Transportation & Real Estate
Dallas plan commissioners continued review Thursday of a proposal to reduce or eliminate minimum parking requirements for new development. Following several hours of discussion and a public hearing that drew 19 speakers, commissioners made more amendments to the proposal on the floor and scheduled another special-called meeting for 9 a.m. March 4. Chief Planners Michael…
Some Dallasites have been waiting five years for the City’s parking code to be overhauled, so what’s another month or two, right? The City Plan Commission last week heard from 21 residents — all but two of whom voiced support for eliminating minimum parking requirements for new development — and determined they’d take up the…
Dallas real estate developers may soon get to decide for themselves how many parking spaces are needed for new construction — rather than adhering to minimum requirements that reform advocates say have left the city with ugly, vacant lots and business deals that won’t pencil. The argument for parking reform is that no savvy business…
It looks like the construction of a much anticipated private, luxury terminal at DFW Airport is finally moving along. Some $4 million of work on a 15,517-square-foot space is set to begin on Jan. 6, with a completion date of Jan. 31, according to a recent filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.…
An initiative to keep cyclists safer on Maple Avenue is drawing criticism from a group of business owners who say they were never notified about a proposed city plan to transform the busy thoroughfare from four lanes to two — cutting the corridor’s traffic and access to their businesses in half. As part of the…
