City Plan Commission
Why is it so rare for Dallas to ever truly say “no” to developer-led upzoning? It always seems most often to be “yes, but …” And while I’m all for a good negotiation, if you enter a negotiation where the other side knows you’re unlikely to really say “no,” then it’s not really a negotiation,…
By Barbara Dewberry Guest Contributor Last week in a CandysDirt.com column, Jon Anderson stated in reference to the Jennifer Gates called community meeting on August 7th that I said that, “the neighborhood doesn’t want green space.” In fact, I said “We don’t want a public park,” and many people heard this. The four acres that are…
Will the city stop playing politics and do what’s right to help the Pink Wall’s PD-15 get the update it deserves? Beginning in April 2018, city staff ran the Authorized Hearing process working with the Pink Wall’s PD-15 committee. The Authorized Hearing process, whereby the city oversees a community response to zoning changes, was kicked…
If traffic and density are supposedly the issues most feared by PD-15 development, we need an accurate measuring stick to insert reality into the discussion. The coming traffic study will do that, but … In the fullness of time, I started to think about one of the tidbits from last week’s PD-15 meeting with City…
Development, specifically the Pink Wall’s PD-15 and Saint Michael and All Angels’ plans for Frederick Square, are the crux of the District 13 city council race between incumbent Jennifer Gates and former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller. Sure, there are other nitpicks that include the Preston Center garage swizzled in, but that’s just a sideshow. On…
