2026-09-09 - City Council

Summary

Built from the official minutes (Voting Agenda Meeting, 67 pages with the action sheets). No video is posted, so there is no transcript or timing.

Voting agenda meeting, 9:16 a.m. to 3:11 p.m., with a closed session from 1:38 to 2:29 p.m. All 15 members were present; Mayor Johnson presided, and Resendez presided over parts of the meeting as Mayor Pro Tem while the mayor was absent.
The Living Wage Policy was adopted with amendments after eleven speakers; Roth and Mendelsohn voted no.
Housing approvals: Lake June amendment and Trinity West (each with Mendelsohn opposed), The Hartford acquisition, and two West Davis tax credit resolutions (unanimous).
State Fair Classic football agreement ($2.35 million) passed with Mendelsohn and Ridley opposed; a City Store lease passed with Roth, Mendelsohn and Ridley opposed; a $9.3 million computer hardware purchasing agreement passed with Blackmon, Roth, Mendelsohn and Ridley opposed.
The closed session covered a lawsuit by the Save Dallas City Hall Coalition and letters from that group, and a lawsuit by White Rock Boathouse, Inc.; no action was reported.

Amended and adopted; threshold $300,000; wage rate held at $23.06; review every two years; Roth's $1 million motion failed 1 to 13.

Lake June (125 to 95 homes, 30 percent affordable), Trinity West (136 units), The Hartford, West Davis Senior (280 units) and West Davis Family (360 units).

Houston Street Viaduct naming as Pettis Norman Bridge deferred until a ceremonial naming hearing.

Cargo facilities, Hyatt Regency purchase and airport budget approved; fines ordinance deferred to September 23 and re-noticed.

Emergency Solutions Grant shelter renewals (total $686,740) adopted on consent after speakers from The Bridge and the Salvation Army.

Oncor vault removal for the convention center master plan ($544,709.68) approved unanimously.

Consent zoning docket passed on Blackmon's motion with Z2, Z4, Z6 and Z9 pulled and Z3 deleted: a multifamily planned development off Ferguson Road (Ordinance No. 33551); a laboratory permit on North Westmoreland Road; a utility installation permit on Blanco Drive; a historic overlay for the Mountain Creek Interurban Bridge; a downtown sign district subdistrict; a Deep Ellum bar permit on Elm Street; a skybridge permit on Harry Hines Boulevard; and an alcohol permit on C.F. Hawn Freeway.
Z2 (Great Trinity Forest Way): staff recommended approval but the plan commission recommended denial; remanded to the plan commission on Blackmon's motion, unanimous.
Z4 (Oak Lawn subdistrict): Ridley limited multifamily height to 45 feet and removed minimum lot area provisions; unanimous.
Z6 (Haymarket Road at C.F. Hawn Freeway): one developer representative spoke; Blair moved to hold to the October 7 voting agenda meeting; unanimous. The minutes cite October 7 although the Council's next listed voting meeting was October 14.
Z9 (Henderson Avenue): Ridley allowed agricultural uses by right and relaxed density and facade rules in one subdistrict; unanimous.
Public hearing on Chapter 12 of the City Code (youth program standards of care) re-adopted unanimously (Ordinance No. 33561).

Minutes of August 25 and 26 adopted. Consent agenda adopted on Moreno's motion with speakers on the homeless contracts and flood contracts (Item 16, two speakers including a Kleberg Neighborhood representative).
Pulled and adopted with divided votes: a City Store lease on Moberly Lane ($341,194.10, five years and two months; Roth, Mendelsohn, Ridley opposed) and a one-year computer hardware cooperative purchasing agreement with GTS Technology Solutions ($9,326,753.13). A 9-1-1 system upgrade agreement with AT&T (up to $10,351,125, to August 2031) passed unanimously on Mendelsohn's own motion.
Consent: a $19.35 million replacement of 20 passenger boarding bridges at Love Field; water and wastewater main contracts ($17.3 million, $13.3 million and $19.7 million); commercial paper notes for Love Field; bonds up to $312 million and $36 million in contractual obligations authorized for planning; a Dallas County tax foreclosure property quitclaim; settlements of up to $344,610 and $43,000; an FAA grant of $151,050.
One appointment to the Commission on Disabilities.
Open microphone: six speakers on Flock cameras, immigration, the budget, Preston Royal rezoning, an emergency agenda item and police matters.