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By Cara Mendelsohn District 12 Dallas City Councilmember Early voting for the Dallas Bond 2024 starts next week, Monday, April 22, running through April 30. Election day is May 4th. There are ten propositions, or topics, and you can vote “for” or “against” each one. Together, the amounts of each proposition total $1.25 billion dollars.…
The City Plan Commission kicked off a series of workshops last week on the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan. They talked about density, placetypes, and parking requirements — and they acknowledged the plan has not been well-received by a contingent of residents who are concerned it will change or even destroy their long-established single-family neighborhoods. …
Elected officials and Dallas leaders are revitalizing their commitment to housing and economic development in underserved areas. Mayor Pro Tem Carolyn King Arnold would probably say she’s not revitalizing that commitment; it never diminished. But discussions about breathing life into southern Dallas appear to have ramped up lately as bond projects are slated and new…
There’s been some recent buzz about how the office responsible for issuing building permits had to vacate its new building because it didn’t have the proper permits. That’s not exactly how it went down, according to Assistant City Manager Majed Al-Ghafry, but the department — which has struggled recently to improve permit turnaround times and…
A Dallas code amendment slated to go before the City Plan Commission this summer would eliminate minimum parking requirements for new development and improve walkability and bicycle safety, city planners said Tuesday. The code change also establishes a Transportation Demand Management Plan for qualifying project developers to “think comprehensively about their impact on transportation systems.” …
