City of Dallas
You might say that Forward Dallas, the City of Dallas’s comprehensive land use plan, has fallen victim to a curse of bad timing. When a controversial — yet hypothetical — zoning idea overlapped a news cycle with the city’s comprehensive Forward Dallas plan, it seems the issues got conflated, says Andrea Gilles, the interim Director…
Read MoreIf you live in Dallas, you may not know about the ForwardDallas land use plan, but you’ve probably heard the rumor about that “zoning thing that will allow apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.” On this episode of the Dallas Dirt podcast, we bust that myth and several others about this city planning initiative, and trace…
Read MoreThe City of Dallas filed an appeal Dec. 26 asking a judge to reverse a temporary injunction allowing short-term rentals to operate while the matter is in litigation. We knew it would come to this. When the Dallas City Council voted 12 to 3 in June to prohibit short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods there was…
Read MoreDallas has a problem with history — it keeps trying to erase it. The latest target is Dealey Plaza. Preservation architect Norman Alston offers us a two-part history lesson which seems perfect on this particular day. Gratitude for our history is something we should all think about a little more. We hope you find this…
Read MoreAt the end of a lengthy day of briefings last week, city officials announced they would postpone Chief Information Officer Bill Zielinski’s after-action review on the ransomware attack that took down Dallas servers and gained access to the personal data of more than 30,000 users in May. The postponement of Wednesday’s briefing also prompted the…
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