Andreea Udrea
The matter of rezoning the Preston Center West shopping center to allow for a high-rise office building and apartment complex is set for the Dallas City Plan Commission’s Thursday, March 21, agenda. The development proposal — which drew criticism from former District 13 Plan Commissioner Claire Stanard — was set for a CPC agenda two…
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Dallas City Council members granted a controversial rezoning Wednesday to allow a group home on South Polk Street to continue operations as a multifamily dwelling in a single-family neighborhood. A code complaint was filed by a neighbor last summer after operators remodeled the nine-bedroom home into individual units for formerly unhoused military veterans, prompting applicant…
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It’s been a bad year for preserving historic homes in Dallas. We are losing homes built by significant architects at an alarming rate. Recently, there was quite a social media outcry over the demise of a 1932 Clifford D. Hutsell on Lakewood Blvd. The comments on various posts made me realize that the majority of…
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Dallas planning staff is ready to revamp the city’s antiquated, one-size-fits-all parking code and anticipates bringing amendments before the City Council by the end of this year. During a briefing Wednesday, Assistant Planning and Urban Design Director Andreea Udrea said the current code has been in place since 1965. “We all agree that it’s outdated,…
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About $4.4 million has been collected since May for a little-known affordable housing incentive program known as the Mixed-Income Housing Development Bonus. The MIHDB fund was created by the Dallas City Council last year to provide incentives like changes in height, floor area ratio, density, or parking reduction in exchange for on-site affordable units. Developers…
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