After many months, amendments and debates, Dallas City Council voted Wednesday 11-4 to approve ForwardDallas 2.0. Contention over the plan pitted those favoring higher-density housing — meaning apartments — against homeowners in single-family residential areas who fear its effect on their neighborhoods and property values. The document is the city’s first attempt at tackling a comprehensive land-use plan since 2006.
“Today, we’ve got to move forward, and I hope all my colleagues move forward with me,” said Mayor Pro Tem Tennell Atkins, who voted to pass ForwardDallas, before the vote took place.
“Land-use planning is at the heart of everything we do in the city,” said council member Chad West as he encouraged the plan’s passage. “It’s because of what I’ve learned in the trenches in the last seven years that I support ForwardDallas 2.0.”…