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Zoning Case Under Advisement (Z-25-000229)
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Confirm whether June vote approved or delayed industrial rezoning
Why now: Item 19 shows 'Carried: 11 to 0' on June 11, 2026, yet the July 23, 2026 entry for Z-25-000229 still lists it as held over from May 7 and June 11.
What to do: Pull the June 11 minutes and the motion language behind the 11-0 vote to determine whether the commission approved the application or voted to continue it, since the case reappeared on the July 23 agenda still carried over from both May 7 and June 11. Ask the planner in writing whether re-notice was required for the third setting — clients relying on a June approval date for their timeline may be relying on a vote that decided something else.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Get written conditions for Cleveland Road industrial rezoning
Why now: Staff recommended approval subject to conditions at all three hearings on May 7, June 11 and July 23, 2026 for the planned development district application on the south line of Cleveland Road west of Lancaster-Hutchins Road (Z-25-000229), planner Martin Bate.
What to do: Ask planner Martin Bate for the current conditions list attached to the staff approval recommendation before assuming full light industrial rights on this agricultural tract — after two deferrals the conditions have likely been rewritten from the version circulated in May. Underwriting warehouse or manufacturing square footage off the base zoning label instead of the conditioned development plan risks pricing a use the plan no longer permits.
Act before: After the next material record update
Ask why farmland-to-industrial case stalled across three hearings
Why now: Z-25-000229 appeared May 7, June 11 and July 23, 2026 with 'Approval, subject to conditions' each time, was heard individually from the consent docket (14-0), and still carried 11-0 on June 11 without resolution.
What to do: Ask the planning department why an application carrying a staff approval recommendation at every appearance was pulled off the consent docket to be heard individually and then held over twice. Request the sign-in and opposition correspondence for all three settings — the pattern of a unanimous commission repeatedly declining to finish a case staff endorsed usually signals unresolved neighbor or condition disputes that never made it into the agenda text.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Check truck route and buffer rules near Cleveland Road
Why now: The application converts land zoned A(A) Agricultural to a planned development district for LI Light Industrial uses on the south line of Cleveland Road west of Lancaster-Hutchins Road, and has been held over from May 7 and June 11 to July 23, 2026.
What to do: If you live near Cleveland Road west of Lancaster-Hutchins Road, ask planner Martin Bate for the conditions covering hours of operation, screening, lighting and truck access on this farmland-to-light-industrial conversion. Once the commission finishes the case those conditions are fixed in the development plan, and the repeated hold-overs are the last practical window to get a buffer or access restriction added.
Act before: After the commission takes final action on the application
Gilliland Properties Planned Development Amendment at Alpha Road and Preston Road (Z-26-000079)
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Request conditions text behind unanimous Preston Road zoning vote
Why now: The record shows only a summary recommendation and an 11-0 vote on Item 11; the actual conditions, the amended plan, and the next procedural step are not stated in the file for Z-26-000079.
What to do: Request from planner Mona Hashemi the full conditions list and the amended development plan referenced in the July 23 staff recommendation, then confirm in writing whether the Plan Commission's 11-0 vote concludes the case or whether a further governing body must act. Without that document, you cannot advise a client on what compliance obligations attach to the site or when any objection period runs.
Act before: After the requested conditions and plan documents are produced
Pull amended development plan for Alpha and Preston rezoning
Why now: Staff's recommendation shifted from 'Approval, subject to conditions' on June 11, 2026 to 'Approval, subject to an amended development plan and conditions' on July 23, 2026 for the Planned Development District No. 17 amendment at the southeast corner of Alpha Road and Preston Road.
What to do: Obtain the amended development plan that staff attached to its July 23 recommendation and compare it line-by-line to the plan circulated for the June 11 hearing — the site's permitted uses, layout, or intensity were changed between the two hearings. Designing to the June version risks a resubmittal on a site that is already conditioned.
Act before: After the amended development plan and conditions are obtained
Ask why Preston Road zoning case stalled six weeks
Why now: The item was held from June 11, 2026 to July 23, 2026, staff's recommendation gained an 'amended development plan' requirement, and the case still carried 11 to 0 with applicant John Falb / Gilliland Properties II and representative Rob Baldwin.
