HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 10446+~ ~.
ORDINANCE NO. ` ~/~~
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDI-
NANCE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, BEING ORDINANCE
N0. 3011, AS AMENDED, CODIFIED AS APPENDIX "A" OF THE
CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS, (1986), AS
AMENDED, BY PROVIDING THAT PAROLE AND PROBATION OFFICES
SHALL BE PERMITTED IN "FR" RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL
DISTRICT AND LESS RESTRICTED ZONING DISTRICTS; BY
PROVIDING THAT PAROLE AND PROBATION OFFICES BE LOCATED
MORE THAN 500 FEET (500') FROM ONE OR TWO FAMILY RESI-
DENTIAL DISTRICTS; PROVIDING FOR NONCONFORMING PAROLE
AND PROBATION OFFICER LOCATED IN LEASED FACILITIES;
PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS
CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT;
PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN PAMPHLET FORM; PROVIDING
FOR A PENALTY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN THE
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
WORTH, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
.~
That "SECTION 18, MODIFICATIONS TO DISTRICT REGULATIONS" of
the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, being Ordinance No 3011, as
amended, codified as Appendix A of the Code of the City of Fort
Worth, Texas, (1986), as amended, is hereby amended by adding the
following regulation concerning parole or probation offices as
No. 15 to Subsection A so that it reads as follows: ,~
A.
15. Parole or probation offices
a. Unless located in a building, other structure, or
land under the control, administration or juris-
diction of a state or federal agency, parole or
probation offices shall be permitted only in the
"FR" restricted commercial district and less
restricted zoning districts.
b. Regardless of the zoning, parole or probation
offices shall not be located within five hundred
feet (500') of any one or two family residential
i
I ' ~
district, measured from the nearest property line
of the parole or probation office to the nearest
property line of any one or two family residential
district.
c. Nonconforming parole or probation offices located
in leased facilities shall be permitted to con-
tinue in operation only during the term of the
existing lease. Upon expiration of the existing
lease, the nonconforming use shall no longer be
permitted.
SECTION 2.
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
Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances
and such Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.
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.
-2-
s 1 ti
~ •.
1
SECTION 4.
Any person, firm 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
fined not more than one thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) for each
offense. Each day that a violation is permitted to exist shall
constitute a separate offense.
SECTION 5.
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 No. 3011 or any other ordinances affecting
zoning which have accrued at the time of the effective date of
this ordinance; and, as to such accrued violations and all
pending litigation, both civil and criminal, whether pending in
court or not, under such ordinances, same shall not be affected
by this ordinance but may be prosecuted until final disposition
by the courts.
SECTION 6.
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 courts without further proof than the production
thereof, as provided in Chapter XXV, Section 3, of the Charter of
the City of Fort Worth, Texas.
-3-
r .
k ~ ~
SECTION 7.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby
directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the cap-
tion, Section 1, penalty clause and effective date in the minutes
of the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance
records of the City.
SECTION 8.
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is here-
by directed to publish the caption, Section 1, penalty clause and
~ effective date 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.
SECTION 9.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage and publication as required by law, and it is
so ordained.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
~" City At/t~o~rney G~
Date : i V ~U Sr ~ ~~/
ADOPTED: ~ ~~
EFFECTIVE:
-4-