Behind the Pink Wall

Quickie Meeting on High-Rise Plans Behind the Pink Wall: On It

By Candy Evans / February 6, 2019 /

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The PD-15 Saga Continues as City Staff Presents Recommendations

By Jon Anderson / January 8, 2019 /

The original, decades-old PD-15 documentation is faulted for its lack of clarity. Unfortunately, the new document reflecting city staff’s recommendations has its own issues with clarity (Draft PD and Presentation).  You will recall that last November, Council Member Jennifer Gates sent the second neighborhood committee home after being bogged down a second time by non-negotiable…

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Gates Takes Exception to Laura Miller’s Pink Wall Op-Ed, Both Take to Twitter

By Bethany Erickson / December 10, 2018 /
Pink Wall

Sunday may be a day of rest, but it seems that journalists, politicians, and Twitter never really rest, and that was borne out yesterday when Dallas city councilmember Jennifer Gates took to Twitter to air her feelings about a recent op-ed about Preston Center traffic woes that former Mayor and Preston Hollow resident Laura Miller…

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PD-15 Meeting 9: Promising Prior Meeting Returned to Free-Range Roots

By Jon Anderson / October 26, 2018 /

Attention developers! Forget LinkedIn — if you’re looking for accountants and financial analysts anxious to help you avoid monetary missteps, look no further than the PD-15 authorized hearing steering committee. Sure, they’re (very) long in the tooth, but last night’s meeting showcased a half hour of endless financial advice and “deep” research into how precisely…

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PD-15 Meeting 8: The Cats Are Beginning To Herd, But Not Without Angst

By Jon Anderson / October 11, 2018 /

There’s a bit of a special language being formulated between the Authorized Hearing committee members. For example, when the city facilitator recaps a prior discussion by saying, “We agreed on X,” a committee member or two will pipe up “We didn’t agree on that.”  What they really mean is they didn’t. And since they didn’t agree,…

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