Figure 7: Select Downtowns by Area, Employment, and Population Share
• Compared to other regional downtowns, the downtown Fort Worth has a smaller population than the downtowns of Dallas, McKinney, Irving, and Plano, even though Fort Worth is the second most populous city in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
Overall, the benchmarking exercise highlighted relatively low residential presence and slower employment growth in downtown Fort Worth compared to national and regional benchmarks.
4.3 Growth Distribution in Central Area Neighborhoods In addition to the downtown benchmarking exercise which informed downtown growth for the alternative future scenario, growth allocation for other Central area neighborhoods is informed by the following:
1. Planned and proposed developments by neighborhood 2. Major Planning initiatives for respective neighborhoods 3. Citywide Future Land Use Map for Central Area
4.3.1 Planned and proposed developments by neighborhood Planned development activity in Central Area Neighborhoods were summarized to compare with NCTCOG regional allocations. Key neighborhoods such as West 7 th and Southside (among other neighborhoods) in addition to downtown Fort Worth have significant planned and proposed development that were first compared to the NCTCOG 2050 allocation. If found to be relatively lower than the footprint of respective planned development activity in these neighborhoods, the higher levels of planned development were used to inform the alternative AOS scenario.
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