Here’s whose running for far north Fort Worth’s District 10 City Council seat
Business owner Chris Jamieson and former City Council district director Alicia Ortiz are facing off in the May 2 special election to replace outgoing District 10 council member Alan Blaylock.
Blaylock, who joined the council in 2022 (replacing Ortiz’s former boss Cary Moon), is leaving the council to run for the Texas House District 93 seat.
District 10’s boundary wraps around the city of Halset and bumps up against Fort Worth’s northern city limits. Its southern limit is largely bounded by Golden Triangle Boulevard east of Interstate 35W and Big Fossil Creek west of the interstate.
Both candidates placed a premium on building out the district’s roads. While the areas east of the interstate are largely built out by Hillwood housing developments surrounding Alliance, west of the interstate is largely intersected by farm to market roads built for the area’s agrarian past.
Jamieson, who lives west of the interstate in the Willow Ridge Estates, said in an interview with the Star-Telegram editorial board it sometimes takes 20 to 30 minutes for police and fire to respond to emergency calls.
He praised efforts by the city of Fort Worth and Tarrant County to improve traffic on Bonds Ranch Road, but said that work has largely been reactive to the massive development the area has experienced.
Ortiz noted in the same interview that many of the roads in the western half of the district are bounded by soft shoulders and bar ditches, making it hard for emergency vehicles to turn around and navigate past traffic.
Residents sometimes get told to call Roanoke for emergency situations and that is not acceptable, she said.
She said she would develop partnerships with nearby cities to improve east-west thoroughfares like Avondale-Haslet Road to improve traffic and safety.
In addition to roads, both candidates said fiscal responsibility would be a high priority if elected to the District 10 council seat.
Jamieson pointed to his experience buying, selling, and running businesses to argue why he’d be the better candidate for cutting inefficiency in the city.
Ortiz highlighted her work with former council member Cary Moon, who was one of the main drivers on the City Council’s audit committee working to save taxpayer dollars.
Early voting starts runs Monday, April 20 through Tuesday, April 28. Election day is May 2.
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