comprehensive land use plan
In a new development that is surprising to no one, city officials said Thursday that the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan won’t go to City Council for approval until after the panel returns from a July recess. City Plan Commissioners determined last week that they want to hold a day-long public workshop beginning at 9…
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…
On this episode of Dallas Dirt, CandysDirt.com City Hall Editor April Towery spoke to one of the committee members who helped draft the controversial Forward Dallas, the comprehensive land use plan that is seemingly turning vocal homeowners against the city. Opponents have accused the city planning staff of having an agenda, but guest Nathaniel Barrett…
We get it. The ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan only informs zoning; it doesn’t assign it or regulate it. It’s not necessarily about housing, affordable or otherwise. It’s simply a guiding vision document that creates “placetypes” based on what kind of development should generally occur within the city limits. So why is everybody so mad…
We can tell you what was said during a Dallas City Council discussion last week on expanding housing development options and reducing minimum lot size requirements. We’ve pulled some great quotes from the two-hour briefing and heard what residents on both sides have to say. But you still might walk away wondering what’s really going…
