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Votes at a glance

- Item 26 — South Dallas Fair Park area plan: Approved. The commission adopted the area plan and added instructions for the authorized hearing to review existing duplex land uses for potential rezoning/right-zoning, review minimum lot widths and width-to-height ratios in R-5A, and set a 30-foot maximum height measured at the tallest roof point for single-family and duplex structures. (Motion carried; mover Commissioner Wheeler; second Commissioner Hampton.)

- Consent zoning items (cases 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10): Approved as read into the record. Staff had recommended approval for each; case 4 (SUP for bar/lounge/tavern) was approved for a 2-year period subject to site plan and conditions as briefed.

- Case 1 (Z234219, PD for residential and nonresidential on N. Beckley Ave.): Public hearing kept open and case put under advisement (continued to June 2025).

- Case 5 (renewal/amendment SUP for open-enrollment charter school, Z234253): Approved subject to amended site plan and amended conditions. Commissioners added an explicit ingress/egress condition: \"Ingress and egress must be provided in the location shown on the attached site plan. No other ingress or egress is permitted.\" (Motion carried.)

- Case 6 (SUP for private school, Z245172): Approved for a 5-year period with eligibility for automatic renewals subject to a site plan, a traffic management plan and conditions. The commission amended the schedule for traffic-study updates: the property owner/operator must submit an update to the traffic study by 11/01/2026, 11/01/2030, and every five years thereafter; an annual submittal requirement was removed.

- Case 11 (Z245115, SUP for sale of alcoholic beverages with general merchandise food store <3,500 sq ft): Approved for a 2-year period subject to site plan and conditions. Staff confirmed the location had provided required certification under the 12‑B ordinance and that alcohol was not yet being sold on site.

- Case 12 (KZ245124): Approved to rezone the property to R-7.5(A) single-family district as requested by the applicant.

- Case 13 (Z245122): Public hearing kept open and matter held under advisement to 05/22/2025.

- Case 14 (Z234262, new subdistrict for park and related uses near Trinity River/Harold Simmons Park): Approved subject to staff conditions; Commissioners amended a condition to require a minimum of 40 parking spaces for a special park project use in the new subdistrict.

- Case 15 (metal salvage facility SUP, Z245159): Approved subject to a site plan and conditions; commission shortened the SUP period to three years and required indoor-only sorting and bailing conditions (as briefed).

- Cases 16 and 17 (concrete/asphalt crushing renewal and authorized hearing): Case 16 was put under advisement to June 2025; case 17 (authorized hearing to evaluate compatibility of the SUP) was put under advisement to 06/26/2025.

- Subdivision consent agenda (cases 18–24): Approved in a single motion subject to the conditions listed in the docket.

- Case 25 (thoroughfare plan amendment for Grady Nibleau Road): Approved. The commission amended the thoroughfare plan to change Grady Nibleau Road between Mountain Creek Parkway and Merrifield Road from a standard 6-lane divided principal arterial (107-foot right-of-way) to a minimum 4-lane divided minor arterial (80-foot right-of-way) and recorded the alignment change for the unbuilt portion of the roadway.

Meeting notes

- Several items were held under advisement to June hearings as staff and applicants continue to resolve technical comments.
- The commission frequently amended staff-recommended conditions to require clearer ingress/egress language or to add specific review deadlines for follow-up studies (for example, traffic-study submittal dates for a school SUP).
- Multiple items were approved with site-plan and condition requirements; these will be enforced through the development review and permitting process.

If you are a party affected by one of the approvals above or seek more detail on a specific vote (tally by commissioner, exact condition text), consult the official minutes and staff reports on the City of Dallas planning website or contact the City of Dallas Planning Department for certified copies.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Dallas - City Planning Commission - May 08, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","Summary of formal votes and outcomes from the Dallas City Planning Commission meeting on May 8, 2025, including approvals on zoning, special use permits, and the South Dallas Fair Park area plan.","taxTitle","Dallas, Dallas County, Texas","taxId",2781,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":75,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":76,"_41":77,"_43":78,"_45":79,"_46":80,"_48":81,"_50":82,"_52":83,"_54":55,"_56":57,"_58":84,"_60":61,"_62":63,"_64":85,"_66":67,"_68":69,"_70":67,"_71":72,"_73":72},6558765,"City planning commission adopts South Dallas Fair Park area plan, directs authorized hearing on duplexes and lot sizes",4696,2267000,6963000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3231241-0fa784d97683c9f1d8ab70efc08275b0&start=2267&end=6963","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3231241-0fa784d97683c9f1d8ab70efc08275b0/thumbnail_2267000.jpg","/articles/6558765/Dallas/Dallas-County/Texas/City-planning-commission-adopts-South-Dallas-Fair-Park-area-plan-directs-authorized-hearing-on-duplexes-and-lot-sizes","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6558765-bec6decd3927ba1c01c16bf87cd3abcc/orig.mp4?Expires=1770454425&Signature=S~HgAnyYnbp8CaAtWc6Lfbgi63D4LmjeDhZfLtFYkwoJtMDj834r6okiIF2xdbhcSvClYrfrlNyNrHzDdyUyD3yuLgdpitRDw4ZziR8qDbpPEuRI9tHnR7TqdA4Yk07YP--~O38Fx0ycoxXgLgrdMCRZOD4KusTwebZoPq3dBp0auRDLMru569SJlILal2L4SPPwxzSfKEplLmSD-r36Cn2ueLRWwjvCFvEordf1Gg8J3a3YFTVmHIROoRnN4Nj1c1lzTWDuX0eYFGicQqrxoBjigSDoRqH3ilVCi4vHx2r2NDNb1x13aLje94oPyvxjfITy6IeUuIwuxOsCbHJwVw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Dallas City Planning Commission adopted the South Dallas Fair Park area plan on May 8, 2025, advancing a package of neighborhood design standards and directing an authorized hearing to review zoning for duplexes and certain lot-size rules.

