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The Dallas City Council spent more than seven hours Tuesday hearing testimony and debating the merits of banning or regulating short-term rentals in residential areas, but a draft proposed ordinance still isn’t “ready for prime time,” according to City Manager T.C. Broadnax. “There’s still a lot of ambiguity in the data and council consensus,” Broadnax…
North Oak Cliff is indeed getting a Sprouts Farmers Market, but it wasn’t the slam-dunk approval that it appeared to be. A casual observer at Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting probably wouldn’t know that the unanimously approved rezoning request was the result of a hard-fought battle almost two years in the making. The City Plan…
Another round of ForwardDallas workshops kicks off at the end of January as the city seeks to guide future development, preserve neighborhoods, and address equity. Online sessions are planned to solicit feedback from homeowners, business owners, the nonprofit sector, the development community, and environmental justice advocates. The comprehensive land use plan ForwardDallas was adopted in…
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…
The Plano City Council last week delayed action on short-term rentals but heard from residents and the city’s neighborhood services director about plans to model an ordinance after the one adopted in Arlington. Short-term rentals dominated the news in Dallas during the summer months, but the debate cooled as the city entered its budget process. …
