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.
At last. The ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive plan was officially adopted and is now the guiding document for future land use in the ninth-largest city in America. A lot of ink has been spilled about what led up to the Dallas City Council’s 11-4 vote to pass the document on Sept. 25. As always, some golden…
When the West Oak Cliff Area Plan — a plan to give displacement-vulnerable residents more control over new development in their neighborhood — was unanimously approved in September 2022, it was clear that change was coming and not everyone would embrace it. Slowly but surely, the public meetings in an authorized hearing area that includes…
Local real estate developer Christian Chernock has two zoning cases pending before the City Plan Commission on which he serves. The question his fellow plan commissioners will be charged with determining next month isn’t one of ethics or personal integrity, Chernock told CandysDirt.com. It’s whether hotels are an appropriate land use for the touristy Bishop…
The Dallas Board of Adjustment has been tasked with the unenviable decision of whether to allow builders to finish their construction projects — that were built in violation of a zoning code approved two years prior — or appease the hard-fighting Elm Thicket neighborhood that was granted stipulations via an overlay district to ensure compatible…
From a once-pristine building that was overtaken by squatters to a multimillion-dollar structure intended to house code inspectors but wasn’t up to code, the City of Dallas has failed in its efforts to manage 5,800 real estate assets, council members agreed at a recent committee meeting. Director of Facilities and Real Estate John Johnson reviewed…
