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City Manager T.C. Broadnax briefed the council on a plan to fix the broken permitting office. But he said the issue had been overblown by the media and the development community, which didn’t exactly go over well with many stakeholders.
It’s still taking an average of six weeks for builders to get permits. In other cities, it takes two to three. This has been going on for more than two years now, and City Manager T.C. Broadnax has to produce a plan by May 18.
Dr. Eric Anthony Johnson will be resigning at the end of the month after ushering through an economic development policy that was unanimously approved by the City Council.
How Dallas’s permitting problems nearly spelled doom for Community Beer Co., one of the city’s most successful brewers.