Neighborhoods
This coming February, the Dallas City Council will revisit requiring a Special Use Permit for neighborhood childcare facilities in single-family areas. A public hearing on the matter was held Dec. 13, at which council members heard from a few residents who don’t like the idea of businesses operating near their homes. Council members also heard…
Over allegations of racism and NIMBY-ism and debates about property rights and religious freedom, the Addison City Council unanimously approved a Special Use Permit Dec. 4, allowing the White Rock Chapel to continue holding church services in a residential neighborhood on Celestial Road. The historic Black church was established by freed slaves in 1884, said…
A $500,000 skate park in the Glencoe Park neighborhood could appear on the 2024 bond election ballot, and strong opinions about the project have been fired from both sides of the issue. The big issue? The proposed Glencoe Skate Park is in the middle of a residential neighborhood. A large pro-skate community exists in Dallas,…
Trees offer tons of benefits — from shade to environmental advantages to aesthetics — but it’s also within a developer’s rights to cut them down to make way for new buildings. Residents in Elm Thicket/Northpark told CandysDirt.com in September that the canopies that used to line their streets have gone by the wayside as new development…
Almost a year has passed since Elm Thicket/Northpark residents fought City Hall to preserve the character of their historic Freedman’s neighborhood. The residents won their battle to limit the size and height of new construction, but you wouldn’t know it by taking a drive through the area bound by Lemmon Avenue, Lovers Lane, Inwood Road,…
