ForwardDallas
At last. The ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive plan was officially adopted and is now the guiding document for future land use in the ninth-largest city in America. A lot of ink has been spilled about what led up to the Dallas City Council’s 11-4 vote to pass the document on Sept. 25. As always, some golden…
The ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan has been adopted — but the implementation phase has only just begun. In an 11-4 vote Wednesday evening, the Dallas City Council approved ForwardDallas, a plan that has been through numerous iterations, committees, and amendments over a three-year period. It was a long road and not everybody was…
In an 11 to 4 vote, the ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan was approved Wednesday with a slate of new amendments including a provision that the document be reviewed within five years. The adopted plan also includes amendments designed to protect single-family neighborhoods that were introduced earlier this month by Councilman Paul Ridley at…
You might say Dallas City Councilman Paul Ridley has been bearing the weight of the world — or at least the future of single-family neighborhoods if ForwardDallas has anything to say about it. The City of Dallas’ comprehensive land use plan heads to the City Council on Wednesday for a public hearing and possible vote…
Who’s afraid of a little ol’ land use plan? Well, for starters, a resident who has a five-story apartment building overlooking her backyard. An architect who thinks the plan should be scrapped and the process restarted from scratch. A Park and Recreation Board member who doesn’t want multiplexes in single-family neighborhoods. A woman who lives…
