Less than a month after the ForwardDallas 2.0 comprehensive land use plan was approved — following an intense debate over the protection of single-family neighborhoods — preservationists are championing duplexes in a historic district.
At an Oct. 7 meeting of the Dallas HIstoric Landmark Commission, the panel heard proposals for three duplexes in the Tenth Street Historic District, an area of southern Dallas where Plan Commissioner Tom Forsyth and City Councilwoman Carolyn King Arnold have been outspoken about the need to keep single-family neighborhoods as they are.
“I’m going to stand with the protection of single-family neighborhoods,” Arnold said as she voted against the land use plan on Sept.25…