Dallas City Hall keeps failing Spanish speakers | Opinion
Five-year-old David Rojas rides his bike in front of his family's home on Bird Lane in the Floral Farms neighborhood of southeast Dallas. Eighteen-wheelers and other commercial trucks use the narrow street many times daily to get to an industrial recycling and waste disposal site on Bird Lane.After years of waiting, the beleaguered neighborhood of Floral Farms is finally on a path to have its zoning formally reviewed by the city of Dallas.
The first city meeting with Floral Farms neighbors in the fall had an interpreter and a presentation with Spanish translations.
However, city staff limited its outreach to people who attended the previous meeting or those who expressed interest after an initial area-wide mail-out last year. Guevara said city staff are reviewing best practices so that future meetings are accessible to all residents. But it’s asking a lot of those staffers to provide faithful, verbatim interpretations at community meetings as important as those in an authorized hearing. That’s a legal process to rezone an area, one that can affect people’s property rights and the look and feel of their neighborhood. Dallas officials know the demographics of the city and specific communities.
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