{"id":456285,"date":"2026-10-04T16:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456285\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:36:20","slug":"northway-zoning-change-hearing-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456285\/","title":{"rendered":"Northway Zoning Change Hearing Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dallas City Plan Commission hearing on a zoning change request that, if approved, would allow <\/a>Northway Christian Church to host the Compass School of Texas has been postponed.<\/p>\n

The hearing was originally scheduled for Oct. 8, but District 13 Dallas City Plan Commission member Larry Hall said a request was made by a neighbor to postpone the date. The case is now set for a hearing on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n

Currently, city code allows one postponement request for City Plan Commission hearings and one for Dallas City Council meetings, so while the City Plan Commission hearing can\u2019t be postponed again, a subsequent Dallas City Council hearing could be.<\/p>\n

The case has been a hot-button issue in the community since Northway Christian board chair Paul Schmidt announced earlier this year that the church at 7202 W. Northwest Highway, next to Boone Elementary, is planning to shutter its Day School, which serves children from 6 months to 5 years old, in May of 2027 and host The Compass School of Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schmidt wrote in a letter that hosting The Compass School of Texas \u201cwill expand mission reach and provide sustainable revenue\u201d for Northway, while supporting Compass\u2019 \u201cgrowth as a Pre-K-through 8th-grade school that preserves the community\u2019s warmth and connection to nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Compass School, which serves students in Pre-K to fourth grade, opened in 2023 and is slated to expand to serve students through eighth grade.<\/p>\n

Nearby residents and Highland Park ISD leadership have raised concerns about the about the potential traffic impact of Compass\u2019 close proximity to Boone and future uses of the church space. Neighbors and the district had called<\/a> for further staggered arrival and dismissal times for Boone Elementary and Compass, among other changes to the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe neighborhood is not asking the City of Dallas to deny education to children. We are asking that any permit approved include binding conditions calibrated to the unique configuration of two independently administered schools sharing the same residentially zoned city block,\u201d Meagan Ranallo, a Boone Elementary parent, wrote in a June 5 communication to community members.<\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s Note: A previous version of this article, citing information from the school\u2019s website, stated that Compass serves students from Pre-K to fourth grade. Compass serves students from Pre-K to fifth grade and is opening sixth grade next year.)<\/p>\n

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\n Rachel Snyder, managing editor at People Newspapers, first joined the staff in 2019. She’s covered everything from Dallas and University Park municipal government to business. Rachel began her journalism career at the daily newspaper The Express Star in Chickasha, Okla. She went on to work for the daily Duncan Banner in Duncan, Okla. the weekly Sand Springs Leader, and WFAA-TV in Dallas. She\u2019s a fan of puns and community journalism, not necessarily in that order.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas City Plan Commission hearing on a zoning change request that, if approved, would allow Northway Christian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-456285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}