What to do: Request both the June 11 and July 23 staff reports for this Planned Development District amendment and ask the planning department what changed during the roughly six-week hold that caused staff to require an amended development plan. The commission then approved it 11-0 with no recorded dissent, so the substantive negotiation happened off the dais and only the documents will show it.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Extra Space Storage — Avenue and Hedgerow Drive (Z-25-000230)
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Compare development plan and site plan exhibits for storage rezoning
Why now: Staff recommended approval subject to a development plan, landscape plan, and conditions on June 11, 2026, but subject to a site plan, landscape plan, and conditions on July 23, 2026 in the same case (Z-25-000230), planner Martin Bate.
What to do: Request from the planner the exhibits attached at each hearing and ask which controls the approval: the June recommendation was conditioned on a development plan, while the July recommendation was conditioned on a site plan plus the added specific use permit. Ask in writing whether the specific use permit carries a time limit or separate conditions, because that answer governs renewal exposure and any later enforcement dispute.
Act before: After the requested exhibits and conditions are produced
Confirm self-storage needs two approvals at Lemmon and Hedgerow
Why now: The June 11, 2026 filing sought only a new subdistrict, while the July 23, 2026 item for the same file (Z-25-000230) added a second request for a specific use permit for a mini-warehouse, with staff recommending approval subject to a site plan, landscape plan, and conditions.
What to do: If you are planning a mini-warehouse or self-storage project inside Planned Development District No. 193, budget for two separate approvals rather than one: a new Light Commercial subdistrict plus a standalone specific use permit for the mini-warehouse use. Pull the approved site plan, landscape plan, and conditions from this case as your template, since assuming the subdistrict alone authorizes storage will cost you a hearing cycle.
Act before: After the next material record update
Ask why storage permit was added after June zoning hearing
Why now: The June 11, 2026 item sought only a new Light Commercial subdistrict, while the July 23, 2026 item, held under advisement from June 11, added a specific use permit for a mini-warehouse under the same file number Z-25-000230 with applicant Extra Space Storage and representative Kiesha Kay.
What to do: Request the case file and staff correspondence for this Lemmon Avenue application from planner Martin Bate covering June 11 through July 23, and ask whether the self-storage use was disclosed when the item was first advertised as a subdistrict-only request. The answer determines whether neighbors who reviewed the June notice ever saw a mini-warehouse proposal before it was recommended for approval.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Read screening conditions for storage building at Lemmon and Hedgerow
Why now: The July 23, 2026 staff recommendation for Z-25-000230 was approval of a mini-warehouse specific use permit subject to a site plan, landscape plan, and conditions, following a June 11, 2026 hearing on the same property.
What to do: Ask the planner for the landscape plan and the written conditions attached to the mini-warehouse approval at the south corner of Lemmon Avenue and Hedgerow Drive, and check them for buffering, lighting, and access from Hedgerow. Conditions are far easier to influence while the plan documents are still being finalized than after the permit is in effect.
Act before: After the next material record update
General Retail Subdistrict at Oak Lawn (Z-26-000097)
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Get legal description of partial liquor overlay removal
Why now: The July 23, 2026 City Plan Commission item lists item (2) as "removal of a D Liquor Control Overlay on a portion" without identifying the portion, and staff's recommendation is conditioned on a development plan and unspecified recommended conditions; planner of record is Mona Hashemi.
What to do: Request from planner Mona Hashemi the full staff report, the recommended conditions, and the metes-and-bounds or lot-level description of the "portion" where the D Liquor Control Overlay is proposed for removal. The record as docketed describes the overlay removal only as applying to "a portion" of the tract — ask which parcels, whether the remaining overlay area stays intact, and whether the alcohol-related conditions are carried into the new subdistrict conditions rather than dropped.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Check if retail now allowed on multifamily-zoned Oak Lawn parcels
Why now: Staff recommended approval of a new Planned Development District Subdistrict for General Retail uses on MF-2, MF-3 and GR-zoned property within Planned Development District No. 193 "subject to a development plan and staff's recommended conditions" at the July 23, 2026 City Plan Commission item.
What to do: Pull the development plan exhibit and staff's recommended conditions for this Oak Lawn subdistrict request, which would let General Retail uses occupy land currently zoned MF-2 and MF-3 multifamily inside the Oak Lawn Special Purpose District. If the subdistrict is tied to a fixed development plan, your permitted uses, setbacks and building footprint are locked to that exhibit rather than to base General Retail standards — verify before underwriting ground-floor retail or a use change on the block bounded by Maple, Shelby, Fairmount and Reagan.
