Hundreds of Dallas residents are engaging with the process of zoning reform as the city pursues modernization of the land use part of its development code. Who said Dallasites weren’t invested in the future of their city?
Over the past few months, the Planning & Development Department (PDD) has been meeting with stakeholders and hosting public engagement sessions to get feedback on its initial code diagnostic, which identified onerous zoning hurdles and outlined some rough recommendations to both simplify the code and implement ForwardDallas 2.0.
PDD Deputy Director Andreea Udrea, speaking at the Dallas Housing Coalition’s 2025 Housing Summit on Friday, said that the current code is outdated, having been basically fleshed out in the 1960s and only tinkered with in the 1980s.
She pointed to the proliferation of planned development districts (PDs) as evidence of the need for significant zoning reform…