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**SAY NO TO 3-STORY PATIO HOMES
**SAY NO TO 42 PATIO HOMES
**SAY NO TO ZONING AS DENSE AS THE DENSEST TOWNHOUSE ZONING TH-3
**SAY NO TO 3-STORY PATIO HOMES
**SAY NO TO 42 PATIO HOMES
**SAY NO TO ZONING AS DENSE AS THE DENSEST TOWNHOUSE ZONING TH-3
Developer's only change from what we defeated in November is reducing the number of patio homes by 8 to 42, but still insisting that 31 still be 3-story/36 feet. Despite Tricia Pittman from the Wimberley Court Homeowners Association (WCHA) and Dave Rogers from the Walnut Hill Homeowners Association (WHHA) meeting with him several times, he has continued to resist the very reasonable compromise of lowering the maximum height of all homes to 2-story/30 feet. That is the current maximum single family height limit for all the homes in our Walnut Hill neighborhood and all those that surround us.
The developer wants to rezone this property that is currently zoned Residential R-16 (16,000 sf lots) to CRAM in 42 "patio homes", with 31 of them 3-story/36 feet tall on lots as small as 1,650 sf, one tenth the size of the typical Walnut Hill neighborhood lot
There is NO single-family zoning that allows 3-story/36 feet high homes in our Walnut Hill neighborhood, or in any surrounding neighborhoods. And there is NO single-family zoning with lots as small as 1,650 sf in all of North Dallas. In other words, where only one home is allowed now, the developer wants to build 10 homes!
The rezoning request does NOT honor the language found in the Forward Dallas Plan:
"Changes to areas within Community Residential neighborhoods must prioritize community engagement. The community engagement should be initiated early in the process that is bringing the change and should be given significant weight in the decision making that occurs with this process"
"Changes to areas within Community Residential neighborhoods should look to add housing in a way that is gentle, equitable, incremental, and sensitive to the existing context, while doing so in a manner that strengthens these neighborhoods and incorporates inclusive community engagement efforts..."
This rezoning request is neither "gentle", "incremental", nor does it honor "inclusive community engagement"
If this rezoning is passed, it will become the template that developers will demand for any church property, large lot, or combination of lots in our neighborhood along Midway, Marsh, Royal, Walnut Hill, and Merrell and in all our surrounding neighborhoods
Only the northern 11 patio homes are limited to 2-story/30 feet which is the maximum height limit for all single family homes in our Walnut Hill neighborhood and all that surround us. The other 31 are 3-story/36 feet. Because this street is too narrow, there will be no street parking allowed. These homes are also just a few feet from the street, so there is no real front yard, and the driveway from the street is only a few feet long which leaves no room to park in front of the garage door. All visitors can then only park in the separate 19 spaces away from these homes.
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