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Elected and appointed officials have spent years working on ForwardDallas 2.0, an update of the city’s comprehensive land use plan. Residents in each of Dallas’ geographic districts have gotten savvy to the technical aspects of the document and lobbied for their causes at town halls and City Plan Commission meetings. Is the rubber about to…
The City of Dallas has had a rocky road lately with Family Gateway, an emergency shelter and resource center for the homeless — or more accurately, the downtown building that formerly housed Family Gateway and their new location, too. Last fall, the nonprofit organization returned the city-owned property at 711 S. St. Paul St. in…
Not much was accomplished in Tuesday’s Economic Development Committee meeting, but good questions were asked and dramatic sound bites abound for the City’s controversial ForwardDallas 2.0. Dallas City Council members on the Economic Development Committee discussed the proposed comprehensive land use plan — and if, or how it will affect existing single-family neighborhoods. The accusations went…
Months ago, some City Hall spectators predicted that the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan would be kicked down the road indefinitely, delayed until after the May 2025 municipal elections. That’s still a possibility, but while the plan could be adopted as early as September, the final version may look drastically different than today’s draft. The…
A long-awaited briefing on Public Facility Corporation projects is scheduled Monday at 9 a.m. before the Dallas City Council’s Housing and Homeless Solutions Committee. The presentation has been postponed several times leaving many in the dark about whether the mixed-income housing projects add value to city coffers and housing stock. “Months ago, I asked staff…
