City planners hold Preston Hollow Village open-space plan after neighbors dispute fulfillment of PD 750 requirements

The Dallas City Planning Commission on Thursday held a development-and-landscape plan for the Preston Hollow Village portion of Plan Development District (PD) No. 750 under advisement after neighbors and the developer disagreed about whether the PD’s large-open-space requirements have been satisfied.

Staff presented a formal development plan for portions of Subdistrict C (tracks C, D and F) at the northwest corner of North Central Expressway and Walnut Hill Lane. The application covers roughly 6.323 acres in Council District 11 and would formalize construction of a roughly 3-acre large open space, pedestrian connections and streetscape elements. Planning staff recommended approval of the plan but commissioners opted to hold the case to allow further negotiation with neighborhood representatives.

The dispute centers on language in PD 750 requiring a minimum of 3 acres of required landscape area to be provided and maintained within the large open space and completed within two years of issuance of certificates of occupancy for a minimum of 500 dwelling units. Staff planner Sharon Blue told the commission that the PD’s “final location of large open space must be shown on a development plan,” and that the district’s controlling language allows some adjustment of the open-space footprint when the development plan is filed.…