Compliance

Code Compliance

The City of Dallas is divided into seven (7) Community Code districts with offices located throughout the City. The districts are responsible for the enforcement of over 900 City ordinances intended to keep your neighborhood clean and code-compliant. Community Code addresses concerns both proactively and by citizen requests submitted through 3-1-1. If you need assistance identifying your Code district, please call 3-1-1 or any district office. Joey Zapata is serving as the code department's director.

Community Code Districts

Northeast Code Community 8940 Adlora Lane Dallas, TX 75238 (214) 670-9703 North Central Code Community 8940 Adlora Lane Dallas, TX 75238 (214) 670-1195 Northwest Code Community 2502 Shorecrest Drive Dallas, TX 75235 (214) 670-9713 Central Code Community 320 E. Jefferson Boulevard Dallas, TX 75203 (214) 948-4088 Southeast Code Community 2719 Municipal Street Dallas, TX 75215 (214) 670-7697 South Central Code Community 2721 Municipal Street Dallas, TX 75215 (214) 671-0591 Southwest Code Community 4230 W. Illinois Avenue Dallas, TX 75211 (214) 670-6860

Community Code Districts Map (PDF)

Code Compliance Department enforces City Codes to prevent and abate nuisances on private property such as open and dangerous buildings, illegal dumping, weeded lots, and graffiti. Help your HOA members become familiar with these code requirements:

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Litter:

The homeowner or tenant is responsible for maintaining the area between the curb in front of the house to the middle of the alley free of litter and high weeds.

Weeds:

Weeds or grass over 12 inches high is a violation. 

Obstructions:

The occupant or owner is responsible for keeping street, alley, sidewalk, and public grounds clear of obstruction. This includes trimming of trees, shrubbery an vines which may obstruct any vehicle traveling through an alley or that obstructs a sidewalk.

Garage Sales:

The City permits 2 garage sales each year per property. The sales may last no longer than 3 days and a person cannot sell merchandise acquired solely for resale purposes in the garage sale. A sign advertising the sale can only be placed on the property where the sale is occurring. 

Dallas now has an interactive  web site specifically for Garage Sales. To add a sale to the web site you must be a resident of Dallas. You may hold two sales per 12 month period. Attempts to hold more then two sales per year will result in citation. Garage Sales must be inside a building or garage of the premises. Sale Items must be the property owner or lesee.

For more information, register a Garage Sale or view current Garage Sale listings, click here.

Zoning:

If you have a home occupation in a residentially zoned area, you may not employ more than two persons other than the occupants of the residence; you may not advertise nor use a sign advertisement on or off the premises.

Signs:

It is a violation of the City Code to post any signs on a utility pole, tree or in the City right of way or medians. A violation is punishable by a fine of up to $2,000 per day per violation. 

New sign ordinance: "The many signs illegally posted on telephone poles and in the public right of way in our city keep us from having the clean city we want. I began talking to the City Attorney earlier this year to figure out a way to put more teeth in the existing ordinance. It took some creative thinking and work, but finally on Nov. 8, 2006 we finally passed the amendments to put the teeth in the ordinance so that we can make this a cleaner city. The new law makes it prima facia evidence that the person posting the sign is the one connected with the phone number and/or name on the sign. This will make it much simpler to prosecute those that posted the signs when code enforcement issues citations for this type of sign. This new tool will help us make Dallas a cleaner and nicer looking city. So if you see a sign illegally posted, please call 311 and report it."

Ron Natinsky, Dallas City Councilman, District 12

Parking:

Motor vehicles must be parked on an approved surface---this means concrete, asphalt or 6 inches of gravel with a border. It is a violation to park a vehicle on the lawn.

Also, a person commits an offense if he stops, stands, or parks a vehicle upon a two-way roadway:

1. on the left-hand side of the roadway; or  (i.e. Parked on the wrong side of the street.        
2. with the right-hand wheels of the vehicle more than 18 inches from the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway.

Click Here for the Ordinance (pdf)

How to Report a Violation in your Neighborhood

Report Code Violations to Inspector Rodney Patterson at 972-333-2725 for the North District, or, input the violations on line at the City of Dallas Services Web Site.

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