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Nearly a year after five companies started raining rentals all over the city, the council unanimously approved regulations that will require bike and scooter operators to get permits and force them to pay the city per vehicle.

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The companies will have to pay an initial $808 application fee, as well as $21 per bike, to operate in Dallas. One operator, Ofo, complained about the “exorbitant fees” in a prepared statement sent to The Dallas Morning News this week. Representatives from LimeBike and Bird, a scooter company, were silent during Wednesday’s council meeting, and Bird lauded the council in a statement after the vote.

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The council disposed of a decades long legal dispute which threatened cheap jordan sneakers the city’s fiscal future after about three minutes Wednesday.

Police and firefighters had argued that City Hall had failed to abide cheap Air max shoes by the language of a 1979 pay referendum, which maintained pay differentials between ranks. City officials countered that the referendum was only meant to apply to a one time raise, but their position was weakened because previous city leaders had made efforts to comply with the language well after 1979.

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A rewrite of the city’s tree preservation ordinance, known as Article X, passed unanimously after a decade in the making. The ordinance was the result of compromise between two parties who eyed each other with great suspicion: developers who have cheap nike shoes long claimed it was too cost prohibitive to spare trees in the course of building housing, and the environmentalists who had seen the tree canopy replaced by developers’ cranes.

The Article X redo will, among other things, cheap adidas incentivize developers for sparing trees or making their housing more sustainable, encourage the planting of new trees and find ways to finally spend the $7 million in the city’s reforestation fund.

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The council also approved another new requirement that won support from people in the real estate business and parks advocates alike. The park land dedication ordinance, which passed unanimously, will require housing and hotel developers to add green space or pay a fee to fund parks. Many other cities already have such an ordinance.

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‘Granny flats’Dallas neighborhoods could have accessory dwelling units often called granny flats or mother in law suites under a new zoning tool approved Wednesday.

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