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6/21/7  Front Yard Parking
 
  This issue came up in my neighborhood.  I hope the following information is helpful.  Now, getting the Code Inspectors to enforce it is another matter all together.  You may have a legal out for getting rid of parking in front yards.
 
Darryl Baker
If these people do not have a rear entry garage that is being used as a GARAGE (storage, family room conversion, etc. does not help them), then their front yard parking is illegal.  Only ADDITIONAL parking can be located in the front yard, not required off-street parking. 
 
Here it is, chapter and verse:

You have to make a distinction between
 
(1) required parking and
 
(2) additional parking. 
 
A single family use requires one parking space in R-7.5(A) zoning (in R-10, it may be 2 spaces).
 
The Dallas Development Code Section 51A-4.209(b)(6)(C) states that:
 
The required parking space for a single-family use must be behind the required front building line (not in the front yard). 
 
The Dallas Development Code Section 51A-4.301(b)(2). 
 
Additional parking for a single-family use can be located in the front yard.  Any parking, required or additional, for a nonresidential use (church, school) cannot be in the front yard. 
 
The Dallas Development Code Section 51A-4.301(b)(1). 
 
All parking, required or additional, single-family use or nonresidential use, must be on an approved surface (concrete or asphalt or similar). 
 
The Dallas Development Code Section 51A-4.301(d)(3) and (4) states that: 
 
a conservation district ordinance can vary any of the normal rules. 

                                        

    





                            

 

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