Beginning in 2000, the Carrollton City Council began a planning process to capitalize on significant financial benefits of the rail stations through transit-oriented development (TOD).  As demonstrated at Mockingbird Station in Dallas, Texas; Galatyn Park in Richardson, Texas and numerous other cities throughout the country, commuter rail stations can trigger new development and redevelopment on a massive scale.  This planning process is on-going.

Most recently, on February 5, 2008, the Carrollton City Council accepted a revised comprehensive plan for the downtown Carrollton area, centered around the Downtown Carrollton DART station..

Below are these reports, as well as other information.

Except for the AutoCAD maps, all reports are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.  Some are quite large.  For best results, "right-click" and save the target file to your own hard drive, then open from there.