Dallas County: Sandbranch

[itsjrd1964]

Sandbranch is an unincorporated neighborhood in SE Dallas County, off of Belt Line Road near its Trinity River crossing. Amazingly, this area has been around 142 years--and still has no running water. For now, volunteers and a local church have been helping residents with bottled water and donations of food.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-ap ... plocalnews

[Hannibal Lecter]

The residents choose to live there because they don't have to follow city building codes, follow city laws or pay city taxes. But they want city services -- just as long as they don't have to pay for them.

[exelone31]

I would be interested to know more about this neighborhood. I can't imagine the residents of one of the poorest areas in Dallas are clinging to their lax building codes at the expense of running water.

[texasstar]

This is so far past crazy. I don't know what to call it.

[itsjrd1964]

New Effort to Get Running Water in Former Dallas Freeman's Town of Sand Branch

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/new-e ... h/3246740/

[Hannibal Lecter]

I would be interested to know more about this neighborhood. I can't imagine the residents of one of the poorest areas in Dallas are clinging to their lax building codes at the expense of running water.

They live there because they don't want to city rules and taxes, but they want city-level services.