Parking Reform Advances

Parking reform has passed one more milestone! On March 20th, the City Plan Commission (CPC) recommended Parking Reform to Dallas City Council. 

The final CPC proposal provides immense opportunity for context-sensitive housing and small business development by moving toward flexible parking mandates across the city. Benefits include:

• Neighborhood-scale restaurants will be able to thrive in walkable mixed use areas, while apartments can be designed around people first;
• Office buildings can be re-imagined without additional costs and space for parking garages;.
• Areas around light rail and streetcar stations can evolve into walkable neighborhoods without forcing auto-dependency;
• Streamlining development and adding predictability in the permitting process, encouraging new attainable-priced housing to be built, and protecting single-family homes. 

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Removing parking mandates downtown and within 1/2-mile of light rail and streetcar stations
• Removing parking mandates for office and most retail properties
• Removing parking mandates from industrial properties except when next to a single-family home
• Reducing parking mandates for single-family homes and duplex homes to a minimum of one parking space
• Reducing mandates for multifamily from one space per bedroom to one-half space per unit
• Reducing parking mandates for restaurants and bars, and removing mandates completely for those under 2,500 square feet
• Updating bicycle parking design standards to encourage top quality bicycle facilities

Parking Reform will move to the City Council this spring for a final vote. Stay tuned and continue to weigh in with your voice and vision for Dallas.

Dallas Zoning Reform

Dallas Zoning Reform is coming! The City of Dallas will be working to update the Dallas Development Code to create a set of rules that is simple, clear, and future ready! This reform will create a modern-user-friendly code that implements ForwardDallas 2.0. Stay tuned to learn how you can get involved.

DallasNow launches May 5th

The City of Dallas is changing the way we do Permitting, Planning, Zoning & Inspections! DallasNow will replace our current systems including ProjectDox. The new cloud-based system will  improve customer transparency and enhance customer service.

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