​On Thursday, April 25, 2024 a Community Meeting was held to kickoff four (4) city-initiated rezonings in West Oak Cliff. This is the next step in implementing the recommendations of the West Oak Cliff Area Plan (WOCAP), adopted by Dallas City Council in October 2022.  Attend the meetings to learn and discuss Authorized Hearing process.

• Z189-127 North Cliff Neighborhood Center(Catherine /Pierce Trolley Stop)
• Z189-143 Edgefield/Clarendon Trolley Stop
• Z189-240 Jimtown Neighborhood (Clarendon/Hampton MF-2)
• Z189-349 Hampton/Clarendon Trolley Stop

Location:

West Oak Cliff, roughly 5.01 square miles in size, lies entirely within Council District 1, and is bounded generally to the south by Illinois Avenue, to the west by Cockrell Hill Road, to the north by Davis Street, and to the east by Hampton Road, 12th Street and Tyler Street. The West Oak Cliff Study Area encompasses a diverse array of established and historic neighborhoods including Elmwood, Polk-Vernon, Hampton Hills, East Hampton Hills, South Edgefield, North Cliff, The Dells, Beverly Hills, Sunset Hill, and Jimtown.  It also includes two DART light rail stations: Hampton and Tyler/Vernon, and the Westmoreland Station is just outside of the area’s southern boundary.

Vision:

The West Oak Cliff planning area is envisioned as an equitable, enriching, and welcoming neighborhood that celebrates its peoples, its history, and its culture, and prioritizes the safety, health, and economic resilience of its residents. Residents and stakeholders in West Oak Cliff envision a neighborhood with a high quality of life that ensures housing and retail affordability for its residents, preserves its unique single-family neighborhoods, protects and enhances existing natural amenities and assets, creates new opportunities for parks, recreation, and natural amenities, provides a safe environment
for pedestrians and cyclists, celebrates its historic buildings and culture, and provides walkable destinations for its residents. West Oak Cliff is a sustainable neighborhood that supports local, minority, women, and immigrant-owned local businesses, promotes local artists and public art, provides human-scale and human-focused development, and has access to critical community resources.

Summary:

The West Oak Cliff Area Plan is a City Council-adopted guiding planning document for numerous neighborhoods in the central and western side of Oak Cliff in Southern Dallas. The area is predominantly Hispanic/Latina(o)/LatinX and trends younger than the other parts of the city. This plan provides a long-range vision for land use, urban design, transportation, mobility, infrastructure, open space, and community concerns around gentrification, displacement, and revitalization. Due to the three DART light rail stations in and around the area, as well as the ongoing and continued growth in the Bishop Arts District to the northeast, there are concerns about potential future growth pressures and subsequent fears of gentrification and displacement. The West Oak Cliff Area Plan lays out a roadmap to help ensure that existing residents will be able to remain in the neighborhood, while also working to improve quality of life and provide opportunities for future growth in designated locations. The West Oak Cliff Area Plan hopes to create a neighborhood that is enriching, equitable, welcoming, safe, healthy, and economically resilient for all of its residents and workers.

Additional Information:

The City Council public hearing and adoption of this plan was on October 26, 2022. The completed plan links are as follows:

WOCAP English Plan - Spanish Plan 

West Oak Cliff Area Plan Taskforce

Taskforce Meetings

City Contacts