Council postpones (at least) demolition of historic buildings

The Dallas Observer's Jim Schutze wrote this morning of his concern over an ordinance the Dallas City Council was considering today that would, as I understand, allow the city to bypass other ordinances to tear down historic buildings. From what I gathered, Schutze was disturbed that last minute changes were made to the ordinance the implications of which may not be clear to the council.

When the item came up for consideration today, council member Carolyn Davis, who either read Schutze's piece or shared his concerns, voted to defer the item and then council member Angela Hunt made sure the Historic Preservation League would have more imput into the discussion.

To me this means that when the ordinance comes back to the City Council, it will not contain the same language it did when it came up for a vote today.