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When the vote was taken on Sept. 25 to approve the ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan, a contingent of pro-housing officials and advocates was already teeing up the next big move to address affordable housing: accessory dwelling units. There was an early push in the ForwardDallas rewrite to allow ADUs “by right” as an…
Dallas Councilman Chad West is still following the money to find out why taxpayers are funding a truck terminal and pedestrian tunnels at Thanks-Giving Square. In an early September City Council meeting, West brought the subject up and received support from colleagues to remove an annual expenditure of about half a million dollars, tucking those…
Where is Andrew Espinoza now, a few months after his untimely departure as the Dallas chief building inspector? Well, he’s still in Dallas and he’s still faithfully reading CandysDirt.com. We caught up with Espinoza earlier this week and learned what led up to his abrupt exit from City Hall. In our exclusive interview, the former…
When news broke this summer that City of Dallas employees had to vacate the Stemmons office they’d just moved into over city code violations and a missing certificate of occupancy, the irony was not lost on others. However, some of the sharpest criticism for the widely-panned “lemon on Stemmons” came from within, when one municipal…
At last. The ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive plan was officially adopted and is now the guiding document for future land use in the ninth-largest city in America. A lot of ink has been spilled about what led up to the Dallas City Council’s 11-4 vote to pass the document on Sept. 25. As always, some golden…