Act before: After the next material record update
Ask why two applicants share one Oak Lawn rezoning
Why now: The July 23, 2026 City Plan Commission item names Cody Armbrister / Oasis Excursion LLC and Old Parkland East 2, L.P. as applicants with Victoria Morris of Jackson Walker LLP as representative, while the liquor overlay removal is limited to an unspecified "portion" of the site.
What to do: The application lists two separate applicant entities — Oasis Excursion LLC (Cody Armbrister) and Old Parkland East 2, L.P. — on a single subdistrict and liquor-overlay request. Ask the planner and the applicants' attorney which entity owns which parcels, whether the liquor overlay removal tracks one owner's holdings and not the other's, and whether the two entities are related.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Alcohol sales limits may lift near Maple and Fairmount
Why now: The application seeks a new General Retail subdistrict on MF-2 and MF-3 multifamily-zoned land and removal of a D Liquor Control Overlay on a portion of the area bounded by Maple, Shelby, Fairmount and Reagan, heard by the City Plan Commission on July 23, 2026 in Council District 14.
What to do: If you live on or near Maple Avenue, Shelby Avenue, Fairmount Street or Reagan Street, part of this block is proposed to lose its D Liquor Control Overlay while apartment-zoned land is converted to General Retail uses — meaning new bars, restaurants or stores with alcohol sales where multifamily zoning stands today. Ask the planner for the development plan and any hours-of-operation, parking or buffering conditions before the commission acts, because those conditions are far harder to add after the subdistrict is adopted.
Act before: After the next material record update
Justin Lee Application (Z-26-000093)
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Pull staff conditions for Lake June Road alcohol permit
Why now: The July 23, 2026 staff recommendation was 'Approval, subject to site plan and staff's recommended conditions' for a general merchandise or food store 3,500 square feet or less in Planned Development District No. 366, Subarea 2, with a D-1 Liquor Control Overlay.
What to do: Obtain the staff-recommended conditions and approved site plan for this small-format store, since staff conditioned approval on both — these typically set store size limits, hours, and a permit expiration date that would govern any comparable store you plan in Subarea 2 of the Buckner Boulevard district. Without them you cannot price the buildout or know whether the permit runs with the land.
Act before: After the next material record update
Ask why applicant and assigned planner share same name
Why now: The July 23, 2026 City Plan Commission item lists 'Applicant: Justin Lee' and 'Planner: Justin Lee' on the same alcohol specific use permit application with a staff recommendation of approval.
What to do: The hearing record lists Justin Lee as both the applicant and the city planner assigned to the case, with Roberto Nunez as representative. Ask the Plan Commission staff whether this is a clerical error in the agenda entry or an actual overlap, and get the corrected case record in writing before the item advances further.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Check hours limits for new Lake June Road alcohol sales
Why now: The July 23, 2026 City Plan Commission item describes the site as on the south line of Lake June Road between Hillburn Drive and Rose Garden Avenue, with staff recommending approval subject to conditions.
What to do: A store of 3,500 square feet or less on the south side of Lake June Road between Hillburn Drive and Rose Garden Avenue is seeking permission to sell alcohol, and staff has already recommended approval. Ask the case planner for the recommended conditions to see whether they cap operating hours, require a time limit on the permit, or address parking and lighting near your block — those conditions are set now, not after the store opens.
Act before: After the next material record update
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Journalist
HighHigh significance — major decision, large financial impact, or broad community effectFour zoning cases have now been carried under advisement across multiple 2026 hearings without a final recommendation — Oak Lawn PD 193 Subdistrict 30 (#9), PD 17 at Alpha/Preston (#10), the Lemmon/Hedgerow LC subdistrict and mini-warehouse SUP (#11), and the Cleveland Road light-industrial PD (#12) — the only non-routine outcomes on an otherwise consent-heavy agenda, and a pattern worth asking staff why these specific four remain unresolved.
Resident
HighHigh significance — major decision, large financial impact, or broad community effectResidents near E. Lake Highlands Drive in District 9 should watch item #6, a proposed five-year Specific Use Permit for a private recreation center, club, or area on R-7.5(A) single-family zoned property, since it introduces a non-residential use adjacent to single-family homes. Residents along Bonnie View Road in District 4 should track items #26 and #29, which would together create roughly 156 new residential lots.
