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The Office of Historic Preservation provides services related to historic districts, historic structures, and potential historic districts and structures. These services include Landmark (historic) Designation, Certificates of Appropriateness (approval forms for work on landmark structures), and administering tax incentive programs within Historic Districts and on individual Historic Structures.
1970s. Only a year after its founding, the HPL succeeded in urging the City Council to adopt the Dallas Preservation Ordinance. A year later, in 1974, the HPL published Buying a Home in Historic Old East Dallas, part of a major marketing program to interest potential residents in purchasing and preserving homes in inner-city neighborhoods.
50 years ago Dallas passed its first historic preservation ordinances. The current . moment calls for a continuation to move that important work forward, incorporating . learnings to create a more equitable Dallas.Over the last year, a committee composed . of both community historians and preservation professionals deliberated on what
Feb 29, 2024 · Dallas City Council in 2010 adopted an ordinance that allowed the court-ordered demolition of homes less than 3,000 square feet in historic districts to “address substandard structures that were ...
Jun 24, 2024 · This spring the Dallas City Council voted unanimously to approve the city’s new Historic and Cultural Preservation Strategy by the Planning and Development department. The strategy, commissioned in November 2022, attempts to integrate the city’s Racial Equity Plan , Housing Policy 2033 and Economic Development and Incentive Policy into the process of recognizing individual properties and ...
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Oct 24, 2024 · Preservation in Dallas started about 50 years ago with the first ordinance created to protect the West End area — and predominantly the Texas School Book Depository Building. Yfat Yossifor KERA
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Apr 11, 2024 · The plan’s approval comes after the city council also decided to repeal a demolition ordinance that led to the destruction of 35 historic homes in the Tenth Street Historic District.