options, including staying put. meeting went until 1:30 so im sure recaps are delayed
05.03.2026 14:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0options, including staying put. meeting went until 1:30 so im sure recaps are delayed
05.03.2026 14:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0and finally, at 2:19, motion passes 9-6. good night
05.03.2026 07:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0one potential revelation: a move out of city hall might require supermajority vote, which is not assured.
05.03.2026 06:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0another controversial ammendment at 12:40. no way to do business.
05.03.2026 06:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0still jabbering over ammendments at 12:30am
05.03.2026 06:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0now a motion for an amendment to determine whether the plaza is a park. i think this is far less clear than has been suggested.
05.03.2026 06:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0there has never been a stronger argument against the weak mayor system than this meeting.
05.03.2026 06:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0and…..hour 15!
05.03.2026 06:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0the 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.
05.03.2026 06:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0now a vote of 8-7 to reconsider bazaldua’s conflict of interest motion. smdh
05.03.2026 05:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0passes 15-0. good!
05.03.2026 05:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0cm west, with an assist from cm mendelsohn, ammends motion to add costing of staying in city hall……..
05.03.2026 05:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ridley ammendment to add planning to include review of costs to stay in city hall dies 8-7. bad
05.03.2026 05:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0and now, after 13 hours, council is too dazed to even know what they’re voting on. dallas gonna be dallas.
05.03.2026 05:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ridley deferral vote di s 9-6.
05.03.2026 04:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0cm blackmon “this place moves at the speed of the titanic.” and with similar results. ….and on it goes….
05.03.2026 03:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 011 is optimistic.
05.03.2026 03:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0at 9:06 cm ridley puts forward deferral motion to investigate repair plan for city hall.
05.03.2026 03:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0been here all day…
05.03.2026 03:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0council meeting moving toward hour 12 since scheduled beginning with zero end in sight…maybe the meeting will outlast the building?
05.03.2026 01:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0does 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…
04.03.2026 15:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
ummm, what is going on at city hall? council
meeting not being broqdcast…,
coming aug 4!!!!!!
03.03.2026 16:57 — 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 2JOHNS hopkins tyvm
14.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
cc: @mlamster.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social
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
By me and @johnlorinc.bsky.social
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!
12.01.2026 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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