Letters to the Editor — Personal Technology page, homeless in Dallas, short-term rentals

Rossman logging off

Re: “So lengthy — it’s been plenty of enjoyable speaking about tech,” by Jim Rossman, Sunday Enterprise column.

I used to be so disillusioned to learn that Private Expertise by Jim Rossman will now not be carried by The Dallas Morning Information. His tech ideas, recommendation and product critiques have been invaluable. Thanks, Jim!

Andy Nelson, Grand Prairie

Loved the ‘excellent news’

I’ve loved this weekly Private Expertise web page for a few years and it’s the very first thing I learn once I open my Sunday paper. Thanks, Mr. Rossman, for offering years of helpful details about client expertise and sharing your private trials and errors in making a few of these devices work.

Private Expertise was one of many few “excellent news” pages in The Dallas Morning Information, and the paper is diminished with out you.

Steve Abell, Arlington

Extra sophisticated than anticipated

Re: “This Is Not How We Do Issues Right here — Armed activists blocking metropolis employees from cleansing a homeless camp is unacceptable,” July 27 editorial.

Excellent news, dangerous information. Activists used their our bodies and automobiles to dam metropolis personnel from “cleansing” the positioning of a homeless encampment. Hooray for the activists utilizing the liberty of speech and meeting to guard homeless individuals. Boo for the activists who introduced weapons. Hooray for town for locating housing for 971 individuals. Boo for town’s lack of a plan to relocate these residents or for the 5,000 different homeless individuals in Dallas.

The protest was not towards “cleansing” the campsite. It was towards “cleansing out” the campsite, as has so typically been the case with bulldozers wiping out the few possessions of individuals, lots of whom are unable to know what is occurring.

Steve McCluer, Far North Dallas

Please help this act

Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz should vote for the Inflation Discount Act, which is coming to a vote within the Senate quickly and comprises very important local weather mitigation provisions.

Now we have been inundated with pure disasters this complete summer time, from record-breaking warmth waves, wildfires and unprecedented flooding that has taken lives from coast to coast. These occasions have a direct relationship with the rise of carbon dioxide within the ambiance due to the continued burning of fossil fuels.

We’re already a few years behind the place we ought to be due to local weather change-denying propaganda. We should tackle this menace to all life kinds on Earth — right this moment.

Stephen Upham, Garland

Assist the KISS possibility

Re: “Frisco Colleges Dallas on Brief-Time period Leases — Massive metropolis much less aggressive than neighbors as its leaders dither,” Friday editorial.

There may be nothing progressive about permitting short-term leases in our single-family neighborhoods. They tear on the social cloth created by neighbors who’ve a dedication to the neighborhood and disrupt the contributions residents make for the great of the neighborhood. Transients don’t care about neighborhoods and contribute nothing. Dallas Morning Information, when will we householders matter?

Zoning prohibiting “lodging use” in residential neighborhoods already exists. See Dallas Improvement Code SEC.51A-4.112 Single Household District-(f)(B) industrial and enterprise companies makes use of: none permitted; (E) lodging use: none permitted.

The “Preserve It Easy Answer” is now being thought-about by metropolis officers earlier than going to the Metropolis Council for a vote. It merely asks that our improvement code be amended to incorporate a definition of short-term leases as lodging use beneath the code. Beneath this plan, short-term leases will nonetheless be allowed to function in Dallas, simply not in neighborhoods which have at all times disallowed lodging use.

Owners matter. Assist the KISS possibility.

Ellen Beadling, North Dallas

Dallas isn’t behind on this

This editorial paints town of Dallas as behind the occasions, “much less aggressive than its neighbors” in embracing proposals that will kill short-term leases in single-family neighborhoods. Assume quality-of-life points. Dallas isn’t behind the occasions. In my view, it could be forward of the occasions in attempting to guard the standard of life in our neighborhoods.

Arlington’s damaging expertise has resulted in sturdy zoning restrictions for short-term leases. One of many world’s premier trip locations, town and county of Honolulu continues to limit short-term leases with a brand new ordinance efficient Oct. 23 limiting short-term leases (lower than 90 days) to designated areas solely, all in an effort to maintain residential neighborhoods from being overrun by short-term leases.

The long-standing zoning dedication of Dallas to maintain industrial companies out of residential neighborhoods is being challenged by the short-term rental trade and massive enterprise equivalent to Airbnb and Vrbo. Do you care? In that case, contact your Dallas councilman/girl and easily inform them your ideas on short-term leases.

John Morrow, Dallas/Lake HighlandsHed

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