parking reform
After several painstaking years reimagining parking minimums and devising an update to the city’s comprehensive land use plan, Dallas officials are embarking on their next great effort: zoning reform. The city is putting out a call for residents and stakeholders to get involved in the process, scheduling a number of public engagement events this month…
Another week of City Hall business yielded some transformational updates to the development code, marking another signal achievement of the current Dallas City Council. Between passing ForwardDallas 2.0 last September and finally accomplishing parking reform this past week, council members are setting the stage for the city’s future growth and development — just not to…
With a 14-1 majority, Dallas City Council members voted to reduce or abolish parking minimums across multiple development types on Wednesday, finally putting parking reform to bed after staff began the effort almost six years ago. Only Council Member Cara Mendelsohn (District 12) voted against the ordinance, even though others had concerns about the potential…
Well, parking reform has finally hit the full city council at Dallas City Hall, and it’s looking to be as contentious and elusive as you’d expect. Council members got their first briefing as a body on Wednesday, and it’s apparent they’re divided on the hodge-podge proposal hitting the horseshoe. We’ve got the latest on that…
City staff got put in the hot seat on Monday during a meeting of the Dallas Economic Development Committee, during which the controversial subject of parking reform was discussed. As previously reported by CandysDirt.com, Dallas’s City Plan Commission (CPC) advanced a measure that would eliminate or decrease the minimum parking spaces that developers are required…
