An Outline of the Dallas Master Plan Page: 43 of 196

                                
THE ZONING ORDINANCE
At least fifty (S0) per cent of the effectiveness of the Dallas Master Plan
will be dependent upon the planned control of land use. This can only be done by
good zoning regulations consistently administered.
Dallas has had zoning regulations since 1929. The city has secured many
benefits from this ordinance bt it is now outmoded and needs to be rewritten
and brought up to date to take advantage of the advances that have been made in
zoning procedure.
The following are some of the shortcoind of the present zoning ordinance.
Its greatest drawback is that it is out of scale with existing uses. The
dwelling districts, in which duplexes are permitted were found to contain almost
17,000 acres. Yet only 2,1k3 acres are used for duplexes and 9,300 acres for
single-family houses. -d                   separation of the single-family homes
from the duplexesto protect the single-family homes.
The apartment districts contain 2,700 acres which is, more than three times
the area actually used for apartments.
Also the commercial districts contain 3,184 acres which is sufficient for
1,7S0,000 people.
The first manufacturing districts contain sufficient area, of 1,500,000
persons while the second manufacturing districts contain barely enough area for
the present city.
Again the zoning districts have not been related to the division of the city
into neighborhoods.
An analysis was made of five neighborhoods with the following results which
again show the lack of protection afforded residential areas. In the Washington
neighborhood, eighty-five (85) per cent of the land is zoned for commercial purposes
while only tIrten (13) pr  cent is actually used. /  i ty-seven ( 7) per cent of