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.
Following a lengthy debate over how to divvy up funds on a May 4 bond election ballot, Dallas City Council members agreed Wednesday to let voters decide on the following amended proposals: The deteriorating Dallas City Hall and Stemmons Municipal Center propositions remain at $0 and were deleted from the ordinance. Some discussion occurred around how…
More and more cities are recognizing that the best way to bring affordable housing to the neighborhoods that need it most is to make their own rules. That’s just what the Fort Worth City Council did when they adopted a resolution prohibiting local developers from opting out of building affordable housing in Neighborhood Empowerment Zones. The…
The “unicorn lot” at 3104 Fairmount Street could become a liquor store, but not if members of the Oak Lawn Committee have their way. More than 100 Uptown-area residents and business owners joined a Feb. 6 meeting of the Oak Lawn Committee via Zoom to discuss a Specific Use Permit request for the site at…
We get it. The ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan only informs zoning; it doesn’t assign it or regulate it. It’s not necessarily about housing, affordable or otherwise. It’s simply a guiding vision document that creates “placetypes” based on what kind of development should generally occur within the city limits. So why is everybody so mad…
The Dallas City Council is expected to vote Feb. 28 on a code update to protect historic homes from demolition when they fall into disrepair. Neighborhoods such as Southern Dallas’ historic Tenth Street are watching closely. A code amendment would repeal a 2010 ordinance that they say has had a disproportionately negative impact on Black…
