Tweets of the Week
Rando Irving Stuff from the past ten days
Just in case you missed it, here’s posts from the last week or so from the Irving Herald:
Mark Wiggins replaces Jon Weist as Legislative Officer as Irving’s leaders believe that the fate of cities to control their own zoning at risk with a legislature hostile to cities like Irving. SB 840 just the beginning. Something like last session’s SB 673, prohibiting municipal regulation of Accessory Dwelling Units, likely to pass in a future session.
70% of Irving’s budget is from businesses, not private citizens — a reason to do economic development and do things like tax abatements
33,000 people a *day* are in Irving for recreation and tourism
Irving needs 142 police officers — this will take 5 years
Irving Fire Chief Victor Conley to in inaugurated into the Hall of Fame — a rare honor
Irving spends $1 million a year just to pick up trash on stare roads, and it’s hard to stay ahead of it. Not uncommon to see mattresses and drawers. State only comes 2x a year.
DFW Airport currently the #3 airport in the world, but is in the midst of a $12 billion capital project to built Terminal F, opening in 2027 with the first 15 gates, and fully completed in 2030 with 31 more gates. At that point DFW will surpass ATL in gate capacity and DCB (Dubai — pronounced “DUEbay”) in annual passengers, to become the #2 airport globally.
“Irving Casino Battle: Big Money vs. Local Control” a top-ten story of 2025 for the Dallas Express.
Consideration of proposed data center southwest of PUD 6 (old Texas Stadium site) by Planning and Zoning Commission postponed to gather more info about water usage. One major problem at this point though is electrical lines, as the city has no control of where they would run and it might be through a residential area or even through PUD 6 itself, potentially affecting the development of that site.
City Council, sick of hearing carport variance appeals nonstop, are set to move them to the Board of Adjustment, giving a bigger role to an otherwise sleepy, inactive body. Carport cases would be heard under a more objective standard that would result in most of the requests being declined.
No objective criteria is used for the approval of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs or “mother-in-law suites”), so approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission and Council tends to be ad hoc.
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