Live From Dallas City Hall -- 'ForwardDallas!' Plan Faces Public

Various blog entries over the past couple of days have been chronicling the comprehensive plan's path to a vote, which was approved by the Dallas City Council June 14. The Observer's coverage depicts the city's officials as mostly uninterested in the public's opinion about the plan, reporting that Dallas Mayor Laura Miller didn't even show up to the vote.

"Yesterday evening, her absence from council chambers during the heartfelt, at times contentious discussion over ForwardDallas!, the comprehensive plan that threatens/promises to reshape the city in Portland-based urban planner John Fregonese’s image in coming years, was the source of some debate: Should the mayor have been tending to the business of two airlines who employ thousands living in Dallas, or should she have been at council listening to and talking to hundreds of people begging to be heard about a plan affecting millions?"