Upgraded our insulation to R50 this week

This week we had insulation added to our home. We went from 6 inches of insulation, installed when the house was built in 1983, to 20+ inches of insulation with a radiant barrier. This should save us a lot of money over the years. That said, we have a vaulted ceiling so there's still other solutions to find. A lot of our roofline doesn't have attic over it.

Carrollton City Presentation - Green Parking options

Today my staff and I saw a presentation by Peter J. Braster, Sr. TOD Manager for the City of Carrollton. The city has a great master plan for the three DART stations that are set to open in December of this year.



Peter walked us through the development around Downtown Carrollton which is already underway. There is a new parking lot being installed which will be green in that cars will park on "grasscrete" and the paving bricks used in the lot can be reused later when the permanent parking structure is built in a few years. Then this lot will be converted back for use as a building. Here's a sample of what it looks like.







While some of the plans are waiting on commercial funding, other aspects of the plan are well underway. Watch Carrollton transform. Great things are coming.


Find out more about the Carrollton TOD efforts at their Facebook Group