Lazy, Frisco. All over the U.S. and all over the world you find communities that close portions of the city streets just on weekends. Why doesn’t Frisco come up with a compromise between Main Street merchants that do not want a closed street seven days a week and a minority of citizens that want a “promenade?”

For many years, the Frisco motto has been “we succeed in spite of ourselves.” Now that the town has a new manager and has shed itself of an unimaginative community development director, it is time to energize and recreate our old fun-loving and special town. Fireworks! A real parade! Food trucks in the marina! The town tried “park-lets” on Main Street, but instead of food and beverage patios, Main Street became a funky and ugly bazar of clothing racks. Let’s have food and beverage patio extensions all summer and allow clothing racks on a weekend-only, closed Main Street.

Many times Frisco has been guilty of listening to short-time residents here for a year or two and ignoring the wishes of long-time and committed residents. Many times, Frisco has taken the short cut and easy way out. I hope the new town manager can energize the overstaffed Town Hall to fix it’s own internal problems and create more respect for the locals and their needs.