Dallas City Council
The Dallas City Council is going to consider eliminating a mechanism residents currently have to automatically delay rezoning cases. In Dallas, any rezoning request triggers mandatory public notification of property owners within a range of 200 feet of the project to ensure community awareness and participation in the development process. That notification comes in the…
Dallas City Council members were sworn in on Monday to begin their two-year terms at the helm of the Lone Star State’s second-biggest city, and boy do they have a lot on their plate. Between a tough budget planning season, significant zoning reforms to navigate, a confounding city real estate portfolio bursting at the seams,…
The real estate consulting firm Masterplan has been a mainstay in Dallas for roughly two generations, and until about three years ago, it belonged to the well-known Cothrum family. Now, the brand is back in family hands. Masterplan ran the gamut when it came to local development consulting, offering services related to permit-expediting, zoning, entitlements,…
Big cities like Dallas are poised to see more multifamily housing built, assuming the enactment of SB 840, which will allow developers to bypass rezoning when building multifamily or certain mixed-use projects on land zoned for commercial use. The senate bill, written by Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola), received bipartisan support in both chambers of the…
An infamous local affordable housing developer previously convicted on federal bribery charges secured an acquittal in his retrial on Thursday, with jurors siding with the defense’s argument that the defendant didn’t break federal law when he paid two Dallas City Council members tens of thousands of dollars. Ruel Hamilton, who until his indictment was best…
