City Plan Commission
Some Dallas City Council members were ready last month to take a vote once and for all on whether short-term rental homes could continue operating within residential neighborhoods. It didn’t happen. In fact, the council gave city staff a lot more work to do, prompting City Manager T.C. Broadnax to suggest that staff prepare another…
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Editor’s Note: A Dallas City Council agenda for the Tuesday, April 4, meeting was posted late Friday and includes a presentation on short-term rentals. One of the biggest campaign issues of the Dallas City Council election cycle could be decided before early voting begins. Council members have discussed, debated, and deferred decisions on short-term rentals…
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A North Dallas evangelical megachurch’s plan to add a youth development center, healthcare clinic, and commercial kitchen has been deferred by the Dallas City Plan Commission to April 20. Watermark Community Church has owned the 190,000-square-foot Pearl C. Anderson Middle School at 3400 Garden Lane and the surrounding 9.8 acres in Dallas City Council District…
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The ever-growing list of items deferred to 2023 is now facing a panel of Dallas City Council members, the majority of whom are seeking re-election. One such item is Zoning Case No. 22-2168. The site in question is an Extended Stay America Hotel that’s been a hotbed of criminal activity on the north side of…
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A lot happened at Dallas City Hall in 2022 — some good and some that led us to shake our heads and say, “Sounds like a 2023 problem.” We at CandysDirt.com were challenged in narrowing it down to the biggest eight stories to come out of Dallas City Hall this year. City Manager T.C. Broadnax…
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