{"id":164903,"date":"2025-08-21T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164903\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:28:10","slug":"residents-worry-progressing-zoning-proposal-threatens-dallas-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/164903\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents worry progressing zoning proposal threatens Dallas neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DALLAS<\/strong> – As the City of Dallas looks to make room for more housing, homeowners are, once again, finding themselves at odds with city planning staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Homeowners in northwest Dallas are concerned about one development in particular that would bring three-story homes with little open space in between.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dallas zoning proposal \"\" <\/p>\n

What we know:<\/p>\n

Homeowners are concerned that the proposal would allow for about ten homes in the space where there would traditionally only be one home with a front and back yard.<\/p>\n

One Dallas resident said the city was never meant for 50 homes to be “crammed” into “spaces the size of tennis courts.”<\/p>\n

Homeowners in the northwest Dallas neighborhood in question say they never expected towering three-story homes two feet from the street to be built next to their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another resident told FOX 4 their concern is about privacy, worrying that with homes only 14 feet apart, people could easily see into private spaces.<\/p>\n

The developing land is where a church used to sit before it was destroyed in an October 2019 tornado.<\/p>\n

\u2018Allow us to keep our quiet neighborhood\u2019 \"\" <\/p>\n

What they’re saying:<\/p>\n

“Who would pay $1 million for one foot between homes, room for one SUV? They say empty nesters – they don’t want three stories. Young families, I would not want,” one resident said.<\/p>\n

Residents say the proposal will create traffic problems on their narrow street.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Virginia Worley has lived in the neighborhood for 50 years.<\/p>\n

“Allow us to keep our quiet neighborhood with churches, schools, parks,” Worley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The developer says they’ve scaled back plans, and the three-story homes would now be further from homes on Wimberley Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Avoiding the classic issue of building something that towers over something next door,” the developer said.<\/p>\n

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But homeowners say that classic issue is still there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Noble cause to increase density, but can’t cram as many homes as possible. Developers met one time and threatened an apartment complex,” said resident John Wimberly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The applicant, former Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston, argued the development is appropriate for the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

In the end, the city planning commission approved the proposal, but it must still go before the Dallas City Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That is expected to happen in about six weeks.<\/p>\n

The Source:<\/b> Information in this report came from the City of Dallas and residents of the developing area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS – As the City of Dallas looks to make room for more housing, homeowners are, once again,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-164903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115069118963472957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}