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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 10334fir. .~ ~' ~ ~ J! S ®RDINANCE N0. D~ ~'~ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 301 1 , AS AMENDED, THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF~'FORT WORTH, APPENDIX "A" OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1956), AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 2-B, "CF" COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT BY DELETING CERTAIN USES AND ADDING CERTAIN USES; PROVIDING DEVELOPMENT REGULA® TIONS; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULA- TIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A PENALT Y CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN PAMPHLET FORM; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSS- MENT AND ENROLLMENT; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DAT E. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH , T E XAS : SECT ION I . T hat Section 2-B, "CF's Community Facilities District, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 2-B. °CF' Community Facilities District. The 'CF' Community Facilities District is created as a district to accommodate those institutional and related uses which are established in response to the health, safety, educational and welfare needs of a neighborhood, community or major sector of the city. A. Use Regulations: In the 'CF° Community Facilities District, no building or land shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected, reconstructed, altered or enlarged except for one or more of the follow- ing uses: 1. Principal Uses. The following uses may be established as principal uses upon compliance v~ith the prow i- sions of Subsection B, below: a. Elementary and secondary schools whose curricula satisfy the requirements of the state public school laws and the regulations of the State Department of Education. (Also permitted in 'A° One_Family District.) ~~~~- ®r® J C ,---~~ i ~'`'; b. Righer education institutionsa junior and senior colleges, universities, con- servatories and seminaries, offering curricula recognized by collegiate, academic and professional organization accrediting boards. c. Museums, libraries, fine arts centers, and similar cultural facilities not otherwise permitted. d. Country clubs operating as nonprofit membership organizations having a golf course, tennis center, swimming center or any combination thereof. e. Public and private general play golf courses (excluding commercial miniature golf courses and commercially operated golf driving ranges), public parks and playgrounds, public community eenters, public tennis courts, public swimming pools, and public zoos. f. Post Offices. g. Religious institutions, churches and facilities for related activities, including those of worship, fellowship and education. h. Accessory buildings and uses. i. Day nursery and kindergarten. j. family home. 2. Special Exception Uses: The following uses may be established only when authorized by the Uoard of Adjustment under the provisions of Section 2~s a. Care facilities, nursing homes, Group Eiomes I and I1 , ~ ~~~ W2- . ~. r'~, ~ ,..--. b. ~iospitals with their related facilities and supportive retail and personal ser- vice uses operated by or under the con- trol of the hospital primarily for the convenience of patients, staff and visi- tors. c. Health service facilities: clinics, offices for dentists and doctors licensed or similarly recognized under the laws of the State of T exasg offices for specialists in the health service field, such as physical, audio and speech therapy, podiatry, psychological testing and counseling; medical, dental and optical laboratories; retail and display rooms for the sale of prescrip- tions, medicines and the rental of medi- cal supplies and equipment. d. Helistop for loading and unloading of passengers and air express. e. Lodges or civic clubs. f. Power substations, water tanks and reser- voirs, water and sewage treatment plants. g. Accessory buildings and uses added after origin al approval . ho Auxiliary parking,, subject to the re- quirements of Section 19-A.~2 of the zoning ordinance. B. Development, controls: It is intended by these regulations that develop- ment in the 'CF° Community Facilities District shall be compatible with development in the dis- trict which it adjoins. 1. Y3eight and Area: The height and area regula- ti~ons of the contiguous district which has the most restrictive height and area regula- tions shall govern. 2. Front Yard : Minimum of twenty ( 20 ) feet when a front yard of an A or Id residential dis- trict is across the street. -3- ' (/ r ~r Minimum of ten (10) feet when a front yard of A-R and R-1 through DH-2 is across the street. 3. Rear Yard: Minimum of five (5) feet except where the rear yard abuts an alley ten (10) feet or wider. 4. Side Xard : Niin imum of f ive ( 5 ) feet where abutting a residential zone. Min imum of ten ( 1 0 ) feet when across the street from the side yard of a residential zone. 5. Width of Lot : Min imum width of fifty ( 50 ) e e t . 