The Dallas City Council is scheduled to vote Wednesday on FowardDallas, a comprehensive plan on how public and private land should be used.
Why it matters: City committees and residents have met for months to update the wide-ranging plan for the first time in almost 20 years.
- The plan aims to guide zoning decisions to ensure there is enough equitable housing in the city.
The big picture: Dallas leaders continue to grapple with the city’s racist past . The east-west Interstate 30 severs lower-income communities from the higher-income communities to the north.
- Dallas was the first Texas city to impose housing segregation by race in 1916.
Between the lines: The city first adopted a forward-looking land use plan in 2006 when faced with population growth that outpaced the housing supply.
- While development in the past two decades has increased housing options, it has also displaced communities, often in lower-income, diverse neighborhoods like West Dallas and North Oak Cliff.
State of play: The wide-ranging ForwardDallas draft establishes goals for land use and describes ideal urban development. It details what a dense neighborhood could look like versus a neighborhood with single-family homes on larger tracts of land.