Planning and Urban Design
We get it. The ForwardDallas comprehensive land use plan only informs zoning; it doesn’t assign it or regulate it. It’s not necessarily about housing, affordable or otherwise. It’s simply a guiding vision document that creates “placetypes” based on what kind of development should generally occur within the city limits. So why is everybody so mad…
Developers could soon be able to decide for themselves how many parking spaces are needed for a new housing complex or business. The Dallas parking code hasn’t been overhauled since 1965, and the city’s Zoning Ordinance Advisory Committee decided Tuesday it’s time for that to change with a vote to end minimum parking requirements. The…
When Dallas Director of Planning and Urban Design Julia Ryan announced her departure from the city, speculation swirled that all was not well at Marilla Street. Ryan’s resignation was announced in a memorandum from City Manager T.C. Broadnax, in which Dallas City Council members were advised that Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization Director David Noguera was…
Assistant directors of the Dallas Planning and Urban Design and Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization departments were tapped to serve as interim directors until the positions are permanently filled, City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced last week. The surprise departures of Housing Director David Noguera and Planning Director Julia Ryan were confirmed earlier this month. Noguera accepted…
The resignations of two outspoken Dallas department directors with major ties to housing were confirmed by city leaders late Friday. CandysDirt.com immediately reached out to Director of Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization David Noguera and Director of Planning and Urban Design Julia Ryan, with whom we’ve had an excellent rapport over the past few years. We…
