Dallas
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…
In areas long served by wells and septic tanks, the promise of access to city utilities has been just out of reach. However, that could change — and fast — as the City of Dallas moves aggressively to bring water and sewer service to these areas. In a Wednesday briefing, Dallas Water Utilities Director Terry…
Dallas leaders are restructuring the city’s housing policy while weaving in facets of the Racial Equity Plan, and the process has been likened to eating an elephant one bite at a time. Officials discussed during a Dec. 13 Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee meeting what’s being done to revise the existing policy and how it…
