The city of Dallas is preparing to unveil a comprehensive plan to reform its zoning rules in an effort to expand housing options and increase multi-family and mixed-use developments across the city.

Dallas zoning overhaul What we know: City planners working on zoning changes for Dallas said that while the Dallas-Fort Worth area is the fastest-growing region in the country and is set to soon surpass Chicago in population, the city of Dallas is not capturing that growth.

One goal of the Dallas zoning reform is to help change that by expanding where multi-unit housing and mixed-use developments are allowed.