Developer
MediumMedium significance — notable action worth trackingDevelopers with entitlement requests should note that item #4, a PD 800 amendment near Cadiz Street and Riverfront Boulevard for Therme Dallas LLC adding non-residential subdistricts and a pedestrian skybridge, and item #14, a new PD 193 retail subdistrict with partial liquor-overlay removal in Oak Lawn, both carry staff recommendations for approval and illustrate the scope of mixed-use and overlay changes currently being favorably received.
Lobbyist
MediumMedium significance — notable action worth trackingThree Thoroughfare Plan amendments (#36, #37, #38) affecting Council Districts 3, 7, and 8 carry staff recommendations for approval and would reduce lane counts and right-of-way width on two segments while removing a third from the plan entirely — worth flagging to the relevant district council offices ahead of the Commission's recommendation moving to full Council.
39 items(26 procedural hidden)
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#1Zoning application to establish Subarea 2 within the Jeffries/Meyers Planned Development District No. 363, with staff recommending approval subject to revised exhibits.
#2Zoning application to amend Specific Use Permit No. 2531 for a commercial parking lot or garage use within the South Dallas Fair Park Special Purpose District, with staff recommending five-year approval subject to conditions.
#3Application to amend Specific Use Permit No. 2576 to allow a bar/lounge/tavern and indoor commercial amusement (dance hall) at 1930 Pacific Avenue in the Harwood Historic District, with staff recommending approval for a ten-year period subject to amended conditions.
#4Application to amend Planned Development District No. 800 to create/expand non-residential subdistricts and to establish a new Specific Use Permit for a pedestrian skybridge near Cadiz Street and Riverfront Boulevard, with staff recommending approval subject to site plans and conditions.
#5Application for a new Specific Use Permit to allow an open-enrollment charter school on CR Community Retail zoned property near Lake June Road, with staff recommending approval subject to a site plan, traffic management plan, and conditions.
#6Application for a new Specific Use Permit for a private recreation center, club, or area on R-7.5(A) Single Family zoned property near E. Lake Highlands Drive, with staff recommending approval for a five-year renewable term subject to a site plan and conditions.
#7Application for a new Specific Use Permit to allow alcoholic beverage sales in conjunction with a restaurant (no drive-in/drive-through) at 6465 Samuell Boulevard, zoned RR with D-1 Liquor Control Overlay; staff recommends approval subject to a site plan and conditions.
#8Application for a new Specific Use Permit for commercial motor vehicle parking at 9300 Bonnie View Road, zoned LI Light Industrial District; staff recommends approval for a ten-year period with automatic renewal eligibility, subject to a site plan and conditions.
#9Application to amend Subdistrict 30 within Planned Development No. 193 (Oak Lawn Special Purpose District) at the north corner of Reagan Street and Brown Street; staff recommends approval subject to a development plan and amended conditions.
#10Application to amend Planned Development District No. 17 at the southeast corner of Alpha Road and Preston Road; staff recommends approval subject to an amended development plan and conditions.
#11Application for a new LC Light Commercial Subdistrict and a new Specific Use Permit for a mini-warehouse on property at the south corner of Lemmon Avenue and Hedgerow Drive; staff recommends approval subject to site plan, landscape plan, and conditions.
#12Application for a new planned development district for LI Light Industrial uses on agricultural-zoned property along Cleveland Road west of Lancaster-Hutchins Road; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#13Application to amend Specific Use Permit No. 2377 to allow commercial motor vehicle parking on industrial-zoned property at 2850 Dairy Milk Lane; staff recommends approval for a three-year period subject to conditions.
#14Application for a new Planned Development District Subdistrict allowing GR General Retail uses and removal of a D Liquor Control Overlay on a portion of property within the Oak Lawn Special Purpose District (PD No. 193), bounded by Maple, Shelby, Fairmount, and Reagan streets; staff recommends approval of both requests subject to a development plan and conditions.
#15Application for a new Specific Use Permit to allow alcohol sales alongside a small general merchandise or food store on a property in the Buckner Boulevard Special Purpose District near Lake June Road; staff recommends approval subject to site plan and conditions.
#16Application for a new Specific Use Permit for a bar/lounge/tavern and live music venue at 2901 Commerce Street in the Deep Ellum/Near East Side District; staff recommends approval subject to site plan and conditions.
