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City Hall Roundup: North Oak Cliff Residents Oppose Increase in Beds at Fort Worth Avenue Homeless Housing Development

By April Towery / June 2, 2024 /

The City of Dallas has spent almost four years trying to repurpose a vacant motel into permanent supportive housing, and with a new architect on board and a permit pending City Council approval, it looks like it might finally happen.  Not everyone is happy about it.  The City Plan Commission recommended approval of a specific…

Thousands of Dallas Employee Emails Scanned For Insight on Stemmons Building Challenges

By April Towery / May 31, 2024 /

More than 5,600 emails were scanned this month in an effort to determine whether Dallas Development Services employees were concerned for their safety while working at the Stemmons Building that had numerous fire code violations.  The investigation resulted in just five emails from employees who used keywords to describe conditions at the Stemmons Freeway building,…

Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson Tapped to Lead Dallas Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization

By April Towery / May 28, 2024 /

Following a months-long search, an internal candidate was named Dallas’ director of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization on Thursday. Longtime city employee Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson has served as the interim director since David Noguera submitted his resignation in September. Noguera left the City of Dallas to work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in…

Dallas Bond Project Prioritization List Slated For Release in June

By April Towery / May 28, 2024 /

The ballots are counted and a project list totaling $1.25 billion now sits on the desk of Dallas Bond and Construction Management Director Jenny Nicewander. There are more than 800 bond projects that mean a lot to the voters who approved them and their elected council members — and everyone wants their project to go…

Plan Commissioners Spar Over Multiplexes in ForwardDallas’ Community Residential Placetype

By April Towery / May 27, 2024 /

The revised ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan is a long way from consensus but plan commissioners continued an intense conversation earlier this month on how they can hone in on providing more quality housing options within the widely debated Community Residential placetype.  City Plan Commission Vice Chair Brent Rubin suggested during a May 16…