Overview

​Scope and Content

Collection contains the City Plan Commission (CPC) membership list; it is a typewritten document of loose pages from a small, three-ring notebook.

Established by the Dallas City Charter, the CPC is responsible both for making recommendations to the City Council regarding planning and zoning matters and for administering Chapter 212 of the Texas Local Government Code regarding the platting and recording of subdivisions and additions. It is through this planning for and regulation of land development that the City Plan Commission achieves its land-use planning objectives.

The CPC of the City of Dallas was created in April 1919 by charter amendment election “to act as an advisory board to the city council or other governing body relating to all nature of public improvements, civic improvements, city planning, opening, widening and changing of streets, routing of public utilities, controlling and regulating traffic upon the public streets and ways of the City of Dallas, and other matters relating to the city improvements as the City Plan Commission and the governing body of the City of Dallas may deem beneficial to the City of Dallas.”   Its responsibilities have expanded to include commercial and residential zoning and planning for historic preservation.

Each Dallas City Council member appoints a citizen to the CPC.  City Council members also name one of the CPC members to be the chair and one to be the vice-chair.  The CPC itself does not name its officers.

Organization

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Access

Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from the Dallas Municipal Archives. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards.

Citation

City Plan Commission Membership List, 1919-1989 (Box <x>, Folder <y>), Dallas Municipal Archives

Related ​Materials

Collection 1991-130—Dallas Boards and Commissions History, 1971-1991
Collection 1999-004—City Plan Commission Minute Books, 1919-1983

Index Terms

City planning -- Texas -- Dallas
Dallas -- Texas -- History
Dallas (Tex.). City Plan Commission

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