Joppa residents want to rezone their southern Dallas community to limit industrial polluters and bring in much needed development. After years of sounding the alarm over the environmental issues in their community, residents in the mostly minority community finally have City Hall support for the change.
A Dallas city plan commissioner told residents during Saturday’s Joppa Fall Festival that the city backed the idea of creating a planned development district for the area.
Caleb Roberts, the executive director of Downwinders at Risk, told KERA that the zoning tool offers “a la carte” zoning options that fit the needs and desires of a specific community…