Dallas board upholds habitual-nuisance designation for Manor Hospitality Corp motel

The Permit and License Appeal Board for the City of Dallas on Jan. 16, 2025, voted unanimously to uphold the director of code compliance’s final determination that a motel owned by Manor Hospitality Corp is a habitual nuisance property. The motion to affirm the director’s decision passed after presentations from the city and the property owner’s counsel and testimony from a city code inspector.

The board’s decision sustains a designation under chapter 27 of the Dallas City Code that applies when a property is the site of multiple code citations within a 365-day period and the owner has not taken reasonable steps to abate violations. The designation allows the city to require a posted sign identifying the property as a habitual nuisance property, to impose conditions on how the property operates and to assess fees tied to additional enforcement and monitoring.

In opening the city’s case, Assistant City Attorney Matthew Stringer told the board that community prosecution had documented repeated inspections and citations, and that the property had received multiple code citations over the…