Category: Current Issues

ForwardDallas Summit – 18 Sep 2024

What is FowardDallas & Why Should You Care?

The Dallas Express and Candy’s Dirt will host a summit on ForwardDallas and the proposed comprehensive plan changes including the Dallas City Council’s push for higher residential density, ostensibly to address the perceived housing affordability issue.

  • Date: 18 Sep 2024
  • Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm
  • Location: Cooper Hotel, 12330 Preston Rd, Dallas, TX 75230
  • Cost: Free

Among the topics they will be addressing at this summit are:

  • What is ForwardDallas exactly and why should you care?   
  • Does Dallas have an affordable housing problem and will ForwardDallas solve it?
  • Impacts of Higher Density Residential Development (crime, property values, quality of life)
  • ForwardDallas or “Backward Dallas” – The Good, Bad, & Ugly

Please RSVP HERE for the event and share with your family and friends.

This event will take place just a week before the planned city council ForwardDallas vote on September 25th. Time is running out!

by Membership Chair

Digital Kiosk Public Meeting – 15 Aug 2024

The City of Dallas is considering adding digital kiosks to pedestrian areas around the city. As a result, city staff is seeking public input on the plan.

The meeting is scheduled for 15 August 2024, 6-8pm. It will be hosted in-person and virtually. Please see the flyer below for more information. If you wish to attend, in-person or virtually, you must pre-register HERE.

A digital kiosk is a a self-standing structure assembled in strategic pedestrian areas, such as sidewalks and public spaces. It is a self-service unit that features a touchscreen display and is designed to provide information, services, or products. In contrast, a static kiosk is non-interactive and advertises non-digital products, services, or information.

by Membership Chair

How to be Safe in an Earthquake

Given recent seismic activity in our area, the Dallas Office of Emergency Management offers the following suggestions for being safe during an earthquake.

1. Don’t run during the shaking. Most injuries are from falling objects, not collapsing buildings.
2. Drop, cover and hold under a desk or table within the first 3-4 seconds of shaking. Stay there until the shaking stops.
3. If you are in a place without a table, get low! Think beneath, beside, between.
Getting beneath any desk or table is the best option. Sit beside an inside wall. Get low beside heavy furniture. Crouch low between rows of chairs in a movie theater, church or stadium. Get low beside and beneath the level of a grocery cart in the supermarket.
4. If you are outside in an open area… Sit down and cover your head with your arms.
5. If you are outside close to a building… Move into the building and find a safe place. Immediately outside a building is called the “danger zone”.

NOTE: Doorways are NOT a recommended safe place in an earthquake. It’s difficult to stay in the doorway during the shaking and the door often causes injury when it swings open and closed during the shaking.

See this Dallas DropCoverHold handout for more information.

by lgna2014