KTVT's Jay Gormley with Jim Dodd, out on Ray RoadThe item on today's City Plan Commission agenda reads as dry as stale Melba toast: "An application to create 7 lots from 259.199 acres located in several tracts of land in City Blocks 8298, 8299, 8300, 8303, 8304 and 8305, on Telephone Road, east of Dallas Avenue." The applicant is Ridge Property Trust, a Chicago-based company with Irving offices that specializes "in 'state of the art' warehouse, distribution and manufacturing facilities," per
A few afternoon follow-ups to some morning items, plus a note from City Hall, where pink slips are going out in advance of tomorrow's scheduled layoffs. (Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm says she's laying off 840, with the hopes of hiring back 500.) Rudy has word about some losses at the Meyerson Symphony Center, but Unfair Park has also been told that the city's historic preservation staff has been cut substantially -- from seven employees down to three. Chief planner Kate Singleton had been wa
