April Towery
April Towery covers Dallas City Hall and is an assistant editor for CandysDirt.com. She studied journalism at Texas A&M University and has been an award-winning reporter and editor for more than 25 years.
After an extensive community outreach effort, consultants announced last week they plan to target three areas of Southern Dallas for focused investment and more affordable housing in the Dallas Housing Policy 2033. The areas comprise about 10 percent of Dallas, said TDA Consulting Group President and CEO Dionne Roberts. “The target areas are intended to…
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Dallas City Council members granted a controversial rezoning Wednesday to allow a group home on South Polk Street to continue operations as a multifamily dwelling in a single-family neighborhood. A code complaint was filed by a neighbor last summer after operators remodeled the nine-bedroom home into individual units for formerly unhoused military veterans, prompting applicant…
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The cost of building a home in Dallas will likely increase this year as the city reviews the Dallas building permit fee schedule for the first time since 2015 — but it won’t happen until March 27 at the earliest. The Dallas Development Services Department collects about $28 million in revenue each year, but has…
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As temperatures dipped below freezing on the evening of Jan. 18, a panel of Dallas City Council members discussed the Homelessness, Organizations, Policies, and Encampments report — the HOPE report, for short — calling for a solution to the city’s unsheltered homelessness crisis. District 2 Councilman Jesse Moreno, who chairs the Housing and Homelessness Solutions…
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Kevin Rachel and his wife moved to Kessler Park in 2020 because they liked the character of the North Oak Cliff neighborhood with its diverse historical architecture, hilly topography, and lush landscape. About a year after the Rachels found their dream home on Canyon Creek within the Kessler Park Conservation District, construction began nearby on…
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