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Meeting Name: Economic Development Committee Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 4/7/2025 1:00 PM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL bit.ly/cityofdallastv
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda  
Attachments: 0. ECO Committee Agenda Packet 4.7.2025 stamped.pdf
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25-1135A 11 MINUTESApproval of March 3, 2025 Economic Development Committee Meeting Minutes.   Not available
25-1137A 1A. BRIEFING ITEMSUpdate the committee on DallasNow, a land management system software that is used for managing land use and permitting [Jason Pool, Assistant Director, Planning & Development Department].   Not available
25-1139A 1B. BRIEFING ITEMSOff-Street Parking & Loading Development Code Amendment [Emily Liu, Director, Planning & Development Department]   Not available
25-1140A 1C. BRIEFING ITEMSProposed Amendments to Chapter 52, to simplify permitting fees [Emily Liu Director, M. Samuell Eskander, Deputy Director/Building Official, Vernon Young, Deputy Director, Catherine Lee, Assistant Director, Planning and Development]   Not available
25-1144A 1D. BRIEFING MEMOSUpcoming Agenda Items: Authorize (A) proposed amendment of the Downtown Connection TIF District (“TIF District”) Project Plan and Reinvestment Zone Financing Plan (“Plan”) to: (1) add a provision for a directed sale of an approximately 1.09 acre property addressed as 660 N. Griffin Street (and the current location of City of Dallas Fire Station No. 18) in the Downtown Connection Sub-district of the Downtown Connection TIF District; and (2) reprogram $6,980,602 in 2006 NPV dollars (approximately $17,561,516 in total dollars) from the Redevelopment of Vacant/Underutilized Downtown Buildings, Underdeveloped Parcels, Surface Parking Lots line item to the Public Safety Building (replace Fire Station No. 18) line item in the Downtown Connection Sub-district’s budget to support the relocation and development of a new Fire Station No. 18, and (B) proposed development agreement with Tango North RF, LLC, a Texas limited liability company and/or its affiliates or assigns (collectively, the “Developer”) in an amount not to exceed $29,399,487 (“TIF Subsidy”), payable from existing and future TIF    Not available
25-1141A 1E. BRIEFING MEMOSUpcoming Agenda Items (Public Improvement Districts): Call for Public Hearing to be held on May 28, 2025 to (1) renew the Deep Ellum Public Improvement District, (2) renew the Klyde Warren Park/Dallas Arts District Public Improvement District, (3) create the Far East Dallas Public Improvement District, and (4) create the RedBird Public Improvement District; and in tandem, (5) resolutions authorizing a waiver to the minimum public improvement district (PID) petition approval thresholds outlined in the City’s PID Policy, subject to approval by three-quarters of the City Council, for purposes of deeming petitions requesting the creation of the Far East Dallas Public Improvement District and RedBird Public Improvement District as sufficient. [Maria Smith, Assistant Director, Office of Economic Development]   Not available
25-1142A 1F. BRIEFING MEMOSProposed Amendments to City Code Section 51A-8.601(b) [Emily Liu, Director, Planning and Development Department]   Not available
25-1143A 1G. BRIEFING MEMOSProposed amendments to the Dallas One- and Two-Family Dwelling Code to allow construction of up to eight dwelling units under the code [Emily Liu, Director, Planning and Development Department]   Not available
25-1145A 1H. BRIEFING MEMOSDeliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect (“Project Beckett”) that the City seeks to locate within the City and with which the City is conducting economic development negotiations and/or seek advice of its attorney related to Project Beckett (Sec. 551.087 T.O.M.A and Sec. 551.071 T.O.M.A) [Heather Lepeska, Assistant Director, Office of Economic Development]   Not available