special meeting agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThere\u2019s virtually nothing that the city could not do in this context, including sale of the property to anyone for any price,\u201d Judge Moy\u00e9 said.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters outside the courtroom on Tuesday, Mr. Bazaldua said delaying any votes would buy the Council more time to determine what to do with City Hall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the court ruled on today allowed for us to have sufficient time to get necessary information that I believe was not afforded to us before being asked to take a vote,\u201d Mr. Bazaldua said.<\/p>\n
Ms. Bizor Tolbert said in a statement that the city respected the judge\u2019s decision and would work to make the agenda compliant with state law.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe value and encourage continued public discussion of these items, as we have for the last year, and we look forward to receiving clear direction from the City Council on the next steps,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Judge Moy\u00e9 scheduled another hearing for June 18 to determine whether a temporary injunction is needed.<\/p>\n
Had the City Council met on Wednesday, council members would have voted on items that would determine the fate of City Hall, such as whether to begin advance work toward moving staff and 911 operations out of the current building, or whether to approve a plan to make phased repairs to the building, which has housed City Hall since 1978.<\/p>\n
Dallas has been embroiled in months of debate over what to do with the aging building. Preservationists have argued that a building designed by Mr. Pei, who also designed the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, should be repaired and maintained. But many developers have supported the possibility that City Hall could move elsewhere, allowing for new projects in the building\u2019s neighborhood, on the south side of downtown Dallas.<\/p>\n
The cost of the repairs has also been a point of contention. One report released this year estimated that it could cost up to $1 billion over 20 years to make the necessary fixes to City Hall. A more recent report found that repairs could be done in about 10 years at a cost of about $500 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas County judge on Tuesday barred the Dallas City Council from holding a meeting that could have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[117858,102,43498,104,103],"class_list":["post-329938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-city-councils","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-tex","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}