Project Overview
As an identified strategic area planning program within the forwardDallas! Comprehensive Plan, the UNT-Dallas Campus Area Plan will recommend a specific vision and priorities for land use development around the new University of North Texas campus vicinity in Southern Dallas. The UNT-Dallas Campus area is identified as a priority 2006-2008 Action Plan project within the forwardDallas! Comprehensive Plan.
Encompassing 264 acres, the new UNT-Dallas Campus currently employs 18 full-time faculty members and has a total enrollment of 1,598 students, which include 640 full-time equivalent students.
The UNT-Dallas Campus area was the focus of a November, 2004 forwardDallas! community workshop at the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church. The November, 2004 community workshop participants addressed projected growth in the area, which were incorporated into a draft concept plan for the UNT Campus area.
A key component of the study is an analysis of context sensitive design for the neighboring areas around the UNT-Dallas campus which promotes a more pedestrian-friendly environment. Given the anticipated near term student enrollment goal of 16,000 students, with a 25,000 to 26,000 enrollment goal at full build-out (2020), pedestrian-oriented urban design recommendations will be an essential consideration during this community area planning process.
The forwardDallas! Comprehensive Plan calls for a strategic area planning program to provide a proactive, systematic and action-oriented mechanism for advancing desirable development in key areas of the city. The UNT-Dallas Campus area is one among the three top priority areas on the work program of the Department of Development Services that have been short-listed for area plans.
Area Planning Focus
- Provide broad-based opportunities for interactive public involvement in shaping the future of the area.
- Develop a vision for future development in the area as a refinement of the forwardDallas! Vision.
- Translate the future vision into clearly defined actions for implementation with an emphasis on zoning, transportation, infrastructure and economic development
- Carry forward and coordinate implementation to achieve the future vision.
Anticipated Process and Schedule [PDF]
Advisory Committee [PDF]
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