After Shingle Mountain, the Community Is Still Cleaning Up the City's Mess

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After Shingle Mountain, the Community Is Still Cleaning Up the City's Mess
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Residents of a southeast Dallas neighborhood lived with a 100-foot mountain of shingles that they were trying to get rid of for years. They're still sort of cleaning up the city's mess.

Residents of a southeast Dallas neighborhood lived with a 100-foot mountain of shingles that they tried to get rid of for years.Two years after the removal of Shingle Mountain, a mound of 70,000 tons of asphalt shingles illegally dumped in in the Floral Farms neighborhood of southeast Dallas, residents there continue to meet with city officials to hash out a new zoning plan for the area and its mix of homes and industry.

The city of Dallas has since put forth a zoning review for the area, which was initiated in 2019. The first community meeting took place in September 2022 to discuss existing land use and zoning, illuminate aspects of the city’s process and collaborate with the community. The conversation continued, but the second meeting in January attracted criticism for lack of Spanish translations.

“We have thoroughly read the neighborhood-led plan, and we are taking that into consideration," said Andrea Gilles, assistant director of Planning and Urban Design for the city."But there is an adopted city plan for that area — the Trinity River Corridor Plan has an adopted land use component for this area. … That is adopted policy, so we need to take that into consideration as well.

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