Dallas City Council
A new year signifies new beginnings, but in the City of Dallas, it also means revisiting some old things in need of an update. A case in point is the Dallas development code, which was paused while the Planning and Development Services Department focused a significant amount of resources and manpower on the ForwardDallas 2.0…
Some Dallasites have been waiting five years for the City’s parking code to be overhauled, so what’s another month or two, right? The City Plan Commission last week heard from 21 residents — all but two of whom voiced support for eliminating minimum parking requirements for new development — and determined they’d take up the…
An underutilized Dallas Area Rapid Transit parking lot is destined for a walkable mixed-use development with about 300 housing units, greenspace, and recreational opportunities. Southeast Dallas Councilmember Jaime Resendez liked the project — presented by local developer Palladium USA — so much that he promoted it in two languages from the horseshoe on Nov. 13. …
From Staff Reports A multifamily real estate developer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to bribing two former Dallas City Council members in exchange for support on loans and tax credits for affordable housing projects, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton announced this week. Sherman Roberts, 70, the former leader of City Wide…
From a church to a hotel and now a vacant historic icehouse, Proxy Properties owner A.J. Ramler is proving he’s unstoppable in his efforts to complete revitalization and adaptive reuse projects in Oak Cliff. The local developer was recently awarded about $2.7 million in tax increment financing funds to repurpose a 1915 icehouse into leasable…
