ForwardDallas
Before you get angry, literally no one — not the interim planning and urban design director nor District 1 Councilman Chad West — is proposing that single-family zoning be abolished citywide in Dallas. But one major U.S. municipality did just that, and a few years into the movement that allowed duplexes and triplexes to be…
In the wake of tough conversations about zoning and land use, Dallas staff has spent more than two years updating the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan, and city planners say the community will soon see the fruits of their labor. Interim Planning and Urban Design Director Andrea Gilles provided a brief update on ForwardDallas during…
The West Oak Cliff Area Plan came about through years of public input and rewrites, billed as a way to protect residents and their property rights, taking those rights back from developers. Now some South Edgefield residents — whose homes are adjacent to the WOCAP area — say it’s being used as a tool to…
A former Dallas city planner came out swinging last week at a $2 million consulting contract to overhaul the city’s zoning code. Properly-executed code rewrites cost up to $25 million, District 14 resident and former Dallas planner LaKisha Girder told the City Council at a June 14 meeting. A halfhearted, piecemeal approach won’t work when…
When plans to revitalize Southern Dallas were announced about a year ago, it seemed the vision was a win-win for everyone. There would be a mixed-use development with housing, retail, and restaurants near the University of North Texas Dallas. What could go wrong? A lot, according to some District 8 residents, who have called Stonelake…
