Across Dallas, housing affordability continues to be a real challenge. The city is now embarking on its first zoning reform in decades.
City leaders aim to boost housing supply, support sustainable growth, and make the development process more transparent. They are currently reviewing what’s working, what needs to change, and gathering public input.
Author weighs in on zoning
As part of her “Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World” book tour, author and zoning expert Sara Bronin is partnering with the Dallas Housing Coalition to share her thoughts. She points out that single-family zoning is currently the dominant land-use type in Dallas.
“Zoning dictates what can be built where, so it will say, for example, that you can only build a single-family home in this neighborhood or that you can only build a factory in that neighborhood,” she said. “My thought about zoning is that we should try and make it more flexible and more open.”…