Tennell Atkins
This week’s City Hall roundup is going to focus on the latest black eyes at the Dallas Department of Planning & Development, which handles permitting, zoning, urban design, and other development-related responsibilities. Staff at the department had a rough go of it last week when some of its costly blunders made headlines, earning the city…
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…
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…
Perhaps one of the spiciest debates of late among Dallas City Council members occurred Wednesday as residents of Southeast Oak Cliff’s Floral Farms — where “Shingle Mountain” once stood — were finally granted a rezoning that will prohibit new heavy industrial uses on a large tract of primarily undeveloped land near their homes. Referred to…
Three public “meet and greets” to introduce the Dallas city manager finalists are set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, at Dallas City Hall, 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11 at Singing Hills Recreation Center, and 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, at Fretz Recreation Center. Just three candidates are on the shortlist and a lot of…
