A pair of hearings pertaining to sites of neighborhood interest come up on municipal dockets in the next few weeks.

First up, at 1 p.m. Sept. 8, the Dallas Landmark Commission will conduct a public hearing to consider initiation of the historic designation process for 10 Nonesuch Road — that address would be the site of the home once owned by Stanley Marcus.

The City Council could designate the house a historic structure, saving it from threats of demolition like the one that brought a great hue and cry in recent months. If granted, the historic designation would be the fourth such structure to fall under that type of protection — the others being Crozier Tech High School; St. Ann's School; and the Knights of Pythias Temple.

Of more contemporary concern, City Council pushed back the public hearing on the 99-year specific use permit granted in 1995 to what was then Cowboys and now Far West dance hall. The 99-year term is one of two in the city, the other granted during the 1960s to a place near Mockingbird Lane and Harry Hines Boulevard.

A group of neighborhood associations — Lakewood, Gastonwood-Coronado Hills, and Hollywood-Santa Monica — on behalf of residents, wants Council to change the SUP to be more in line with similar permits, which typically carry a two- to five-year term.

A joint neighborhood association meeting took place last night at which representatives urged residents to turn out en mass to support the proposal.

The next hearing takes place starting at 1 p.m. Oct. 16 at City Hall.

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