conditioned store!

We've compiled school supply lists for each of our campuses in the handy link at the bottom of this post. So, what are you waiting for? The time is now! Don't wait till the last minute when people are battling Black Friday style in the Walmart aisle for the last glue stick or Trapper Keeper. You don't need that kind of energy in your life. No one does. But if you actually find a Trapper Keeper, you should probably buy it and throw that thing on eBay.

Find the school supply lists for your elementary and middle school students here: bit.ly/3yP6hVI

07/16/2022

The demolition has been planned with detours this weekend to minimize the traffic impacts of the project, according to TxDOT.

07/12/2022

Great to see a business stepping into an existing building and zoning. Fort Worth needs to keep up this practice with it’s own vacant sites and empty buildings rather than allowing commercial zoned land to be changed to multi family and other intensive residential uses.

B&B Theatres, the nation’s largest privately held theater chain, has acquired the former Alamo Drafthouse location in North Richland Hills, with the aim of reopening the theater somewhere around the ...