City planners brief Dallas CPC on South Dallas–Fair Park area plan, request comments by May 2

City planning staff on April 24 briefed the Dallas City Plan Commission on a draft South Dallas–Fair Park area plan and asked the commission and the public to review the document and provide substantive comments by Friday, May 2. Lindsey Jackson, a City of Dallas planner, said the draft will be posted on the planning website and taken to a public hearing in May as part of the authorized‑hearing process to consider changes to Planned Development District No. 595.

The plan covers land use, zoning, housing and design guidance for South Dallas areas near Fair Park and transit stations. Jackson said the task force that produced the plan has been working for five years and that staff and community members want the document to be “an implementation plan and not sit on the shelf.” She asked commissioners to focus review on the land‑use, zoning and housing and design standards, and highlighted five…