Dallas Development Code News Today

The Council unanimously decided to walk back a 2010 ordinance that allowed smaller historic homes to be demolished.

An obscure rule has made it much easier for the city of Dallas to tear down smaller historic homes, disproportionately impacting Black neighborhoods like Tenth Street. That may change this month.

Dallas' development code has allowed for the demolition of historic structures under 3,000 square feet. Now, that practice could be coming to an end.

An obscure rule has made it much easier for the city of Dallas to tear down smaller historic homes, disproportionately impacting Black neighborhoods like Tenth Street. That may change this month.

Some on Council want to know what it will take to get more duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes built in single-family neighborhoods. The policy could bring us closer to our southern neighbors.

Our Dallas history shows that when a higher use (commercial) is allowed in a lower zoning category (residential), the higher use will eventually prevail....

The ForwardDallas initiative is attempting for the Holy Grail of planning: development certainty.