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Planning commission backs updating demolition‑delay triggers to accept past, present and future surveys
Summary
The commission voted to amend the Demolition Delay Overlay so city‑commissioned historic surveys beyond the two currently listed can trigger the 45‑day review, and to modernize a state designation name; staff said the change avoids repeated code amendments as new surveys are completed.
The Dallas City Planning Commission voted to approve changes to the city’s Demolition Delay Overlay (DDO) that will allow the code to reference past, present and future historic surveys when determining whether a 45‑day demolition delay applies.
Staff said the current ordinance references two specific surveys (a 1994 Hardy Hecker survey and a 2003 downtown Dallas survey) as the triggers that place a property in the DDO review process. Planning staff asked to broaden the code…
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