Your neighbors are really calling 311 about what now

Dallas on the wire — big hat, bigger story. Look— we talk a lot about the big, splashy votes down at City Hall, the ones that make the news. But what really tells you what's going on in a neighborhood? It's those 311 calls. The things folks are calling about when the city ain't quite working right. And y'all, the numbers just dropped, and there's one thing that’s jumpin’ out at me more than a Fletcher's corny dog line on a Saturday at the State Fair.

Code concerns – that's your busted fences, your overgrown yards, the kinda stuff that makes a block feel neglected – they’re still king. We're talking **29,281 requests** for "Code Concern - CCS." That's not a typo, that's nearly thirty thousand times someone picked up the phone because something wasn't right in their neighborhood. That dwarfs everything else on the list by a mile. It tells me that for all the fancy new high-rises going up downtown and the pretty lights on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, a whole lot of Dallas residents are still worried about the basics, the stuff that makes their street feel like home.

It's clear that while the city is growing, we can't forget the everyday quality of life issues that residents are bringing up. That many calls? It’s a loud message. We'll be watching how City Hall addresses this flood of concerns in the coming budget cycle.

Dallas on the wire — big hat, bigger story.

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