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…
Yesterday, during my occasional and futile shift on the Rick Perry firing squad, I unloaded most of my ammunition on Perry’s impossibly ignorant rant about Obama’s plan to protect gay people overseas — an act Perry deemed as an attack on “traditional American values.” By the time I finished firing,…
Rudy got to this before I could, but no matter: What you see above was made for the Dallas Citizens Council, which had a dinner this week to which I am sure Schutze’s invite was lost in the mail. Long story short: Dallas is kickin’ ass. We have “attitude.” We’re…
On Monday a few Friends of Unfair Park seemed a little humbugged to hear that the Dallas Police Department, along with the mayor and the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office, would prefer you buy non-black-market items for your Christmas list this year. Nonetheless, DPD Chief David Brown, undeterred, stopped by…
At yesterday’s meeting, the council-appointed drilling task force grappled with some of the more divisive issues in front of them — and actually nailed down what they’ll recommend the council do about set-back distances and allowing disposal wells for produced frack water. As they deliberated, anti-drilling activists in the audience…
Here’s the president yesterday, decrying not-minor human-rights violations against gays overseas (from the Washington Times):”I am deeply concerned by the violence and discrimination targeting [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered] persons around the world — whether it is passing laws that criminalize LGBT status, beating citizens simply for joining peaceful LGBT…
Yesterday afternoon the Arts Culture and Libraries Committee took its quick tour of the construction site that will soon be the City Performance Hall, which they hope somebody might want to rent out at some point. City council members Ann Margolin, Jerry Allen and Delia Jasso called their committee meeting…
At present, the Hall of State in Fair Park is closed to the public whilst it breaks down the “Texas!” exhibit that went up in time for, and lingered well after, the State Fair of Texas and attracted some 120,000 visitors during its run. But when it reopens at the…
It’s been nearly six months since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton issued a memo to his subordinates, which we’ll translate from bureaucrat-speak for you: Look, we got scarce resources, so don’t head out into the field looking to pop every Tomas, Diego and Enrique you find without…
Yesterday the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation sent word: The deck park would be receiving its first trees this morning, at ’round 10:30. I was told that despite the cold temperatures, the timing was good: “This season is the preferred time to plant because leaves are gone so the trees will…
The answer is no, the question being: Will we ever stop writing about the city redistricting process? But it’s been a little while, so let’s review. Then we can discuss the dueling delegations who apparently met with the Department of Justice last week to discuss the (barely) council-approved map forwarded…
Tomorrow, the Dallas City Council will go behind closed doors to meet with city attorneys about a host of legal issues staring down City Hall, among them: a long-going federal wrongful arrest suit about to get even more expensive (council will vote next week to pay Brown & Hofmeister an…
