ForwardDallas
Voters spoke at the ballot box in November by demanding transparency and accountability from their elected officials, and there’s little doubt they’ll show up again in May when up to 10 sitting council members will be vying for another term at the horseshoe. Residents saw this year how their voices mattered. They showed up en…
The past year brought us two big elections: a $1.25 billion bond issue in May and 17 charter amendments in November. We saw residents storm City Hall over zoning cases, erroneously issued building permits, and a conservation district proposal. A city manager left Marilla Street and several high-ranking officials followed him to Austin. But nothing…
This episode of Dallas Dirt is seemingly a little different. Lately, we’ve been interviewing real estate leaders, city council members, and real estate developers, but our guest this week is John Botefuhr — an East Dallas resident who’s been on several citizen advisory boards for projects spanning from Vision Garland Road to a Deep Ellum…
Throughout the process of developing and revising the ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan, city officials repeatedly asked for public input and echoed the mantra, “We hear you.” So when Bishop Arts resident and former WFAA journalist William Joy read the plan and found a glitch, he reached out to City Hall. In Joy’s case,…
When the vote was taken on Sept. 25 to approve the ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan, a contingent of pro-housing officials and advocates was already teeing up the next big move to address affordable housing: accessory dwelling units. There was an early push in the ForwardDallas rewrite to allow ADUs “by right” as an…
