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City staff briefs Dallas Planning Commission on zoning-code rewrite, emphasizes more outreach and technical follow-ups
Summary
City planning staff and consultants updated the Dallas City Planning Commission on a diagnostic for a wholesale development-code rewrite — a public outreach phase continues with more virtual sessions in July and a public draft targeted for late 2025.
City planning staff and consultants briefed the Dallas City Planning Commission on the citywide development-code rewrite diagnostic on Thursday, outlining outreach findings from a series of community meetings and next steps in drafting a new code.
The staff presentation summarized public input gathered this month at neighborhood meetings, noting recurring themes: housing diversity (including accessory dwelling units), special-use permits (SUPs) for industrial uses, and administrative flexibilites. Staff said their diagnostic intends to preserve single-family districts while creating new parallel districts that would allow additional housing types in appropriate locations. The consultant also described proposed refinements to residential-proximity-slope…
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