#17Application to revise a previously approved preliminary plat to create 13 residential lots and dedicate right-of-way from a 4.618-acre tract in the Dallas ETJ along Lake Ray Hubbard Drive; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#18Application to replat a 0.716-acre tract on Illinois Avenue, east of Duncanville Road, into a single lot; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#19Application to replat a 4.475-acre tract on Buckner Boulevard, north of Bruton Road, into one 0.975-acre lot and one 3.50-acre lot; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#20Application to replat a 7.463-acre tract on Red Bird Lane, west of Westmoreland Road, into one lot; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#21Application to replat a 16.786-acre tract between Maple Avenue and Denton Drive, north of Manor Way, into one lot; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#22Application to replat a 2.0-acre tract on Dowdy Ferry Road at Fireside Drive into one 0.310-acre lot and one 1.691-acre lot; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#23Application by Madison Partners, LLC to replat a 0.4247-acre tract on Prospect Avenue (Lots 20 and 21, City Block 24/1904) into one lot; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#24Application by 16000 Roe Holdings, LP to replat a 1.0644-acre tract on Buffalo Street (part of City Block 1095) into one lot; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#25Application by Baylor health care system and Baylor University Medical Center to replat a 12.0535-acre tract on Washington Avenue into one lot; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#26Application by Southwest Region Conference Association of Seventh Day Adventists to create 34 residential lots and 3 common areas plus right-of-way dedication from a 9.224-acre tract between Bonnie View Road and Dalview Avenue; staff recommends approval subject to conditions.
#27Application to replat a 0.665-acre tract containing Lots 11, 12, and 13A into one lot near Melba Street at Zang Boulevard, filed by Hartman Transactions, LLC, with staff recommending approval subject to conditions.
#28Application to replat a 2.950-acre tract containing parts of Lots 7 and 4 into one lot located between Ricks Circle and Hillcrest Road, filed by E Pierce Marshall, Jr. and Kristen E. Nevils-Marshall, with staff recommending approval subject to conditions.
#29Application to replat a 7.043-acre tract into 31 residential lots ranging from 3,150 to 6,002 square feet plus 3 common areas near Forest Lane and Stults Road, filed by the County of Dallas, with staff recommending approval subject to conditions.
#30Application to replat a 2.142-acre tract containing Lots 4 and 5 into two lots (35,731 and 57,581 square feet) at Canyon Drive and Watauga Road, filed by Nikhil Chaudhri and Niketa Patel, with staff recommending approval subject to conditions.
#31Application to replat a 5.851-acre tract on Bruton Road east of Masters Drive into three lots, with staff recommending approval subject to conditions.
#32Application to replat a 27.5-acre tract on Bonnie View Road south of Arrow Road into 122 residential lots and seven common areas, including right-of-way dedication, with staff recommending approval subject to conditions.
#33Application to replat a 0.245-acre lot at Davilla Drive and Lakemont Drive into one lot and reduce a platted building line, with staff recommending approval of both requests subject to conditions.
#34Application for a Certificate of Appropriateness to install a 292.8-square-foot back-lit channel letter sign on the southwest facade at 1919 Woodall Rodgers Freeway, with staff and SSDAC recommending approval.
#35Application by Victoria Morris of Jackson Walker LLP for a Certificate of Appropriateness to install a 383.3-square-foot back lit channel letter sign on the southeast elevation of 1919 Woodall Rodgers Freeway; staff and SSDAC both recommend approval.
#36Proposed amendment to the City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan reclassifying a segment of Grady Niblo Road from a six-lane divided principal arterial to a four-lane divided minor arterial roadway; staff recommends approval.
#37Proposed amendment to the City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan removing Colonial Avenue between Pennsylvania Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from the plan; staff recommends approval.
#38Proposed amendment to the City of Dallas Thoroughfare Plan reclassifying Crouch Road between Patrol Way and Lancaster Road from a two-lane undivided roadway to a four-lane undivided roadway; staff recommends approval.
CITY PLAN COMMISSION PUBLIC COMMITTEE MEETINGS Thursday, July 23, 2026 SUBDIVISION REVIEW COMMITTEE (SRC) MEETING Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 9:00 a.m., in Council Chambers, 6th Floor, at City Hall an
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