Dispatches from the agenda packet
Working guides to zoning cases, short-term rental ordinances, impact fees, development approvals, and public bids — written from the city and county records where each one first appears.
ScopeEvery dispatch points to the official meeting record and names the document it came from. This is source monitoring, not legal advice.
August 2026
Dallas gave digital sign owners exactly one year. The clock started on an agenda.
On August 26, 2015, Dallas adopted Ordinance 29839, setting new rules for digital displays on premise signs. Every existing nonconforming digital sign got the same deadline: comply within one year or file for a Board of Adjustment special exception before August 26, 2016. Owners who saw the ordinance early had twelve months to engineer a fix or build an appeal. Owners who found out at renewal time had whatever was left.
Signs and billboards5 min read