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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 18208-07-2008B®R.JDINANCE N®. 18208-07-20085 WI~12>EAS, the zoning ordinance establishes regulations for off street parking and loading including the amount of parking allowed, location, maneuvering and other development standards; and WHEREAS, these regulations provide uniform development of off-street parking and loading throughout the City which minimize any detrimental effects on adjacent properties and on the environment; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the regulations in Article 2 "Off-Street Parking and Loading" should be applicable to both the minimum required parking to be provided and any parking provided in excess of the minimum; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that in order to lessen the detrimental effects ofoff-street parking on the environment the installation of pervious parking surfaces should be permitted; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 6.200.A. "General Requirements" of Article 2, "Off-Street Parking and Loading" of Chapter 6, "Development Standards" of Ordinance Number 13896, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fort Worth, is amended to require the parking regulations in Article 2 apply to the minimum required parking and any additional parking provided, and to read as follows: Sec. 6.200 General Requirements A. The regulations in this Article shall apply to required parking spaces and non- required parking spaces with the exception of public parks. Nothing in this Article shall require additional parking spaces to be furnished for an existing building that is repaired, altered, maintained, or modernized, where no structural alterations have been made and the size of the building is not increased. SECTION 2. Section 6.202.E, "Parking Surfaces" of Article 2, "Off-Street Parking and Loading" of Chapter 6, "Development Standards" of Ordinance Number 13896, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fort Worth, is amended to require all drives and parking spaces to be hard surfaced and dust free, with some exceptions, to read as follows: Sec. 6.202. E. Parking Surface 1. Minimum required parking spaces must be hard-surfaced and dust free, except in instances where the adjacent street is unpaved, in which case the drives and parking spaces shall be hard-surfaced within one year after all adjacent streets are paved. Fire lanes and ADA spaces may not be constructed with porous surfaces. 4. Hard surface parking is not required for: a. non-passenger vehicles and tractor trailers for industrial uses, and b. motor vehicle inventory for sale. All parking must be, at a minimum, on a compacted gravel base. SECTION 3. Chapter 9 "Definitions" of Ordinance No. 13896, the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fort Worth is hereby amended to add defmitions for "Hard Surface (Parking)", "Porous Surface (Parking)", and "Driveway" to read as follows: HARD-SURFACE (PARKING): Any porous or non porous surface suitable for the function of driving and parking of vehicles; non porous surfaces are typically asphalt and concrete. POROUS SURFACE (PARKING): A parking surface constructed of materials that permit water to enter the ground by virtue of their nature or by large spaces in the material, such as pre-cast and mold in-place concrete blocks, concrete grids, interlocking bricks, and plastic mats with hollow rings, hexagonal cells or porous concrete. DI7IVEWA~': Any hard surface parking area that provides access to private property from the right-of--way to the required off site parking behind the building line. A residential driveway may consist of compacted gravel base confined by a border. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances 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 5. 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, 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 unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. SECTION 6. 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 Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for each offense. Each day that a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense. SECTION 7. All rights and remedies of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, are expressly saved as to any and all violations of the provisions of Ordinances No. 3011, 13896 and 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 8. 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 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 take effect upon adoption and publication as required by law. APPROViiED AS TO F .AND LEGALITY: Y~ ~ ~ Assistant City Attorney ADOPTED: July 29, 2008 / ~-/ EFFECTIVE: ~ 1 ~ b ~..