April Towery
April Towery is former News Development Director for CandysDirt.com and covers Dallas City Hall. She studied journalism at Texas A&M University and has been an award-winning reporter and editor for more than 25 years.
Real estate reporters are constantly asking state legislators what bills we should be keeping an eye on and what’s happening with things like low-income housing tax credits, accessory dwelling units, and, of course, property taxes. But the Dallas Housing Coalition just rolled out a “lege tracker” webpage that’s going to make our jobs a little…
Residents who live near Dallas Love Field have been raising concerns for years that excessive noise from the City-owned airport has severely diminished their quality of life and, in some cases, had them contemplating moving to a new location. Oak Lawn Heights resident Anna Jordan entered the chat early this year by launching Loudfield.org, a…
Dallas plan commissioners continued review Thursday of a proposal to reduce or eliminate minimum parking requirements for new development. Following several hours of discussion and a public hearing that drew 19 speakers, commissioners made more amendments to the proposal on the floor and scheduled another special-called meeting for 9 a.m. March 4. Chief Planners Michael…
Pour a cup of coffee and buckle up. This year’s Dallas City Council election is going to be interesting. As Dallas faces fallout from a recently adopted comprehensive land use plan, a housing affordability crisis, and complicated matters such as parking reform and short-term rentals, there’s no shortage of real estate issues that will likely…
Perhaps one of the spiciest debates of late among Dallas City Council members occurred Wednesday as residents of Southeast Oak Cliff’s Floral Farms — where “Shingle Mountain” once stood — were finally granted a rezoning that will prohibit new heavy industrial uses on a large tract of primarily undeveloped land near their homes. Referred to…
