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.
Residents of Oak Cliff’s Stevens Park Village held their fourth pre-application meeting Wednesday in an effort to protect their neighborhood with a conservation district. The “Villagers” have a long road ahead, but a strong resolve to get a draft ordinance to the finish line. Neighborhood conservation districts have become a popular topic as the City…
In a memorandum filed Friday afternoon, Interim City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert announced that the Planning and Urban Design Department and Development Services Department will combine as the Planning and Development Department. Under Emily Liu‘s leadership, new assignments include Planning Deputy Director Andrea Gilles, Zoning Deputy Director Andreea Udrea, Permitting Interim Deputy Director and Chief…
Double your pleasure with an updated three-bedroom, four-bathroom townhome at the foot of the Katy Trail. This rare double townhome is super spacious, has all the amenities, and is in a perfect location between Victory Park, Downtown, and Uptown. At $4.7 million, the property at 2935 Magnolia Hill Court definitely earns its spot among luxury…
A casual observer at Monday’s City Plan Commission meeting might think the panel’s compromise — an agreement of sorts to discourage developers from building multiplexes in the midst of single-family neighborhoods — would be met with cheers from the crowd so adamantly opposed to previous iterations of the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan. They’d be…
Builders of Hope and their partners have been conducting community engagement in West Dallas for over a year asking neighbors what kind of assistance they need to stay in the legacy homes that have been in their families for generations. The answer they get most frequently is property tax relief. Stephanie Champion, an attorney and…
