[Update at 6:45: To spare you the trouble of reading all the way through, here’s the news. With a 7-6 vote, the commission denied XTO Energy’s application for an SUP to drill at Hensely Field. XTO can now appeal that decision to the City Council, which will, you have to…
As Friend of Unfair Park Ed D. notes in the comments below, Dallas City Hall just posted to its Facebook page six photos of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge taken by — let’s see if I get this right — “remote control plane.” Oh, so that explains why I saw…
Initially I thought this would be just an oddball novelty item: Heritage Auction Galleries is selling the door to Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald’s old Oak Cliff apartment — the one on Elsbeth and Davis Streets, more or less across the street from the Bishop Arts District. It doesn’t officially…
The Hatcher Station, one of four light-rail stations identified as by the city as a recipient of the feds’ grant announced this morningThis morning we’ve received several press releases from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Transportation announcing that Dallas is getting $2,225,000…
Yesterday, downtown-working attorney Brad Nitschke sent this parking-meter picture to Angela Hunt, via the Twitter, with the note: “This is not what a commitment to downtown looks like.” To which she responded: “You’re absolutely right. Part of the update to Dallas’ Downtown plan is a parking study which will address…
Good morning, Friends o’ The Unfair Park. I’m poised alongside a couple of very handsome Dallas Morning News writers at an inadequately small Ikea work table somewhere high up in the Wyly Theatre in the Arts District — it’s that big building that looks like it’s made of bass guitar…
Last week, Jim and Sam wrote all about how City Hall’s done fed up to here with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and their demands that Dallas repair the hell out the Trinity River levees before they get re-certified. As you’re no doubt well aware by now, much of…
Jason Roberts/Go Oak CliffA look at Davis during the second round of Better Block-building in Oak CliffSpeaking of the city’s Strategic Plan Update …It’s been exactly one year since City Hall hopped aboard the Complete Streets Initiative, first rolled out at the initial Ride to City Hall and then formally…
Tomorrow morning the city council schleps all the way to the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre for its latest retreat, at which point they’ll pore over the results of the latest Strategic Plan Update. In short, it’s a look back at what the council wanted to get done in the…
A Friend of Unfair Park forwarded along this Center for Public Integrity round-up of Republicans and conservative Democrats who railed against the the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act … then asked for stimulus dough anyhow. For our purposes, the piece begins with none other than Rep. Pete Sessions, who,…
Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins accused Republican challenger Danny Clancy of lying and attempting to be the next Henry Wade at a debate last night at Friendship-West Baptist Church in South Dallas, where Watkins and his family attend church. While Watkins clearly held the home-field advantage for the final…
All the Idea Week fun that kicked off with a little “speed ideating” downtown on Monday (maybe next year we’ll finally get that speed eating session) rolled along this morning with the second annual bike ride to City Hall, showcasing the latest draft of the Dallas Bike Plan, and spotlighting…
Frank Librio, the fine PIO at Dallas City Hall, just sent word: The city’s introducing E-Alerts today, intended to keep locals “connected to City Hall,” which I assume isn’t some kind of a threat. Says the memo, all you gotta do is go to the city’s website, where, at the…
Joel KotkinWe — meaning, you — just got the nicest invitation to Dallas City Hall on November 12. It’s for a little get-together called the 21st Century City Conference, which is being staged by The Trinity Trust, The Dallas Institute and the CityDesign Studio. There’s some info on the website…
Governor Rick Perry recycled his campaign stump speech and sold it as his State of the State Address to the crowd gathered at the Hyatt Regency this afternoon, as Perry bragged about the economy and railed against Washington for failing to secure the Texas-Mexico border. “In a word, the state…
Sam MertenNational Public Radio’s John Burnett went to the State Fair of Texas and asked those lined up to buy fried whatnots: Are you tired of Governor Rick Perry? Why, yes! Um, no, not at all. Maybe? (Perhaps Burnett should have waited till he read this morning’s paper.)Evan Smith, ex-Texas…
The Grand Ricchi, some dayAfternoon, Unfair Friends! Once again I find myself at City Hall, moving and shaking as I do among the political hoi polloi, bringing you the livest, bloggingest account of today’s Economic Development Committee, wherein we’ll be hearing about the Downtown Connection TIF District, meaning the mixed-use…
We’re here at City Hall for the Trinity River Corridor Project Committee’s briefing about the recent setback in the city’s rush to restore the Trinity River levees’ 100-year flood protection before FEMA finalizes new flood maps at the end of 2011. At issue is a request by the U.S. Army…
inside the former LTV Tower as it crawls toward a rebirth as The Grand Ricchi’Bout a month back we got a sneak peek at the Grand Ricchi, Leobardo Trevino’s planned hotel-slash-“office condo” slated to move into the former LTV Tower. When all’s said and done, Trevino’s supposed to spend somewhere…
The Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance’s Mike Faenza and John Castle have been pretty regular faces at City Hall over the past few months, but this afternoon, the city council’s Quality of Life Committee turned the tables and took their show straight to The Bridge.They wrapped their visit with a 10-minute…
Among the recommendation in the downtown plan to be discussed shortly: Plant “glass box” retail downtown pronto!It’s dudes in suits on parade here at City Hall this afternoon, as the Transportation and Environment Committee Meeting — which, in due time, will finally get ’round to the Downtown Dallas 360 plan…
Dallas County Democratic Party chair Darlene Ewing said it’s her party’s “belief and suspicion” that Republican Danny Clancy’s reported theft of four tires from his Ford Expedition on Thursday was a “stunt,” adding that there’s a racial connotation to Clancy’s suggestion that District Attorney Craig Watkins or his campaign was…
