Dallas voters will decide whether public subsidies to private developers will be allowed after city secretary Deborah Watkins determined that a group had gathered enough signatures to require a referendum on the proposed city charter amendment.
If voters approve the measure at the May 9 municipal election, a public referendum would have to be held whenever a private developer asked for more than $1 million in public subsidies to restore or construct hotels, convention centers, luxury residential condominiums and retail facilities, or any infrastructure supporting such buildings.
The group Dallas Right to Vote filed petitions with about 32,000 signatures to the city in early February. The group needed 20,000 signatures from qualified Dallas voters to force a vote.
