Chad West
A North Oak Cliff neighborhood once featured in the Tom Cruise movie Born on the Fourth of July scored a big win last week toward preserving its small-town charm. The Dallas City Council unanimously approved a rezoning that will carve out an area of Elmwood as a walkable urban mixed-use district. District boundaries extend along…
Mention the words “multi-family” and “rezoning” around any North Texas homeowner and you might take cover for the fireworks. Those words are hot on the lips of some Dallas residents right now, who say they want to protect the integrity of their neighborhoods — and are voicing their concern to their elected city council members.…
In a move that some suggested was putting the cart before the horse, the City of Dallas hired an architect to design permanent supportive housing at the old Hotel Miramar — but an operator for the building has not yet been selected. The Dallas City Council approved a $536,186 contract with Kirksey Architecture on Feb.…
Experts weighed in recently on introducing higher-density development in single-family neighborhoods and talked about how the city can be more effective in planning for the future as the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan inches closer to a July adoption date. MetroTex Association of Realtors requested a presentation on the “Economics of Land Use” from Joe…
The 2024 bond propositions that will appear on a May 4 ballot didn’t shake out favorably for every advocacy group, but a $75 million pot of “discretionary funds” — $5 million for the mayor and each council member to allocate as they wish — means the numbers informally approved at Wednesday’s council meeting can still…
