From Feb. 1, 2027, Dallas alley homes pay $45.22 a month for trash and recycling and curbside homes $37.76, replacing one $40.09 rate. The city’s fee package also raises stormwater charges about 7.5%, more than doubles the residential 9-1-1 fee and moves about 6,000 homes from alley to curb.
Plano’s Oct. 12 consent agenda includes up to $390,000 for ChatGPT Enterprise, Teams Premium, an AI governance tool called Darwin AI and a reserve. The city would start with 150 ChatGPT licenses at an estimated $57,024 a year, about $380 per seat, with training and human review required.
The Regional Transportation Council is set to vote on a regional bicycle safety plan it tabled in September. Its crash map puts 55% of bicycle crashes in 11.6% of the urbanized area. A separate item would open a $60 million federal call for trails, bikeways and Safe Routes to School plans on Oct. 12.
Tarrant County’s approved FY2027 budget totals $834,076,906, about $10.6 million more than last year, on an 18.60-cent rate that sits just under no-new-revenue. Departments asked for $985.9 million. The budget book shows what got cut, what grew and why median and average homes move in opposite directions.
DFW Airport raised every parking price on Oct. 1. A day in a terminal garage is now $40 by card, up from $32, with a $3 TollTag discount. We priced a three-day trip and traced the increase to a $1.622 billion budget and new Terminal F debt.
Bills rendered on or after Oct. 1 carry Atmos Mid-Tex’s new delivery rates: a $24.35 customer charge and $1.03839 per Ccf. Atmos puts the average residential bill $13.37 higher. City records show how the $260.5 million settlement was reached, and our table shows the cost at 20, 60 or 100 Ccf.
Sanger’s council tabled the Triple T Ranch requests until Jan. 19. The packet shows up to 1,061 homes on 387.515 acres near Lake Ray Roberts, two of every three on lots of 6,000 square feet or less, plus a $75.5 million improvement district. The council packet spells out what the plan would allow.
Dallas County Prop A asks voters to keep a 24.865-cent rate for homelessness, mental health and housing programs. County taxes rise either way. The vote decides whether the median homestead pays $666.52 or $602.19, and whether about $102.9 million goes to those programs.
A day after Gov. Greg Abbott told TCEQ to halt permits for data centers, a $430 million Colovore data center was registered for Fort Worth’s Denton County side. Here is what the pause covers, what the state filing means and the dates to watch.
Dallas council takes up case Z-26-000007 on Oct. 14, a planned development at Preston Road and Royal Lane with towers up to 240 feet, mixed-income units and 150 trees. Staff and the Plan Commission recommend approval, while 263 of 271 notice replies oppose it.