Chad West
Throughout the process of developing and revising the ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan, city officials repeatedly asked for public input and echoed the mantra, “We hear you.” So when Bishop Arts resident and former WFAA journalist William Joy read the plan and found a glitch, he reached out to City Hall. In Joy’s case,…
At a small gathering of the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce this month, Dallas planning staff updated business leaders on five authorized hearings that came out of the West Oak Cliff Area Plan — and shared the findings of a task force report that identified opportunities for redevelopment and pedestrian safety issues. Some of the…
When the West Oak Cliff Area Plan — a plan to give displacement-vulnerable residents more control over new development in their neighborhood — was unanimously approved in September 2022, it was clear that change was coming and not everyone would embrace it. Slowly but surely, the public meetings in an authorized hearing area that includes…
Local real estate developer Christian Chernock has two zoning cases pending before the City Plan Commission on which he serves. The question his fellow plan commissioners will be charged with determining next month isn’t one of ethics or personal integrity, Chernock told CandysDirt.com. It’s whether hotels are an appropriate land use for the touristy Bishop…
From a once-pristine building that was overtaken by squatters to a multimillion-dollar structure intended to house code inspectors but wasn’t up to code, the City of Dallas has failed in its efforts to manage 5,800 real estate assets, council members agreed at a recent committee meeting. Director of Facilities and Real Estate John Johnson reviewed…
