Zoning
Zoning is one of the most powerful tools a city can wield. It not only determines where buildings can go but also how neighborhoods grow and function — or don’t. No wonder folks in Dallas are engaging with the issue as the city embarks on a historic overhaul of its land use policies. The Dallas…
Another controversial rezoning request was approved by the Dallas City Council this week, marking another instance in which the drive to redevelop trumped neighborhood concerns at the horseshoe. However, officials mitigated the ordinance with additional stipulations, a move that will soon be outside their scope of power in a lot of cases when Senate Bill…
Dallas City Council members are still in recess (or on summer vacation, if you prefer), but planning commissioners were hard at work at City Hall considering a couple of controversial rezoning cases. So what else is new? Staff have also been dealing with a nascent revolt from residents living in single-family neighborhoods built around the…
City staff in Dallas have been making the rounds to give residents a sneak peak at what they’ve got cooking for zoning reform. As previously reported by CandysDirt.com, the city is embarking on a painstaking effort to simplify and modernize the portions of its voluminous development code that have to do with land use. The…
The Dallas City Council is going to consider eliminating a mechanism residents currently have to automatically delay rezoning cases. In Dallas, any rezoning request triggers mandatory public notification of property owners within a range of 200 feet of the project to ensure community awareness and participation in the development process. That notification comes in the…
