“Walkable” zoning regulations expected to pass council today
We’ve written here and there about form-based zoning, a major element of the Forward Dallas plan that’s intended to bring more classically-styled, walkable neighborhoods to the suburban frontier that...
View ArticleForm-based zoning in Dallas – a clarification
Yesterday, I threw out a little item about the planned vote on form-based zoning amendments that was delayed at the City Council. Quite a crowd showed up for the vote, including some people who have...
View ArticleDallas City Hall Monitor: Thursday, December 4, 2008
We had a busy day yesterday at City Hall. And the coming days promise to be just as busy as we build up to the last council agenda day of the year next week. Let’s have a quick look at what’s going on...
View ArticleForm-based zoning vote delayed at Dallas City Council
After months of back and forth over the best way to bring Dallas some real urban zoning laws, the City Council has deferred a vote on a new form-based zoning ordinance until late February. There...
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Trinity Trust to host urban living forum
For those of you interested in city living, new urbanism, the Trinity project and form-based zoning, there’s an interesting to do come Monday. The Trinity Trust is hosting a forum with Larry Beasley,...
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Dallas City Hall Monitor: Thursday, January 22, 2009
Busy Wednesday at City Hall. First, a quick apology for a slip-up in yesterday’s monitor. I had the City Council down for a budget briefing. For some reason, City Manager Mary Suhm and Mayor Leppert...
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Urban planning in Dallas – a recap of Wednesday’s City Council meeting
Yesterday’s urban planning forum at the downtown library provided quite of few ideas on how Dallas should develop in coming years. One of the most important tools of that future development will be...
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Dallas City Hall Monitor: Tuesday, January 27, 2009
- Let’s kick the morning off with the Trinity project meeting and an update on the planned Parkway. At the last briefing on the Parkway’s progress, NTTA engineer Dan Chapman basically told the...
View ArticleForm-based zoning plan moves forward in Dallas
Late Tuesday afternoon, before the ice blew in but after most of City Hall and the rest of downtown had already cleared out, there was an important vote at the City Council’s Housing Committee...
View ArticleForm-based zoning now law in Dallas
Reports my reporter-in-arms, Rudy Bush, about Dallas’ push for form-based zoning: The council passed an important amendment to the city’s development code, creating a new type of zoning intended to...
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