mark lamster

options, including staying put. meeting went until 1:30 so im sure recaps are delayed

and finally, at 2:19, motion passes 9-6. good night

one potential revelation: a move out of city hall might require supermajority vote, which is not assured.

another controversial ammendment at 12:40. no way to do business.

still jabbering over ammendments at 12:30am

now a motion for an amendment to determine whether the plaza is a park. i think this is far less clear than has been suggested.

there has never been a stronger argument against the weak mayor system than this meeting.

and…..hour 15!

the west ammendment is a fig leaf to at least give the appearance of die dilligence…. bit a fig leaf may be better than stark naked.

now a vote of 8-7 to reconsider bazaldua’s conflict of interest motion. smdh

passes 15-0. good!

cm west, with an assist from cm mendelsohn, ammends motion to add costing of staying in city hall……..

ridley ammendment to add planning to include review of costs to stay in city hall dies 8-7. bad

and now, after 13 hours, council is too dazed to even know what they’re voting on. dallas gonna be dallas.

ridley deferral vote di s 9-6.

cm blackmon “this place moves at the speed of the titanic.” and with similar results. ….and on it goes….

11 is optimistic.

at 9:06 cm ridley puts forward deferral motion to investigate repair plan for city hall.

been here all day…

council meeting moving toward hour 12 since scheduled beginning with zero end in sight…maybe the meeting will outlast the building?

does not inspire confidence in an institution when it can’t get its most consequential meeting in ages started anywhere close to on time. now ~40 mins late and counting…

ummm, what is going on at city hall? council
meeting not being broqdcast…,

coming aug 4!!!!!!

JOHNS hopkins tyvm

Attn: Dallas. This is how you can activate a civic plaza in front of an iconic, brutalist city hall building.

Reimagine, renovate, and keep Dallas City Hall.

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In Preston Hollow, a hobbit house inspired by ‘The Lord of the Rings’ A quirky visionary and a team of craftsmen bring a dragon-filled interpretation of Tolkien’s Middle-earth to North Dallas.

taking a (short) break from the dallas city hall shenanigans to bring you this feature on one of the secret gems of dallas, phylls glazer’s lord of the rings inspired compound in preston hollow, complete with a full-on hobbit house and, of course, lots of dragons.
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Our piece on single stair: a crucial change that is slowly coming to Canadian cities

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Lamster: How to fix downtown Dallas What is the future of downtown Dallas? Even for a place that is persistently described as “at a crossroads” and “in crisis,” the present moment seems fraught...

my latest on how to save downtown dallas: it ain’t a convention center, it ain’t an arena, and it certainly ain’t tearing down city hall. it is reversing generaitons of auto-centric urban planning.

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thanks!

Lamster: The 20 most significant demolitions in Dallas history With Dallas City Hall’s future in question, a look back at the city’s history of architectural destruction.

with city hall on the block, here’s my list of the 20 most significact demoliions in dallas history. list could have been 10 times as long and still inadequate.

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