#School Closings – Play Fair With Rosedale

Rosedale School Redevelopment Timeline

With a wave of a piece of paper, the old Rosedale School property survived the first attempt to sell it off. But what worked in 1981 may not work now. Legal covenants that shielded the 87 year-old school site from development as anything other than a school or single-family residences Read more

By Daniel Ray, 1 monthApril 28, 2026 ago

Zoning

Yes in My Back Yard

Some claim Rosedale residents are NIMBYs for refusing to roll over when AISD sued more than 100 of us, on the developer’s behalf, to try to make it possible to build an outsized Texas Donut on the original Rosedale Elementary School site. This ill-conceived plan would overwhelm narrow neighborhood streets Read more

By Play Fair With Rosedale, 2 monthsApril 11, 2026 ago