Forward Dallas doesn't solve housing equity and affordability for the city.
Dallas City Council member Jesse Moreno addresses a town hall meeting on the Forward Dallas land-use plan at the Samuell Grand Recreation Center on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in Dallas.There is something brilliant in the way the Forward Dallas land-use initiative has been positioned. I can’t even challenge it without being accused of being a racist and a snob.
City staff and some citizen supporters of this idea have sought to allay fears and opposition by insisting that Forward Dallas is not a zoning document, that it is only a suggestion with no weight or bearing on existing zoning. State law is a bit gray on the question.I think those assurances are disingenuous and probably irrelevant anyway to the reality of how zoning works in the real world. Zoning law, like all law after all, is an expression of underlying morality and intent.
We do see our own neighborhoods becoming less diverse, to such an extent that by now in some cases I think we may be the diversity. We don’t love that. We don’t want the inner city to be all rich, and we certainly don’t want it to be all white. If we believed the true aim of Forward Dallas was to resolve those problems, I think most of us would be supporters.
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