South Oak Cliff
Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins is term-limited but his former appointed Plan Commissioner Lorie Blair is running to take his seat. Blair is up against retiree Ruth Steward, Realtor Erik Wilson, low voltage technician Eugene Ralph, and former candidates Subrina Lynn Brenham and Davante Peters. As a real estate-focused news outlet, CandysDirt.com is asking candidates about the housing issues their district neighborhoods face — and…
Dallas ISD trustee Maxie Johnson, educator Avis Hardaman, and Dallas County Sheriff’s Department employee Kebran W. Alexander are vying for the District 4 seat held by Carolyn King Arnold, who is term-limited. Despite a proposition approved by voters in November making Arnold ineligible to seek another term, she filed paperwork but was not qualified by the city secretary. Landers M. Isom III…
The Dallas Plan Commission moved forward last week with a proposal for a mixed-use development with up to 1,400 market-rate housing units on the east side of South R.L. Thornton Freeway, south of East Overton Road. Despite opposition from an adjacent developer, represented by Masterplan land use consultant Dallas Cothrum, and a request to hold…
Less than a month after the ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan was approved — following an intense debate over the protection of single-family neighborhoods — preservationists are championing duplexes in a historic district. At an Oct. 7 meeting of the Dallas HIstoric Landmark Commission, the panel heard proposals for three duplexes in the Tenth…
If you’ve been to a Dallas City Council meeting in the past year, you’ve heard Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Carolyn King Arnold talk about the food desert in southern Dallas. You’ve heard her say that she has to take dignitaries to the International House of Pancakes for business meetings. You’ve heard her say that the…
