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.
Some Dallas permit fees will double or triple starting May 1, and industry leaders say those rate hikes will be passed on to home buyers. Dallas Development Services officials say the increased fees were necessary to prevent the department from hemorrhaging money. The Dallas Development Services Department collects about $28 million in revenue each year,…
Just one week after Dallas plan commissioners said they didn’t want a watered-down ForwardDallas land use plan, residents showed up en masse at a public meeting to say they won’t stand for anything that threatens the integrity of their single-family neighborhoods. During almost three hours of testimony on April 18, city plan commissioners also heard…
Residents and developers are invited to weigh in today and tomorrow on a proposed Dallas development code change that would limit impervious coverage for residential and nonresidential development. Impervious coverage, according to the City of Dallas, is any surface that prevents or substantially impedes the natural infiltration of stormwater into the ground, and includes, but…
The Dallas City Council gave the green light earlier this month to Bonton Gardens, a new multifamily development in Southern Dallas. A complicated development agreement included approving the sale of two Land Transfer Program lots to CityBuild Community Development Corporation and revoking a previous agreement with Notre Dame Place Inc. The project is proposed to…
It’s been a long road to procure more than 800 projects for a $1.25 billion bond election, and a final judgment will be made at the polls on May 4. Early voting on the Dallas bond election begins Monday and runs through April 30. CandysDirt.com has covered the 2024 bond election extensively, particularly how the…
