Redistricting
Planning nerds rejoiced last month when the highly-anticipated Far West Oak Cliff report went live. Perhaps that’s an exaggeration. It’s me. I rejoiced. I’m the planning nerd. The 55-page Far West Oak Cliff Task Force Report is not an area plan or a binding document but reveals some solid ideas for neighborhood, commercial, and corridor…
The Dallas City Council was poised Wednesday to authorize expenditures at Dallas Love Field totaling about half a million dollars, but one of the items was deferred to April 12 — and elected officials are still not talking about the “unbearable” noise complaints that have been raised by neighbors for more than a year. The…
Fourteen Dallas City Council seats and the mayor’s gavel are up for grabs at the horseshoe on May 6, and today is the first day you can file candidate paperwork with the city secretary’s office. This could be an interesting election season as the coming May election is the first for the City of Dallas’…
A lot happened at Dallas City Hall in 2022 — some good and some that led us to shake our heads and say, “Sounds like a 2023 problem.” We at CandysDirt.com were challenged in narrowing it down to the biggest eight stories to come out of Dallas City Hall this year. City Manager T.C. Broadnax…
The Dallas City Council has until June 29 to make a decision on how the city’s 14 districts will be divided, and it appears they’re going to wait until the last minute. After making little headway in a June 8 session, the council is set to take a final vote on the matter during a…
