Chad West
Dallas leaders recently took on the tasks of overhauling a 35-year-old development code, drafting a comprehensive future land use map, and digitizing boxes of paper records. It’s a long, arduous process, but the end result will be well worth it, according to the city’s director of planning and urban design. Julia Ryan has worked in…
Dallas builders have high hopes that a new program will get them in and out of the city permitting office and back to swinging a hammer in a 24-hour period. The early response to a new program offering “walk-in permits,” set to launch Sept. 1, is a far cry from the highly-criticized permitting debacle that’s…
It took a village — and a new permitting chief — to make a dent in the backlog of paperwork as Dallas builders try to get their permits processed. But the problem is far from solved, officials said this week. And along the way, builders have shed light on another problem that’s plagued Dallas for…
Arts Mission Oak Cliff usually hosts a different kind of show, but the dance between development and preservation in the neighborhood illustrated by our “Alternatives to Demolition” panel discussion was just as riveting. CandysDirt.com, Heritage Oak Cliff, and Preservation Dallas brought together people from Oak Cliff with developers, preservationists, and city staff for a discussion…
This post has been updated. Several readers reached out to us about two blocks of W. 8th Street between Llewellyn and Madison that appear to be fenced off to prepare for imminent demolition. Only when I contacted District 1 City Council Member Chad West, his office staff confirmed that no permit had been pulled for…
