Dallas City Council
All eyes were on the Dallas City Plan Commission this week as the panel voted to define short-term rentals as a lodging use, thus banning the properties from single-family residential neighborhoods. Plan commissioners, who made the decision in a 10-4 vote following a nine-hour public hearing, said they didn’t take the matter lightly. Some said…
The Plano City Council last week delayed action on short-term rentals but heard from residents and the city’s neighborhood services director about plans to model an ordinance after the one adopted in Arlington. Short-term rentals dominated the news in Dallas during the summer months, but the debate cooled as the city entered its budget process. …
When you start doing the math it really adds up. The Dallas City Council authorized almost half a million dollars last month for legislative consultants. Another $306,704 was recently funneled to TDA Consulting Inc., to gather community input and draft a revised version of the city’s Comprehensive Housing Policy, and $100,000 to Community Equity Strategies, a…
Do you think you have a stressful job? Try being Andrew Espinoza. Dallas’s director of Development Services basically holds the keys to the city’s future growth and development, and it’s currently at a near-standstill due to a problem created before he was hired according to city council members on Wednesday. It seemed the cavalry had…
Dallas Love Field is booming with activity, and not everyone is happy about it. Enplanements and revenues have increased to near-pre-pandemic levels, Director of Aviation Mark Duebner told the Dallas City Council last week. That’s a good thing, right? Not exactly. Residents of Briarwood, Bluffview, Love Field West, Elm Thicket, and even Highland Park say…
