Dallas residents want a seat at the table when it comes to deciding the fate of alley trash pickup.

At least six people from districts 13 and nine spoke on potential changes to their trash pickup during Wednesday's City Council meeting. The city paused a plan to transition from alley to curbside pickup earlier this month.

The planned hybrid approach would have impacted around 26,000 residents with eight- and nine-foot alleys, extended dead-end alleys, and homes that had front driveways. These households were scheduled to transition from alley pickup to curbside pickup in January.

The city plans to widen the scope of evaluation to include all 44,000 residents who live with eight- and nine-foot alleys citywide during October and November.

But District 13 resident Bradley Williams said

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