ForwardDallas
By Michael AmonettCandysDirt.com Contributor Chief planner Patrick Blaydes held up two documents multiple times at the District 1 Forward Dallas meeting last week: a copy of ForwardDallas and a copy of the Dallas Development Code. Each time he stressed, “This (ForwardDallas) is not this (Dallas Development). Just because it’s in here (FD), doesn’t mean it…
All the elements were in place for a perfect storm of a town hall meeting Monday evening. More than 100 people gathered, many wielding signs displaying their aversion to the Dallas comprehensive land use plan known as ForwardDallas. The meeting was called by District 1 Councilman Chad West who, with his appointed Plan Commissioner Christian…
By Rudy KarimiCandysDirt.com Contributor ForwardDallas may literally be the biggest thing to go through City Hall in decades, but shockingly few are talking about it. I get it, it can be a challenge to activate our residents on civic matters. As a proud member of the Dallas Park and Recreation Board, I am passionate about…
A casual observer at Monday’s City Plan Commission meeting might think the panel’s compromise — an agreement of sorts to discourage developers from building multiplexes in the midst of single-family neighborhoods — would be met with cheers from the crowd so adamantly opposed to previous iterations of the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan. They’d be…
Dallas plan commissioners on Monday voted unanimously to recommend changing multiplexes from a primary to secondary use in the “Community Residential” — or single-family neighborhood — placetype of the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan. A new draft of ForwardDallas was posted last week — billed as a compromise with a preference toward greater density on…