6. Parking : The parking requirements of Sectaon 19 shall apply to all uses estab- lished in the ,'CF" District. 7. Si ns: Ydentification sign shall be permitted sub? ct to the following provisions: a) Signs shall be permitted to identify the use or uses of the property on which displayed. b) A sign or combination of signs shall have a maximum allowable area of expos- ure along each dedicated street frontage of not more than one square foot of sign area for each ten ( 10) linear feet of frontage along said street; provided, however , a min imum of at least one sign shall be allowed having an area of twelve (12) square feet. c) Not more than fifty (50) per cent of the total allowable sign area may be located in the required yard space along a dedi- cated street. However, no individual sign in such required yard space shall exceed twenty (20) square feet in sign area. d) Symbols which are designed as an inte- gral part of the building structure and _~_ _. r-., _w r r symbols and signs which are not visible or readable from the public street shall not be limited by the above regulations. e) Signs located across the street from A, B, A-R, R-1 and R-2 residentially zoned property shall not be illuminated. The source of light for illuminated signs shall not be visible and shall not be intermittent or flashing. Revolving signs shall not be permitted. 8. When abutting and across the street from an A, B, A-R, R-1 and R-2 residential zone, parking is prohibited in the front yard. Access to parking may be through the front yard. 9. Except for country clubs, elementary and secondary schools, public parks, playgrounds, community centers, churches, day nurseries and kindergartens, all °CF° uses shall be located at least one hundred (100) feet from an A, B, A-R, R-1 and R-2 residential zone. 10. A buffer yard in accordance with the require- ments of Section 18D shall be required when adjacent to any residential district zoned A-1 family, A-R residential, B-~ family, R-1 and R-2 residential. C. Site: The site for any use permitted in the 'CF' D strict may be composed of one or more parcels of land whether or not the same are contiguous or separated by a dedicated right-of-way. No permit shall be issued for any construction or to estab- lish a use on any site unless the same is identi- fied in an approved subdivision filed i.n the Tarrant County Plat Records.1° SECT IOt~ I I . This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordi- nances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such -5- s~ { .,, (~` ~`~. Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed. SECTION III. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, para® graphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sen- tence, paragraph or section. sECT Iori Iv. Any person, f irm or corporation who violates, disobeys omits, neglects or refuses to comply with or who resists the enforcement of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be f fined not more than One Thousand and tvoJ 100 Dollars ( $1 , 000.00 ) for each offense. Each day that a violation is permitted to exist shall constitute a separate offense. O1CJ V.d IoL! tl s All rights and remedies of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, are expressly saved as to any and all violations of the provi- sions of Ordinance P1o. 301 or any other ordinances affecting -6 -- FI' ~ l,i ~.. l V zoning which have accrued at the time of the effective date of this ordinance; and, as to such accrued violations ad all pending litigation, both civil and eriminal, whether pending in eourt or not, under such ordinances, same shall not be affected by this ordinance but may be prosecuted until final disposition by the courts. SECT ION VT . The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is here- by authorized to publish this ordinance in pamphlet form for general distribution among the public, and the operative provi- sions of this ordinance as so published shall be admissible in evidence in all eourts without further proof than the production thereof, as provided in Chapter XXV, Section 3, of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth, Texas. SECT YON VII . The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the cap- tion and Sections I, IV and IX in the minutes of the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City. SECT ION VI T I The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is here- by directed to publish the caption and Sections I, IV and IX of this ordinance for two (2) days in the official newspaper of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, as authorized by Section 52.013, Texas Local Government Code. -~- f ~. SECTION IX® this ordinance shall tae in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as required by lac~p and it is so ordainedo APPROVED AS T O FORM AND LEGALITY: Cgty Attorney Date : 2 9 ~ ~~ ~ AD®~rED: _ o27j_ f J~/ ~~~- EFFECTIVE: J !~~