Patrick Blaydes
Dallas staff is careful about which communities are selected for a labor-intensive area planning process. Area plans, which guide future land use, can be tedious. They require a ton of public engagement and willingness from neighbors to roll up their sleeves. But there’s something special about South Dallas/Fair Park. Its residents have heart, and that’s…
In a new development that is surprising to no one, city officials said Thursday that the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan won’t go to City Council for approval until after the panel returns from a July recess. City Plan Commissioners determined last week that they want to hold a day-long public workshop beginning at 9…
You might say that Forward Dallas, the City of Dallas’s comprehensive land use plan, has fallen victim to a curse of bad timing. When a controversial — yet hypothetical — zoning idea overlapped a news cycle with the city’s comprehensive Forward Dallas plan, it seems the issues got conflated, says Andrea Gilles, the interim Director…
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…
