Went to the city’s website to look for something — oh, what an exciting life it is — and came across this freshly minted item: “City clarifies Dallas Bike Plan implementation status and outlook.” Well, now. Looks like someone (cough) would like to rebut a law-practicing council member’s argument that…
One month ago, after a lengthy discussion, the Dallas City Council voted not to give a late-night specific use permit to a bowling alley being proposed for the old Lucky’s Roadhouse space, next to Good Records on Greenville Avenue. Pauline Medrano — who, with Angela Hunt, co-wrote the Planned Development…
The reason I called Park and Rec’s second-in-command Willis Winters the other day wasn’t about downtown parks. Rather, I was curious about an $869,465 item on the Park Board’s agenda for today: “Consider a professional services contract with Good, Fulton & Farrell Architects for schematic design through construction administration services…
Just after that totally delightful discussion on the voting habits of trees, after which the city council OK’d a new Walmart, there came another momentous development matter: the West Dallas mixed-use project known as Sylvan Thirty, the one we’ve been writing about since, I dunno, forever-ish. The city council voted…
Speaking of Dwaine Caraway …The city council just voted on that Walmart Supercenter proposed for Ledbetter and R.L. Thornton, and though it ultimately passed unanimously it was no simple thing — far from. It was quite the discussion — heated at times, thoughtful at others. On the surface it was…
We’ve known for a long while now that the upcoming expansion of expansion of César Chávez Boulevard and Pearl Expressway downtown, from Commerce Street to Live Oak Street, would create a new downtown park — Carpenter Plaza Park, to be specific, which will unite those three separate parcels into a…
This is not the first time Dwaine Caraway has stood up for Skyline High School. Three years ago, back when the Dallas ISD first toyed with tinkering with its magnets, the District Four council member — and Roosevelt grad — went to the board of trustees and demanded they keep…
I know — this whole tussle over “flow control” probably doesn’t do much for some of you. So long as your trash goes away, it doesn’t matter where it goes or who takes it there. Let the waste-haulers and City Hallers duke it out in the courtroom. Just make sure…
Former Mayor Tom Leppert may well need a Hail Mary come the March 6 GOP primary — if, that is, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst can maintain his frontrunner status in the race for the U.S. Senate. So, then, who better to lock up for an endorsement than Captain America himself?…
Way back last April, the energetic, civic-minded hipsters over at Better Block turned the area around King’s Highway, W. 7th St. and N. Tyler St. in Oak Cliff into a nice little plaza space where it was entirely possible to sit without being, you know, repeatedly run over. That was…
When Walmart made its big to-do back in February about opening “more than a dozen new projects in the city of Dallas, including at least three new stores in Southern Dallas,” among the locations mentioned was a Neighborhood Market on S. Buckner and Scyene Road that would provide “that community…
Council member Angela Hunt popped into the comments yesterday to express and explain her frustration with implementation of the city’s new Bike Plan, unanimously okee-doked by the city council in June. Because, as we’ve been discussing since Saturday morning, the plan isn’t really a plan — more like a suggestion,…
Schutze is at the council’s Trinity River Corridor Project Committee meeting; he didn’t want to miss Trinity River Corridor Project Managing Director Rebecca Rasor’s presentation Trinity River Corridor Project Update On Recreation, where — and you won’t believe this — they still have those renderings of the solar-powered water taxis,…
Turns out, the city’s new bike plan, unanimously approved by council in June, is far more complex than drawing lines along the street in patterns deemed good ideas by city consultants. Before we get into the meat of the issue, here are some basic stats to catch you up to…
No doubt you’re aware by now that beloved Houston-based Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods is due to take over the old Toys “R” Us at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway; originally due to debut ’round Thanksgivingish, Spec’s tells Unfair Park this morning that there’s now “no specific date” for…
On Saturday we previewed today’s council look-see at how the new Bike Plan will be implemented; both the Quality of Life and Transportation and Environment committees got the docs Friday night. (There’s also a very related briefing on the agenda: the boringly titled but nevertheless fascinating Pavement Markings, which, as…
As we were leaving the office Friday, word came down that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (and former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement) got what they wanted from the U.S. Supreme Court: a ruling that, for now, stays those congressional and state House and Senate maps drawn up by U.S…
By 2021 the city of Dallas hopes to have 1,296 miles of here-to-there dedicated to cyclists, 456 of which would be off-road — trails, let’s say. Which leaves the rest, 840 miles, spread up and down the cracked concrete, bike lanes and cycle tracks chief among the options. So, then,…
Like I said earlier this week, when city attorneys had city council members behind closed doors this week, one of their topics of conversation was the National Solid Wastes Management Association’s federal antitrust lawsuit against the city over flow control — you know, that ordinance steering all solid waste collected…
Only last week, following the Wilco-Nick Lowe two-fer, we asked: Why isn’t the Music Hall at Fair Park, long ago a popular venue for pop music, used for more concerts? At which point we were told: That’s certainly a possibility. Matter of fact, said Jayne Basse, who books the joint…
Last I looked, Sylvan Thirty — the proposed mixed-use development across the street from the Belmont — was closer to conceptual than actual. As in: Short a few million, developer Brent Jackson more than likely will have to partner with the city to actually get the thing built, as we…
Technically, the U.S. Postal Service hasn’t yet made a decision about whether it will close the processing center at the main post office near Sylvan and IH-30, just one of several local sites it’s considering shuttering as it looks to move operations to the Coppell and Fort Worth plants instead…
