West Oak Cliff Area Plan

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…

Disabled South Edgefield Resident’s Plight Shows How Shady Investors Are Harassing Homeowners

By April Towery / August 21, 2023 /

A disabled South Edgefield resident whose parents died recently has a title and a will deeding their homes to him but fights a daily battle with real estate investors who want to buy the properties for less than market value.  Sometimes they claim that Durwood “Woody” Brodie Jr.’s homes were signed over to them by…

For Dallas City Council District 1, Community Engagement is The Key to 17 Percent Drop in Crime

By April Towery / April 17, 2023 /

Few people are willing to say it out loud, but in the early 1990s, when some of today’s city leaders were in high school, Oak Cliff was a place where parents told their children not to hang out after dark.  Now the area covered by Dallas City Council District 1 — including North Oak Cliff…

8 Important Stories From Dallas City Hall in 2022

By April Towery / December 26, 2022 /

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…

Missing Middle Concept Could Breathe Life into Dallas Housing Crisis, Experts Say

By April Towery / November 28, 2022 /

A housing crisis has been declared, and many piecemeal efforts are in place to solve it, but one big call to action looms before Dallas: What is missing middle housing and how do you fix it? Missing middle housing is defined as a range of multi-family or clustered housing types compatible with single-family neighborhoods. It’s…