Planning and Urban Design
Just in time for the update of the City’s controversial comprehensive land use plan, Dallas has a new director of planning and urban design. Emily Liu, who most recently served as director of Louisville, Ky.’s Metro Planning and Design Services, will start her new job May 20, city officials announced Tuesday. Andrea Gilles, who has…
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Residents and developers are invited to weigh in today and tomorrow on a proposed Dallas development code change that would limit impervious coverage for residential and nonresidential development. Impervious coverage, according to the City of Dallas, is any surface that prevents or substantially impedes the natural infiltration of stormwater into the ground, and includes, but…
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The City Plan Commission kicked off a series of workshops last week on the ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan. They talked about density, placetypes, and parking requirements — and they acknowledged the plan has not been well-received by a contingent of residents who are concerned it will change or even destroy their long-established single-family neighborhoods. …
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Editor’s Note: The Dallas City Council approved the Historic and Cultural Preservation Strategy on April 11. Dallas staff was tasked in late 2022 with developing a community-vetted vision to preserve the city’s historic structures. Their efforts were on display last week during a Dallas City Council briefing. The Dallas preservation program was created 50 years…
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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…
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