ForwardDallas
If you live in Dallas, you may not know about the ForwardDallas land use plan, but you’ve probably heard the rumor about that “zoning thing that will allow apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.” On this episode of the Dallas Dirt podcast, we bust that myth and several others about this city planning initiative, and trace…
Friendship-West Baptist Church got a big win when Judge Aiesha Redmond of Dallas County’s 160th District Court granted an injunction that will halt the construction of an industrial warehouse on Wheatland Road near the southern Dallas megachurch. CandysDirt.com broke the story in May that neighbors and members of the megachurch congregation opposed Stonelake Capital Partners’…
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…
The Dallas Comprehensive Land Use Plan Committee spent six hours during a workshop Jan. 9 reviewing the draft ForwardDallas plan line by line. While the committee cleaned up clunky language and typographical errors — and had some intense discussions on things like housing density — what may have been most revealing were the public comments…
