South Edgefield
Editor’s Note: The Clarendon/Edgefield zoning change referenced below is a “downzone” that affects seven commercial properties. Under the current zoning, apartments can be built up to four stories. The height would be limited by the overlay, which follows the unanimously approved West Oak Cliff Area Plan. By Suzanne FelberCandysDirt.com Contributor When I moved back to…
A North Oak Cliff neighborhood once featured in the Tom Cruise movie Born on the Fourth of July scored a big win last week toward preserving its small-town charm. The Dallas City Council unanimously approved a rezoning that will carve out an area of Elmwood as a walkable urban mixed-use district. District boundaries extend along…
Woody Brodie Jr.’s South Edgefield neighbors say they’re hoping this holiday season that no news is good news. Brodie was in an accident several years ago and can’t communicate verbally, but he knows there’s trouble with the title to his home and that shady investors want him out. Brodie actually owns two homes on Nolte…
We began researching about a month ago potential options for a disabled Dallas resident who is being threatened by investors to sell his home for less than market value or be reported to Code Compliance. Plenty of Dallas homeowners have told us they get the calls, texts, and emails. They mark them as spam and…
The West Oak Cliff Area Plan came about through years of public input and rewrites, billed as a way to protect residents and their property rights, taking those rights back from developers. Now some South Edgefield residents — whose homes are adjacent to the WOCAP area — say it’s being used as a tool to…