The commission approved the plan after public comment and debate about how to preserve neighborhood character and prevent displacement. The commission's motion added specific instructions for the authorized hearing: review existing duplex land uses and “right‑zone” properties that have historically functioned as duplexes; examine minimum lot widths and width-to-height ratios in the R-5A district; set a maximum height of 30 feet for single-family and duplex structures measured at the tallest roof point; and allow live-work units where the dwelling floor area may exceed the floor area of the main commercial use. The motion was made and seconded from the dais and carried after an aye vote.

Community leaders who helped craft the plan urged adoption and stressed implementation. \"What we present to you today is not just a document. It's a product of years of conversation, deliberation, collaboration, compromise, debate, care,\" said Scotty Smith II, chair of the South Dallas Fair Park Area Task Force. Diane Ragsdale, a long-time South Dallas resident and task-force member, described recent construction she called \"grossly incompatible\" with established lot patterns and urged the commission to require design standards and limit heights. \"We need to develop design criteria…to first and foremost benefit people who live there,\" Ragsdale told commissioners.

Speakers and staff emphasized that adoption is a milestone, not the finish line. Carrie Mitchell of Dallas Free Press said neighbors worked for years and urged the city to move quickly from plan to zoning: \"The plan represents both the improvements and the protections they want to see in their community. For this reason, it should receive your approval…and city council's approval as well. But if it remains simply a plan, it won't have the power to transform South Dallas.\"

City planning staff and the task force outlined next steps that will come through an authorized hearing, where planners will convert area-plan recommendations into specific zoning language and development standards. Planner Patrick Blades told the commission staff and the task force agreed that height should be measured at the highest roof point. \"The task force's feedback was that the highest point should be limited to 30 feet,\" Blades said during the hearing.

Debate during the hearing highlighted two connected issues: (1) a recent increase in narrow, 25-foot-wide lot development in parts of South Dallas that residents and some commissioners said is inconsistent with neighborhood scale; and (2) longstanding nonconforming duplexes that predate current zoning. Property owner Isaiah Payne told the commission that some duplexes built decades ago are now treated as nonconforming if left vacant six months, a condition he said has prompted enforcement actions: \"If you sell or own a duplex and it's unoccupied for 6 months, … you lose its ability to be a duplex,\" Payne said. Commissioners and staff agreed the authorized hearing should inventory and address those legacy cases as part of rezoning work.

Supporters pressed the commission to follow the plan with financing and city action. Task force members and residents asked that the planning department and City Council keep the authorized hearing on an expedited path and tie the plan to concrete implementation steps. Commissioner remarks at the hearing reflected that sentiment; commissioners praised the task force and staff for the years of community engagement that produced the plan and emphasized that the next phase must be implementation rather than another long study.

The commission approved the area plan with the amendments described above. The authorization for follow-up zoning work means staff will prepare text and maps for the authorized hearing; that hearing will be the formal venue to adopt the zoning changes needed to implement the plan's design and lot-width recommendations.

How this matters: the adopted plan covers a roughly bounded South Dallas area—Haskell Avenue to the north, the Southern Pacific Central Bypass rail line to the east, Botham Jean Boulevard to the south, and the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail line to the west—and is meant to guide future development, land-use changes and design rules. Residents and developers will watch the authorized-hearing process closely because it will determine where duplexes, townhomes and other housing types are allowed and what design standards they must meet.

Next steps: staff will prepare materials to carry the plan into an authorized hearing. The commission’s motion specifically directs that hearing to review existing land uses for duplexes, consider minimum lot widths and width-to-height ratios in R-5A areas, and implement the 30-foot maximum measured at the highest roof point for single-family and duplex structures. The timeline for the authorized hearing was not set at the public meeting; community speakers asked that the city move quickly to implement the plan's action items.

Voices recorded in the hearing included task-force leaders, long-time residents, property owners and news media representatives who described both broad support for the plan and pointed concerns about lot splits, building scale, and protecting homeownership and neighborhood character.","The Dallas City Planning Commission on May 8 adopted the South Dallas Fair Park area plan and added instructions for an authorized hearing to review existing duplex land uses, minimum lot widths and width-to-height ratios and to cap house heights at 30 feet measured at the highest roof point.","actionData","errors"]

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Votes at a glance: key actions from the Dallas City Planning Commission, May 8, 2025

City planning commission adopts South Dallas Fair Park area plan, directs authorized hearing on duplexes and lot sizes