Zoning changes filed for Dallas Carnival site

by Avi Adelman of Barking Dogs

LOWER GREENVILLE — Andres Real Estate has filed a zoning request for the old Carnival location on Henderson Avenue. The proposal is for a mixed-development with 250 residential units and nearly 30,000 sf of retail / restaurant space (click here for the Conceptual Site Plan). There is no formal name for the proposed development.

The site has sat empty and undeveloped for more than a year while Andres Real Estate put together a package that would appease the Lower Greenville NA and its chief lackey, the faux-Lower Greenville West NA (aka Four White Guys and a Few Gals). They are opposing any changes in the land use or residential components.

According to the filing,

The request would create a new SubDistrict 5A within the exiting Henderson Special Purpose Development District which would allow the same uses as currently allowed, but would modify the development standards for the property.

The site currently can be developed with a retail/residential use with a maximum FAR of .75:1, along with a residential use with a maximum density of 30 units per acre. The Subdistrict allows a maximum height of 54 feet

The proposed change would increase the maximum residential density to 85 units per acre along with the FAR to 2:1.

The increases would be tied to a minimum of residential uses in order to encourage residential or mixed use development.

The setbacks would be reduced in order to make the development more urban in nature. The overall allowed height would not be increased.

After numerous frustrating encounters with LGWNA, Andres Real Estate was all set to sell the property months ago. This zoning change filing indicates - BD's opinion - they believe the City Plan Commission and City Council will put more value on a positive development near Lower Greenville (after the CityVille zoning disaster) than the opposition of just five residents under Mad Maxine's control.

BD can already hear the narrow-minded fools in LGNA and LGWNA cranking up their tired old arguments and dull knives to stick in our back again, even as we write these words.

He will probably be kicked out of their neighborhood - again - for daring to go against them on this issue too.

LGWNA does not speak for the majority of their neighbors, many of whom have never been invited to a neighborhood association meeting or just happen to have the wrong color skin tones. BD has stopped counting the number of people who live on Rowena or Richmond who have never heard of LGWNA.

Having an independently operating and thinking brain is also a big no-no to these fools.

BD will post more information about this project over the next few weeks.

The City Plan Commission hearing is set for January 17, 2008. You can download the Early Notification form and send in your comments by fax or regular mail.

* Click here to see the Zoning Change Application and Land Use Statement

* Click here to see the Conceptual Site Plan (5,000 foot view).

* Click here for the Early Notification / Comments Form (includes instructions for faxing or mailing your comments)

* Click here to read Jim Schutze's Dallas Observer column about redevelopment along Henderson Avenue - Inner City Grows Despite City Hall

BarkingDogs.org covers the Lower Greenville Avenue area.

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John Botefuhr, says:

By reading the headline, I was really hoping we were getting an actual carnival on Lower Greenville. How truly wonderful it would be to have all sorts of Carnies like the Bearded Woman, the Snake Boy, the Worlds Fattest Man, and Pickles the Clown to wander our fare neighorhood....just wandering....imbibing.... and pissing in our yards. Wouldn't that be wonderful Avi?

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Lindsay Graham, says:

I quit reading this halfway through, even though I knew it was Avi, because it was not journalism. I was interested in the topic and was hoping to be informed, but read only diatribe. Too bad.