Dallas City Council
Street and drainage projects aren’t sexy, Dallas leaders can agree, but they’re prepared to give the people what they need in the $1 billion 2024 bond election next May. The Dallas City Council heard from a small sample of residents (about 100 per each of the 14 council districts) in a community survey that infrastructure…
The proposed City of Dallas budget won’t be unveiled until Aug. 8, but a 72-page Dallas City Council presentation is giving penny-pinching taxpayers plenty to digest in the interim. Chief Financial Officer Jack Ireland reviewed the 2023-24 and 2024-25 budget and responded to general questions during a June 21 briefing. The City Council adopted a…
A former Dallas city planner came out swinging last week at a $2 million consulting contract to overhaul the city’s zoning code. Properly-executed code rewrites cost up to $25 million, District 14 resident and former Dallas planner LaKisha Girder told the City Council at a June 14 meeting. A halfhearted, piecemeal approach won’t work when…
When the polls closed on Saturday, May 6, Kathy Stewart was ready to roll. Her first order of business as the council member elected outright to represent Lake Highlands was no small task: take a deep dive into the city budget and housing crisis. Stewart sat through a marathon council meeting on June 14 with…
Infrastructure and crime prevention are the priorities among a small percentage of Dallas residents who responded to a 2023 community survey, city officials said Wednesday. A decrease in local satisfaction was reported in access to quality affordable housing, but the matter — while charting high in cities nationwide — did not make the top three…
