The James on Wheatland is a proposed apartment community to be built at 7100 W. Wheatland Road. If built, it will be a three-story apartment community. It will back up to neighbors on Sugarberry Place and Elderberry and will bring a lot of traffic.

The community has voiced its opinion to the developers that we do not want this development in this location. We spoke loud and clear. Our councilman, Zarin Gracey was at the community meeting and has failed to support community members thus far, voting in favor of many of these apartment communities to be built in the surrounding area. The latest one being a 5-story apartment complex at 6000 West Camp Wisdom Road.

The Woods-Sugarberry Neighborhood is a master-planned community with beautiful landscaping and plans for single-family homes mixed with retail.

Here is a link to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs and their interactive Low Income Housing Tax Credit Map.

The closest 9% LIHTC projects are ALL outside of Dallas. There are some 9% sites in Dallas and SOUTH of I-30 and the Trinity River! The closest one to this request site is The Center Ridge Apartments at 7905 Marvin D Love Freeway, 75237 (District 8, near 67 and Wheatland) with 100% rent subsidized (192 units) 

There are NO 9% units in District 3.

For your Quick Reference, here are the D3 Zip Codes —

75224, 75232, 75233, 75236, 75237, and 75249 

Mr. Gracey lied to us when he said that NO DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE ON THIS REQUEST. On February 12, 2025, City Council unanimously approved Resolution No. 18-0704 in support of this application to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the State agency which receives and administers the Tax Credit funds from the IRS.This is a PRIME EXAMPLE of “Planning for us, WITHOUT US” and this HAS TO STOP!

Another MAJOR POINT we need to make is that the Mountain Creek area is made up of master planned communities and OUR PLANS need to be respected. 

• Warehouses need to locate in the Dallas County Inland Port — NOT in and near our neighborhoods. 
• We are BEYOND SATURATED with multifamily developments! Any new multifamily uses here need to locate in areas that are ALREADY ZONED for this use.

If the applicant decides to proceed with this rezoning request, we must demand that the City Plan Commission deny this application, with prejudice.

I think that the Sugarberry Neighborhood did an OUTSTANDING JOB of making the point that this is a BAD PROJECT in the WRONG LOCATION. The developer FAILED TO SHOW the graphic of the Residential Proximity Slope (RPS) in a street-to-street illustration of the property and its vertical impact on the neighborhood.

~Information provided by Daryl Baker