Dallas
The Dallas City Council on Wednesday approved a comprehensive urban agriculture plan with the aim of increasing the acreage of neighborhood growing sites and providing access to healthy, local food. Objectives outlined in the Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan could serve equity priority areas with high minority populations by increasing the acreage of local growing sites…
Streets will take priority in the 2024 Dallas bond package, officials announced during a briefing last week. Jennifer Nicewander, interim director of Bond and Construction Management, said the city is forecasting a $1 billion bond election, but needs totaling at least $14 billion have been identified. Therefore, the City Council is tasked with prioritizing and…
Dallas City Council members will take a first look this month at plans for a 2024 bond program that could fund about $1 billion worth of projects. But residents looking for specific projects on the ballot may have to be patient. Preliminary discussions held at the committee level last month focused on how much a…
More than $22 million in grant funding was awarded for District 4 streets and sidewalks, Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Carolyn King Arnold announced last month. The funds are courtesy of the North Central Texas Council of Governments, an organization by and for local governments established to assist in regional planning. The grant announcement comes at…
Another round of ForwardDallas workshops kicks off at the end of January as the city seeks to guide future development, preserve neighborhoods, and address equity. Online sessions are planned to solicit feedback from homeowners, business owners, the nonprofit sector, the development community, and environmental justice advocates. The comprehensive land use plan ForwardDallas was adopted in…
