City Plan Commission
A mixed-use development at Preston Center West that will include 180 housing units was recommended for approval Thursday by the City Plan Commission. Residents have voiced concerns about traffic, parking, and alleged incompatibility with an area plan, but you wouldn’t know it from the lack of discussion at the CPC meeting, as just one resident…
A Dallas real estate developer is petitioning the City Plan Commission to allow two multifamily buildings he owns near Bishop Arts to continue operating as short-term rentals despite a pending legal matter that could ban such activity in residential neighborhoods. There’s another challenge, too. The builder and property owner, Christian Chernock, is the city plan…
Just one week after Dallas plan commissioners said they didn’t want a watered-down ForwardDallas land use plan, residents showed up en masse at a public meeting to say they won’t stand for anything that threatens the integrity of their single-family neighborhoods. During almost three hours of testimony on April 18, city plan commissioners also heard…
The City Plan Commission kicked off a series of workshops last week on the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan. They talked about density, placetypes, and parking requirements — and they acknowledged the plan has not been well-received by a contingent of residents who are concerned it will change or even destroy their long-established single-family neighborhoods. …
At a time when trust in Dallas’ public officials appears to be at an all-time low, a former city plan commissioner pointed out that a Preston Center West rezoning request was poised for approval without a community meeting that was promised two years ago. Claire Stanard, who represented District 13 on the City Plan Commission…
