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.
The Dallas Board of Adjustment came down hard Tuesday on a builder who constructed a duplex on a lot with improper zoning. Then the panel came down even harder on the city officials who issued permits and approved plans based on outdated codes. “I’m embarrassed for the city,” said Dave Neumann, a former District 1…
Who’s afraid of a little ol’ land use plan? Well, for starters, a resident who has a five-story apartment building overlooking her backyard. An architect who thinks the plan should be scrapped and the process restarted from scratch. A Park and Recreation Board member who doesn’t want multiplexes in single-family neighborhoods. A woman who lives…
Short-term rentals are operating legally within Dallas neighborhoods while the matter is under legal injunction but the action approved by the City Council in June 2023 is punishing good operators and “isn’t working,” Councilman Chad West said during a Monday meeting of the Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture Committee. Last year the CIty Council…
Occasionally when someone brings up the “socialist city planners” who secretly crafted Dallas’ comprehensive land use plan update over witch’s brew, I’m reminded of something Nathaniel Barrett told me in August 2023. A 15-member panel of volunteers, the Comprehensive Land Use Plan Committee (CLUP), actually had significant input in drafting the ForwardDallas 2.0 plan as…
Jasmond Anderson, like many Dallas residents, has been closely following discussions about the city’s comprehensive land use plan. At one time in the not-so-distant past, he was seated at the horseshoe during those discussions. Anderson, CEO of a design-build development company, was the District 4 plan commissioner when ForwardDallas 2.0 first came under review in…
