As 2024 comes to a close and we look back on the hundreds of stories about new real estate projects, City Hall shenanigans, and developers with innovative solutions to the affordable housing crisis, a few names stick out. Some were heavily criticized; some were hailed as heroes. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, here are your newsmakers of 2024.
When Dallas City Councilman Paul Ridley offered a compromise to the ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan that — gasp — a majority of the council supported, he was called a great American hero.
“You just won your bid for re-election,” I told him at the time.
Filing begins in mid-January for the May election, and Ridley announced on the Dallas Dirt podcast that he’ll seek to retain his District 14 seat.
While election results are never guaranteed, Ridley made big strides with his constituents by adding language to the land use plan that made single-family homeowners feel protected and rest assured that cheap …