Oak Lawn
In today’s D Frontburner blog, I traced the trail of Angela Hunt’s transition from District 14’s city council advocate battling inappropriate development in Oak Lawn to being an emissary for developers. Here, I want to explore the Lincoln Katy Trail project where Hunt is representing Lincoln Property. (Click here for Frontburner article) It’s important to…
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Last night, city council member Philip Kingston spoke at The Mansion in an attempt to bring clarity to the Toll Brothers project. Unfortunately, after a good start, he failed to seal the deal. Kingston presented the big picture on the project – namely that Toll Brothers is completely within their rights to build a high-rise…
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Amid all the brouhaha about the negative connotations surrounding some monuments, one Dallas monument with a positive message needs our help. The Legacy of Love monument has resided at the corner of Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road since 2006. Y’all know where I mean — that triangle of land resulting from the…
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Often developers show up to the Oak Lawn Committee looking for approval for a proposed project before hitting Dallas’ City Plan Commission and council. But sometimes they just need a little help. Last night’s OLC meeting was a little of both. The first of three cases revolved around a project that had been blessed a…
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The fate of the proposed Toll Brothers high-rise in Oak Lawn remains stalled for another month. A bus load of Plaza residents showed up to voice their concerns without actually admitting their issue is view blockage and that the rest was just a smoke screen. Several gave themselves away in saying that a midrise would…
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