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Dallas planning commission advances parking-code overhaul; hearing continued to March 4
Summary
The City Planning Commission continued consideration of a broad rewrite of Dallas’s off-street parking and loading rules after a lengthy discussion of multiple amendments. Commissioners approved several targeted changes and asked staff to return a revised draft for a March 4 public hearing.
The Dallas City Planning Commission spent more than six hours on Feb. 13 debating a major rewrite of the city’s off-street parking and loading regulations — the code amendment that would eliminate many citywide minimums, add new design standards and introduce a transportation-demand-management framework. After layered amendments and votes the commission voted to hold the public hearing open and continue consideration on March 4 so staff can prepare a consolidated draft.
The parking proposal before the commission was the ZOAC and staff package known as DCA 190-002. It includes options to eliminate minimums for many land uses citywide, keep minimums for selected districts or uses to protect single-family neighborhoods, add standards for loading and short-term pick-up/drop-off, and require clearer visitor-parking accommodations at multifamily developments.
Key votes and actions - The commission approved keeping residential district (RD) and townhouse (TH) minimums in place but reduced those minimums to 1 space per dwelling unit for those districts. - Commissioners adopted a requirement that…
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