Editorial: Planning the Future of Downtown Dallas
http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/ed...own-dallas.ece
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Planning is the easy part. Doing is the hardest. Dallas, all cities, needs to minimize regulations that restrict growth. It's one thing to make regulations encouraging growth, it's another to make regulations that stop or hinder growth.
Dallas has too many of the latter, and not enough of the former, then wonder why the type of growth they want isn't happening. |
^Agreed. Dallas though at least has some form of regulations in the first place. Houston just lets you build wherever and however you want. Our tunnel system is far more extensive than Dallas, and as expected, our street-level retail is in far worse shape than Dallas. The direct correlation is there... you can't bury your businesses and expect to have pedestrian activity in downtown. I salute Dallasites for at least being more progressive about a phase out, and I hope Houston would do the same.
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Dallas has some very good retail corridors, but a lot of the areas are still incohesive. Elm street has so much potential... the retail spaces are already there. You just have to drive out all the check cashers and other assorted shadiness. Main Street Garden is a jewel of a park, but it's in a dead zone for downtown. Hopefully more developments are happening to tie this half of DT to the rail corridor.
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