South Edgefield

Elmwood Residents Successfully Petition For Walkable Urban Mixed-Use District

By April Towery / March 6, 2024 /

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…

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Woody Brodie Jr. is Still in His North Oak Cliff Home on Nolte Drive, Still Looking For a Miracle

By April Towery / December 28, 2023 /

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…

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Elmwood Anti-Displacement Fight is Far From Over, Residents Say Dallas Needs to Help Elderly And Disabled

By April Towery / September 11, 2023 /

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…

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Could ForwardDallas Clean up The Messy Planning And Zoning Challenges in Oak Cliff?

By April Towery / September 4, 2023 /

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…

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More South Edgefield Neighbors Join Fight to Keep Disabled Resident in His Family Home

By April Towery / August 28, 2023 /

Let’s be clear. There’s nothing illegal about an investor, developer, or home flipper contacting a homeowner with hopes of purchasing a property and repurposing it.  A problem arises, however, when predatory investors seek out the elderly or disabled and trick them into making the sale at well below market value under threat of eviction or…

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