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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 8785i L s ! l ORDINANCE NO. ___~1_~SL-J AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 3011, AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 8663, BEING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDI- NANCE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, CODIFIED AS APPENDIX A OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS (1964), AS AMENDED, BY REVISING SECTION 13 THEREOF TO PROHIBIT CER- TAIN RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE "I" LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT BUT RETAINING ALL OTHER USES; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A PENAL- TY; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, on October 5, 1982, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 8663 revising certain provisions of Ordinance No. 3011, as amended, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fort Worth; and WHEREAS, by adopting Ordinance No. 8663, it was the intention of the City Council to eliminate certain residential developments from the "I" Light Industrial District; and WHEREAS, due to a typographical error, Ordinance No. 8663 has been interpreted to eliminate many other uses which should properly be permitted in the "I" Light Industrial District; NOW, THEREFORE: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 3011, as specifically amended by Ordinance No. 8663, is amended by revising Section 13, "I" Light Industrial District, subsection A, "Use Regulations," to read as follows: "A. Use Regulations: "1a. Any uses permitted in the 'H' Business District except apartments. 1b. One dwelling unit when a part of a business. 2. Amusement or baseball parks. 3. Assaying (other than gold or silver). r 3a. Automobile laundry and steam cleaning. 4. Bakeries - wholesale. 5. Blacksmithing, horseshoeing or wagon shops. 6. Body and fender work for automobiles and house trailers. 7. Bottling works, soft drinks. 8. Building material storage yards.. 9. Candy., canning or preserving factories. 10. Carnivals. 11. Carpet and rug cleaning. 12. Cereal mills. 13. Chicken batteries or brooders. 14. Cleaning, dying, pressing works, laundry and washateria. 15. Coffee roasting. 16. Coal, coke or wood yards. 17. Cold storage plants. 18. Contractor's or storage yards. 19. Cooperage works. 20. Creameries. 21. Dog and cat hospitals and kennels, when not less than one hundred (100) feet from an "A", "B", "C-R", "C" or "D" District. 22. Electroplating. 22a. Furniture repair. 23. Galvanizing, small utensils, etc. 24. Ice plants or storage houses. 25. Lumber yards. 26-R. Machine shops, provided power not to exceed fif- ty (50) horsepower is employed in the operation of any one machine. 27-R. Manufacture of: Products from aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, steel,- tin or other metals and from bone, leather, paper, rubber, shell, wire or wood, of any kind other than those enumerated under Districts "J" or "K", provided power not to ex- ceed fifty (50) horsepower is employed in the operation of any one machine. -2- 28-R. Manufacture of: Artificial flowers, ornaments, awnings, tents and bags, blacking, cleaning or polishing prepa- rations, boats (small) twenty-eight (28) feet or less in length, brooms or brushes, buttons and novelties, canvas products, clothing, suits, coats or dresses for wholesale trade; food pro- ducts, syrups, fruit juices, extracts, drugs or medicine, except products classified under Districts "J" or "K", furniture, gas or electric fixtures, ice cream, mattresses or their renova- tion; peanut and pecan products, potato chips, radio and television sets, signs, including electric; provided power not in excess of fifty (50) horsepower is employed in the operation of any one machine. 29. Meat processing (no slaughtering). 30. Milk bottling or central distribution stations. 31. Monument or marble works, finishing and carving only. 31a. Motor vehicle junk yard or used automobile junk area as a special exception upon approval of the Board of Adjustment after a report from the Police, Health, Public Works and Fire Depart- ments, subject to the following limitations: (a) First approval - a period not to exceed five years; (b) First extension - a period not to exceed three years; (c) Each subsequent extension - a period not to exceed two years. Extensions of time shall each be subject to the same application, report and hearing procedures as the original approval. 31b. Paper box manufacture. 32. Pattern shops. 33. Printing, lithographing, bookbinding, newspapers and publishing. 34. Sheet metal shops using sheet metal of sixteen (16) gauge, or thinner. 35. Spray painting or paint mixing. 36. Stables, public or riding, when not less than one hundred (100) feet from an "A", "B", "C-R", "C" or "D" District. 37. Stone monument works. 38. Storage in bulk of, or warehouse for commodities and materials enumerated in districts "E-R" through "I", provided that they comply with fire ordinance number 2470. -3- E 39. Terminals - freight, rail or water. 40. Terminal, motor freight - on approval of the Building Commissioner after a recommendation by the City Traffic Engineer and provided that such motor freight terminals shall meet the following requirement: a. A traffic flow plan approved by the City Traffic Engineer, based on an accurate plot plan drawn to scale. The applicant shall prepare and submit the plot plan to the City Traffic Engineer. b. Loading, parking and maneuvering space shall be entirely on private property. c. The operation of any such motor freight terminal shall be not,,~iess than two hundred (200) feet from an a"A", "B", "C-R", "C" or "D" District. 41. Tracks - team, spur, loading or storage; and freight yards. 42. Veterinary hospitals. ~` 43. Welding shops, custom work, not including struc- tural welding. 44. Wholesale produce market or wholesale houses. 45. Electric Power Substation. 46. Any similar uses not included in Districts "J" and "K" which are not noxious or offensive be- cause of odors, smoke, dust, noise, fumes, or vibrations. 47. Accessory buildings and uses customarily inci- dental to the above." SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be cumulative of all ordinances of the City of Fort Worth except where the provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances 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 unconstitu- tional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent a -4- .~ - , •,. ~' a ~, • .. .r jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs 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 un- constitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. SECTION 4. All rights or remedies of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, are expressly saved as to any and all violations of Ordinance No. 3011, as amended by Ordinance No. 8663 of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, and as to any other ordinance affecting zoning which have occurred at the time of the effective date of this ordinance; and, as to such accrued violations and all pending litigation, both civil and crimi- nal, 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 5. The violation of any provision of this ordinance or of the Fort Worth City Code shall be deemed an offense and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars ($200), and each viola- tion hereof, and each day on which there is a failure to comply with the terms of this ordinance, shall be and is hereby declared to be a separate and distinct offense and punishable as such. SECTION 6. The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby authorized to publish the text of the Fort Worth Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as hereby amended, in pamphlet form for general distribution among the interested public, and such provisions of this ordinance as so published shall be admissible in evidence in all courts without further proof than the production of said pamphlet, as provided in Chapter XXV, Section 3 of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth, Texas. -5- "= • J ~ .. r. ~ ~ J • +.• ~ SECTION 7. 1 The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby directed to publish the caption, penalty clause and effective date of this ordinance for five (5) days in the official newspaper of the City of Fort Worth, as authorized by TEX. REV. CIV. STATS., Art. 1176b-1. SECTION 8.. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and publication-as above specified. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: - tl Y City Attorney Date: ~~~~ ~~3 ~~ " ~ Adopted : G~'V.~`~_ ~~, ~ °I ~~ ` . Effective Date: A i --~ -6-