The City of Dallas is in desperate need of affordable housing, and transit oriented development offers a great opportunity to address that need within our City.  The land around our DART stations is sparse and precious, and we has a community need to ensure that the land is utilized as a true public benefit.  By incorporating affordable housing into transit oriented developments around the stations, we not only address the need for affordable housing but also, increase economic and job development, create housing and transportation cost savings for residents, increase ridership for the transit agency, create better integrated neighborhoods, and reduce the environmental impact of auto travel by reducing vehicle miles travelled.  

The report has laid out those benefits, provided an analysis to determine the stations most suitability for this type of development, and analyzed each one of the most suitable stations to determine a timeframe and potential possibilities.  More work is needed and much of it is in alternating policies, including DART’s, to ensure that the precious land around DART stations is utilized as a true public benefit.