Talk:Addison, Texas

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Galleria: I edited the article to make it clear that the Galleria is not in Addison. But since it's not in Addison, I'm wondering if it should be mentioned at all. Any opinions? HMishkoff 15:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Galleria, redux: I removed the reference to the Galleria, it seemed silly to include information about businesses that are not actually located in Addison. HMishkoff 15:32, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Good choice ;) drumguy8800 C T 23:26, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Is Addison Road from Addison? Their bio says they're from Dallas. Royalbroil 01:26, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Map

This has the Map of Addison (US Census Bureau) WhisperToMe (talk) 17:57, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Town vs. City

I looked and did not find any substantial difference in government between Texas municipalities known as "cities" and municipalities known as "towns". There's the home rule issue, but that is only related to population size. Addison then should be listed as a "town", because they call themselves a town. There is no difference between being incorporated as a town and being incorporated as a city in Texas. Also, the U.S. Census lists Addison as a town.Inkan1969 (talk) 17:06, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

I've dealt with this issue in the past on the article for Flower Mound, Texas, and you are correct. I've changed it to reflect what you've mentioned here. The only thing that I didn't change was the labels for City Council and City Manager. Interestingly enough, unlike Flower Mound, they went with the "city" labels for those positions. Other than that, yes, the difference between town and city in Texas is simply what the municipality wants to call itself. – Runfellow (talk) 17:53, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Alcoholic beverages by the drink

"Addison is a popular location for many Dallas-area restaurants because Addison allows restaurants to serve alcoholic beverages by the drink, while many nearby municipalities do not."

What? Which municipalities do not? Literally every town/city in DFW serves alcoholic beverages by the drink. Maybe that was true in the 1970's, when most of DFW was still dry, but it is certainly not true today. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:28E0:B670:BDD6:FD85:C0BB:38AE (talk) 17:06, 15 October 2021 (UTC)

See my post below. Carguychris (talk) 06:30, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Blueprints at Addison Circle AFD

I've AFD'd the Blueprints at Addison Circle page, but I think there's a good case to be made for merging it with this article. Discussion here. Carguychris (talk) 00:15, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Problematic content in Economy section

I just added a whole slew of inline citation tags and I feel that some additional discussion is in order.

• With more than 170 restaurants, there is a restaurant for every 79 Addison residents. What is the source of this statistic? When was it calculated, and does Addison still have over 170 restaurants today? Does this sort of random statistic really belong in an encyclopedia?
• Addison is a popular location for many Dallas-area restaurants because Addison allows restaurants to serve alcoholic beverages by the drink, while many nearby municipalities do not. True in 1990; not true today. Like the Wright Amendment and the Unicard, millennial and Gen Z readers are probably scratching their heads at this one. DFW-area alcoholic beverage laws are much more liberal than they once were; the runaway success of Addison's Belt Line entertainment district in the 1980s prompted other suburbs to take notice, decide they want a piece of the sales tax action, and loosen their laws to match Addison. This belongs in the History section. Not only that, but the cited source doesn't actually say this; it only discusses that Addison was "wet" when surrounding communities were "dry", without context, and they aren't that way any longer: the source hasn't been updated since at least 2008. It also doesn't appear to meet WP:RS.
• Addison has 22 hotels, featuring a total of at least 4,000 hotel rooms and meeting facilities. As my comment says, hospitality is a volatile industry, which makes me question whether a statistic from 2010 is still valid or relevant today.
• Addison Airport... is the third-largest general aviation airport in the nation. This comes from a WP:PROMO source (the town government), they don't explain how it was calculated (perhaps land area...?), and I question its encyclopedic value and whether it deserves inclusion here. It strikes me as superfluous WP:PUFFERY by a town booster stretching for a superlative. Surely there are more informative things that can be written about the airport.

Pardon rant. Carguychris (talk) 06:25, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm going to remove the reference to "third-largest general aviation airport in the nation" from the article. A few internet searches and numerous sources quickly debunked that claim.

As you said, the cited source for that is a "Facts about Addison" page from the local government in 2010. Interestingly, there is still a Facts page (with no date) on the government website, but it now says the airport is simply "among the busiest general aviation airports in Texas". Mrezee (talk) 08:21, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Education section clean-up

Proposing deleting everything above the "Public Schools" subsection except for the first paragraph about the original schoolhouse. Everything else is overly specific about school district zoning history and should either be deleted or moved to the specific school district's article (both linked under "Public Schools").

The Public Schools section can be cleaned up too. Lots of outdated sources. The districts are described in a very confusing way; could use a rewrite. Mrezee (talk) 09:16, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

I restored much of the detail on current school zoning but left historical developments and the play-by-play zoning boundary changes out. I did not restore the opening dates of the schools not in the Addison city limits. I swapped the DISD map citations for fresh 2024 ones. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:07, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

It was important to restore the fact that CFBISD covers a piece of the city; it's not correct to imply DISD covers that part. But I left out a lot of the detail and just have a single sentence with the school zoning for CFBISD as of 2025-2026. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:24, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Updating outdated data

I made a few edits to replace outdated information but they were reverted due to improper formatting / citations. I'll lay out what I was intending to do and I would appreciate any guidance on how to do these edits properly.

• Government: Randy Smith is the current city council member instead of Nancy Craig

• Geography: "Addison Airport covers roughly half of the town's area" is incorrect. It is on 368 acres which puts it at roughly 1/8th the town's land area. In this 2019 US census file it lists Addison as having 4.353 square miles of land area. 4.353 * 640 = 2786 acres. 368 / 2786 = ~13%
• Economy: The Addison Market Position Report has updated economic data from 2023 instead of the current 2010 data
• Arts and culture: The Out of The Loop Festival is no longer hosted
• Arts and culture: WaterTower Theatre group used to be the exclusive performer at the town-owned eponymous venue, but now they are just one of several different performers. Also the naming rights were taken back. I wanted this edit to be updated to more accurately reflect their slightly less importance compared to before
• Parks and recreation: Rather than "Addison Circle Park was built in the early 2000s." I thought it would be more useful to list the largest parks by size as well as major trails
• Parks and recreation: "Vitruvian Park includes commercial and recreational sections." I don't know what the author was trying to convey with this but I don't think it's useful
• Population: The regional government has 2025 estimates but it seems we have to use US data only. Unfortunately it looks like QuickFacts is down and data.census.gov only has until 2023

Info Overloaded (talk) 22:12, 19 September 2025 (UTC)