exelone31 wrote:Hey everyone, I saw this week that D Magazine has been posting stories from their new "Dallas and the New Urbanism" issue https://www.dmagazine.com/tag/dallas-and-the-new-urbanism/
I haven't gone through everything yet, but it seems like there's a lot of really solid content, so I figured I'd start a thread to discuss any particular topics from this issue. I feel like there's tons of overlap with a lot of the topics we chat about here on the forum.
hjkll wrote:What Souther Dallas should do is create a massive rezoning to spur single family home construction for young millennial couples and families. Couples who can't afford to be in Dallas, and don't want to or can't afford to buy a McMansion in the suburbs. Southern Dallas should be completely rezoned for small single family home developments, by minimizing lot size, eliminating front lawns deeper than 10 feet, and encouraging for reasonable townhouse development. I think if people could live in brand new starter homes for less than a quarter of a million dollars 5 minutes from Downtown and still have a small back yard- they would do it. But it would need to be a tremendous amount of capital all flowing in at once. I don't know anyone by themselves who would take the plunge.
Besides downtown/uptown and a few other parts of the city, let's be real, people don't come here to live in apartments.
North Oak Cliff Development Update Part 3: Townhomes Galore
...There are demo’d vacant lots in the middle of neighborhoods all over North Oak Cliff’s most popular entertainment district. I’ve found three new ones within the last week. Here’s the skinny on the last 10 projects under construction now, for a grand total of 27 individual projects.
Warrior2015 wrote:exelone31 wrote:Hey everyone, I saw this week that D Magazine has been posting stories from their new "Dallas and the New Urbanism" issue https://www.dmagazine.com/tag/dallas-and-the-new-urbanism/
I haven't gone through everything yet, but it seems like there's a lot of really solid content, so I figured I'd start a thread to discuss any particular topics from this issue. I feel like there's tons of overlap with a lot of the topics we chat about here on the forum.
I read in the article it saying dallas is behind Houston in urban development, how is that true?
cowboyeagle05 wrote:https://candysdirt.com/2018/07/02/north-oak-cliff-development-update-part-3-townhomes-galore/North Oak Cliff Development Update Part 3: Townhomes Galore
...There are demo’d vacant lots in the middle of neighborhoods all over North Oak Cliff’s most popular entertainment district. I’ve found three new ones within the last week. Here’s the skinny on the last 10 projects under construction now, for a grand total of 27 individual projects.
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Tucy wrote:Warrior2015 wrote:exelone31 wrote:Hey everyone, I saw this week that D Magazine has been posting stories from their new "Dallas and the New Urbanism" issue https://www.dmagazine.com/tag/dallas-and-the-new-urbanism/
I haven't gone through everything yet, but it seems like there's a lot of really solid content, so I figured I'd start a thread to discuss any particular topics from this issue. I feel like there's tons of overlap with a lot of the topics we chat about here on the forum.
I read in the article it saying dallas is behind Houston in urban development, how is that true?
It looks like it's based on this study of Walkable Urban Places, in which Houston ranks #15 and Dallas #25 out of 30 cities: https://smartgrowthamerica.org/app/legacy/documents/foot-traffic-ahead.pdf
The_Overdog wrote:I'm not sure all the Dallas ones are listed, so the data may be bad and by 'bad' my guess would be the ones in DFW are too new.
They list 9 for Dallas, with Uptown specifically being one - so just using named districts as approximations DFW has more than that. They also list Dallas proper as having 93% of the walkups in the DFW metro (similar to Houston), but that's not right either. Most major DFW suburbs have at least one WalkUp.
How many of Dallas' (or Houston's ) suburbs have areas that meet that definition?
The_Overdog wrote:How many of Dallas' (or Houston's ) suburbs have areas that meet that definition?
Possibly not that many, but that is because they are still significantly under construction. Cityline for example has a very low park score component of its Walkscore because the major park is still under construction (or was very recently dedicated, I can't remember which). But that's not even exactly true, there is a huge nature preserve connected by trails to CityLine, so their WalkScore park score component is just wrong.
Start with not great data, get not great results, but again that's probably because the area is so new it's score is probably mostly auto-generated.
And most cities could probably come up with similar quibbles.
muncien wrote:Unlike MT or Blue Ciel, Townhomes, and the relatively small stock of 'affordable' condos has been killin' it for the last several years in Dallas. As mentioned earlier, most of these are in the Oak Lawn, Knox/Henderson, and East Dallas areas. They have performed so well, that the townhomes in the Farmers Market are nowhere near affordable any more.
What we need are some developers to jump on that boat instead of the easy apartment project, or the overly ambitious 'luxury' condo.
ericthegardener wrote:Has anybody hear actually bought this issue of D Magazine? I went to four places on their distributor's list this morning and couldn't find it anywhere.
tamtagon wrote:I'm curious about these articles. I want to read them and all, but I have a feeling there's not much mentioned that hasn't already been more thoroughly discussed on this forum. Like, would my interest suffer during the read simply because it's a repeat?
mdg109 wrote:Yeah, I'll be there.
cowboyeagle05 wrote:Downtown Dallas Inc is like 50% marketing, 45% lobbying organization, 5% they manage actual programs that help Downtown. Downtown Dallas Inc does manage the Downtown Dallas clean up crew that you may have seen. They roll around with mobile cleaning carts much like the staff of a hotel and sweep trash from the gutters, sidewalks etc. Uptown Dallas has this cleaning crew thing as well but that one is managed by the Uptown Dallas organization. Downtown Dallas also has the Downtown Safety Patrol under their control.
Also a few years ago the city agreed to give Downtown Dallas Inc management of Downtown parks. Don't get confused though "Parks for Downtown" is the organization building new parks building Pacific Plaza, West End Plaza, and Harwood Park. Downtown Dallas Inc is in charge of coordinating maintenance and other improvements like the recently planned modifications to Main Street Gardens. They also are allowed to book events in the parks. Downtown Dallas Inc has no management of Klyde Warren of course since it has its own management structure.
While all these things are important I think they spend more of their efforts on lobbying and marketing.
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