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.
There’s been some recent buzz about how the office responsible for issuing building permits had to vacate its new building because it didn’t have the proper permits. That’s not exactly how it went down, according to Assistant City Manager Majed Al-Ghafry, but the department — which has struggled recently to improve permit turnaround times and…
Developers with Ramrock Real Estate unveiled plans for redeveloping Preston Center West into a mixed-use concept with retail, office space, and 180 housing units — and insisted it’s compatible with the Northwest Highway/Preston Road Area Plan approved in 2017. About 70 people attended a community meeting Wednesday to express concerns about the proposal. Chief among…
A Dallas code amendment slated to go before the City Plan Commission this summer would eliminate minimum parking requirements for new development and improve walkability and bicycle safety, city planners said Tuesday. The code change also establishes a Transportation Demand Management Plan for qualifying project developers to “think comprehensively about their impact on transportation systems.” …
Southern Dallas homeowner Darryl Baker says Dallas is concentrating a lot of tax credit rental projects in the area where he lives, and it’s a misguided approach to an affordable housing crisis that doesn’t exist — at least in that particular area. Similar to Dallas shouldering the burden of housing the homeless for the entire…
Dallas has an expensive plan for reducing vehicle accidents at dangerous intersections, and they’ve set a goal of zero traffic fatalities by the year 2030. More than 35,000 vehicle crashes occurred in Dallas last year, and 199 involved fatalities. The Dallas City Council’s adopted Vision Zero plan aims to significantly lower those numbers. Director of…
