City of Dallas
From Staff Reports After years of litigation and two unsuccessful attempts in both district and appellate courts to ban short-term rentals (STRs) from single-family neighborhoods, the City of Dallas is still not giving up its fight. The City has appealed the Feb. 7 decision from the Dallas Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in which Senior…
Where is Andrew Espinoza now, a few months after his untimely departure as the Dallas chief building inspector? Well, he’s still in Dallas and he’s still faithfully reading CandysDirt.com. We caught up with Espinoza earlier this week and learned what led up to his abrupt exit from City Hall. In our exclusive interview, the former…
Once again the future of Dallas short-term rentals is clear as mud. Here’s a brief history of the timeline to date. The Dallas City Council in June 2023 banned short-term rentals in single-family neighborhoods, providing a six-month deadline for operators to ensure they were in compliance or shut down. The Dallas Short Term Rental Alliance…
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…
If 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…
