Kathy Stewart
Well, there’s a whole lot to run down this Labor Day weekend. Dallas City Hall’s budget business is chugging along, and the operational framework of local government for the next two years is taking shape. Hopefully the weather hasn’t been putting too much of a damper on anyone’s plans this holiday weekend, but if so,…
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,…
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…
City staff got put in the hot seat on Monday during a meeting of the Dallas Economic Development Committee, during which the controversial subject of parking reform was discussed. As previously reported by CandysDirt.com, Dallas’s City Plan Commission (CPC) advanced a measure that would eliminate or decrease the minimum parking spaces that developers are required…
From Staff Reports After a deadly high-speed crash on Abrams Road intensified calls for traffic safety improvements, Lake Highlands residents will have the opportunity to voice their concerns at a community meeting tomorrow. Councilmember Kathy Stewart is hosting the traffic safety discussion at 6 p.m. March 19 at Forest Meadow Middle School (9373 Whitehurst Dr.),…
