Pre-Development Meetings

• The Pre-Development plan review service is tailored to projects that are in the initial planning and design phase. This service offers opportunities for the applicant to assemble their development team and partner with City staff to review their preliminary development projects in a meeting setting. The meeting is an advisory meeting where collaborative discussions occur between City staff and the applicant, developer, design team and other consultants involved to identify, examine, and address project-related questions and concerns at the initial stages of planning and design. The meeting is not for permit review and no permit will be issued at its conclusion.

  The following subject matter experts will be present at the meeting:

  • Addressing
  • Subdivision
  • Zoning
  • Landscaping
  • Paving and Drainage Engineering
  • Traffic and Transportation Engineering
  • Water and Wastewater Engineering
  • Fire Department
  • Building Code
  • Other trades, teams, and departments as needed (School, Conservation, Historic, Economic Development, Housing & Revitalization, etc.)
    

 Customers seeking to utilize this service are required to create a DallasNow account and apply online. DallasNow link: Accela Citizen Access 

After logging into their account, customers can apply by following these steps:

• Click Building
• Click Create an Application
• Agree to the disclaimer
• Click Continue Application
• Click Building Requests
• Click Pre-Development Meeting
• Click Continue Application
• Enter all required information on each page and click Continue Application until it is complete

Once the project has been successfully prescreened and both fees have been paid, a member of the Q-Team will send an email to the applicant with the soonest available meeting timeslot, requesting the applicant to confirm this timeslot. Once confirmation is received, the meeting will be officially scheduled. Meetings will be scheduled at least five (5) days in advance.

Pre-Development meetings are scheduled for one-hour time slots on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 9:00 AM or 1:30 PM.

Upon submittal, customers must pay a $15.00 technology fee. After the project has been prescreened, customers must pay a $1,316.00 Pre-Development fee.

•  All commercial occupancy classifications 
• New commercial site/full development construction projects (ground up)
• Commercial exterior building renovations/modifications
• Commercial interior finish outs, renovations, or expansions within existing building footprint