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The City of Dallas dropped its proposed 2024-25 budget Friday night, and it’s a big one. The $4.97 billion budget prioritizes public safety and service delivery, Interim City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert said in an email to local media Friday night. Tolbert also is proposing the largest single-year property tax reduction in modern history, a…
In a memorandum filed Friday afternoon, Interim City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert announced that the Planning and Urban Design Department and Development Services Department will combine as the Planning and Development Department. Under Emily Liu‘s leadership, new assignments include Planning Deputy Director Andrea Gilles, Zoning Deputy Director Andreea Udrea, Permitting Interim Deputy Director and Chief…
The climate at Dallas City Hall has been cloudy with a lot of employee departures, and administrators sent a strong message that they like the current direction of the Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization Department. After conducting a national search, an internal candidate with almost 18 years at the City of Dallas was selected as the…
Following a months-long search, an internal candidate was named Dallas’ director of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization on Thursday. Longtime city employee Cynthia Rogers-Ellickson has served as the interim director since David Noguera submitted his resignation in September. Noguera left the City of Dallas to work for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in…
Occasionally I’m asked why a real estate news site covers Dallas City Hall. Shouldn’t we stick to what CandysDirt.com has done best since 2011: celebrity real estate, luxury listings, and “house porn”? I began freelancing for CandysDirt.com in 2019, writing a weekly feature on open houses. In 2022, as the redistricting process was heating up…
