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.
Tighter guardrails for homeowners’ associations, periodic reauthorization of municipal building permit fees, and the creation and maintenance of tax appraisal databases for each jurisdiction are among the new laws that became effective Jan. 1. While the Texas Legislature doesn’t return to session until January 2025, that doesn’t mean lawmakers get to take a year off.…
The final Dallas City Council meeting of 2023 was a long one, and a rezoning request for a Dallas megachurch got lost in the shuffle amidst hours of debate over daycare facilities and permitting fees. The discussion about Watermark Community Church only lasted about 20 minutes during the Dec. 13 council meeting. Dallas elected officials…
Before you get angry, literally no one — not the interim planning and urban design director nor District 1 Councilman Chad West — is proposing that single-family zoning be abolished citywide in Dallas. But one major U.S. municipality did just that, and a few years into the movement that allowed duplexes and triplexes to be…
There was no shortage of people to write about on the Dallas City Hall beat at CandysDirt.com this year. It was a year of cyberattacks, lawsuits, and an exodus of high-ranking Dallas housing employees. We also saw the advent of noteworthy projects and the emergence of many local rising stars. Reporters at CandysDirt.com continued to ask…
The City of Fort Worth is the fastest-growing municipality in Texas and city leaders say they’re struggling with gentrification, displacement, and a lack of attainable, affordable housing. Fort Worth influencers gathered Dec. 6 to discuss the topic as part of the Fort Worth Report’s “Candid Conversations” series. Unfortunately, the conversation happened in the same week…
