I've written here before that I serve on the Lewisville Planning Board.  Generally we spend our time on thrilling conversations concerning things like where to put driveway cuts downtown, but this week we're ramping it up a notch at our public meeting (Wednesday, 7:30 at Town Hall). We have a case that involves three lots downtown that Hayworth Miller is requesting to be rezoned so that they can build a funeral home. I've heard that several of our citizens aren't real pleased with the location for the funeral home, so I expect we'll have a lively crowd tomorrow night.  If you plan on coming to see the festivities bring your own refreshments since there isn't a concession stand at Town Hall.

At our last work session the folks at Hayworth Miller presented some initial drawings and took questions from the Board and one of the questions asked by a fellow member of the Board just about knocked me out of my chair.  He asked, and I'm paraphrasing here, "What other uses are you considering for the facility?" I have to admit that I kind of thought he'd lost it when he asked the question because, I mean, what else would you use a funeral home for?  Ends up he hadn't lost it.  Apparently a new trend in the funeral home business is the use of their chapels for weddings.  I'll let you think about that a minute and see if you enjoy, as much as I did, the thought of so many jokes that just write themselves about a marriage that begins at a funeral home. (Feel free to share them in the comments).

Anyhoo, I expect tomorrow night's meeting to be a long and rather interesting one.  If you're a Lewisville citizen and want to say your piece then come on out and join us.