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Home My WebLink AboutOrdinance 5572 ORD kPFANCE'NO. .SS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 3011, SAME BEING AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE AND RESTRICT THE LOCATION AND USE OF BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND LAND FOR TRADE, INDUSTRY, RESIDENCE OR OTHER PURPOSES; THE HEIGHT, NUMBER OF STRUCTURES, THE SIZE OF YARDS AND OTHER SPACES, OFF STREET PARKING AND LOADING, AND THE DENSITY OF POPULATION; AND FOR SAID PURPOSES TO DIVIDE THE MUNIC- IPALITY INTO DISTRICTS OF SUCH NUMBER, SHAPE, AND AREA AS MAY BE DEEMED BEST SUITED TO CARRY OUT THESE REGULATIONS, BY AMENDING THE INDEX: SECTION fvr DEFINiT10NS, AND SECTION 2. DIS- TRICTS: BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SECTION, SECTION 2-A "AG" AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT: PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE OF ALL OTHER ORDINANCES AFFECTING ZONING; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS. SECTION I. That Page IV, INDEX, of Zoning Ordinance Number 3011 be amended by adding thereto Item 2-A. "AG" Agricultural District. SECTION 2. That SECTION I. DEFINITIONS be amended by adding thereto the following additional definitions to be inserted in their proper alphabetical and numerical listing places: 18-A.1 FEEDING PEN, ACCESSORY. An area used for feeding of livestock as an accessory use only to farming activities. 18-A.2.FEEDING PEN, COMMERCIAL. An area where livestock are confined, whether under fence or not, and are fed in any quantity or in any manner other than grazing on growing herbage, for any purpose other than as a normal accessory use to farming activities. Pasturing of livestock on growing herbage, including rental of grazing land for pasturing shall not be considered as a commercial feeding pen use. SECTION 3. That the first and second Paragraphs of SECTION 2. DISTRICTS of Ordinance Number 3011 be amended so that hereafter they shall read as follows: in order to regulate and restrict the location of trades and industries and the location of buildings erected, reconstructed, altered or enlarged for specified uses, to regulate and restrict the height and bulk of buildings hereinafter erected, reconstructed, altered or enlarged; to regulate and determine the area of yards and other open spaces and to regulate and limit the density of population, the City of Fort Worth is hereby divided into DISTRICTS of which there shall be sixteen (16) known as: "AG" Agricultural District or District "AG" "A" One Family District or District "A" "B" Two Family District or District "B" "C-R" Restricted Apartment District or District "C-R" "C" Apartment District or District "C" "D" Apartment District or District "D" "E-R" Restricted Commercial District or District "E-R" "E-P" Planned Commercial District or District "E-P" "E" Commercial District or District "E" "F-R" Restricted Commercial District or District "F-R" "F" Commercial District or District "F" "G" Commercial District or District "G" "H" Business District or District "H" "I" Light Industrial District or District "I" "J" Light Industrial District or District "J" "K" Heavy Industrial District or District "K" The order of classification shall be as enumerated above with the "AG" Agricultural District being the most restrictive and the "K" Heavy Industrial District being the least restrictive. SECTION 4. That Ordinance Number 3011 be amended by adding a new section, SECTION 2-A, "AG" AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT which shall read as follows: SECTION 2-A "AG" AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT USE REGULATIONS: In the "AG" Agricultural District, no building or land shall be used and no buildings shall be hereafter erected, reconstructed, altered or enlarged, nor shall a certificate of occupancy be issued, except for one or more of the following uses: I. Farms, ranches, orchards, truck gardens, nurseries for the growing of plants and similar agrarian activities involving the growing of plants and raising and pasturing of livestock, including accessory feeding pens but not commercial feeding pens, provided that no operation shall be conducted which will be obnoxious or offensive. 2. Single family dwellings clearly incidental to the operation of the above listed activities, including dwellings on the same farm or ranch used exclusively for the housing of employees living on the premises; provided that tracts in the "AG" District which contain less than ten (10) acres in separate ownership shall be limited to one (1) principal dwelling. 3. Accessory buildings and structures clearly incidental to the above operations, including but not limited to barns, stables, equipment sheds, poultry houses, swine pens, granaries, pump houses, water tanks and silos; provided that accessory buildings and structures on tracts in the "AG" District which contain less than four (4) acres shall be limited to fifty percent (50%) of the area of the principal dwelling, provided further than such allowable area shall not be less than fifteen hundred (1,500) square feet. 4. Installations owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, the State of Texas or Public Utility Companies, which installations are necessary for the public safety, governmental services, or the furnishing of utility services to or through the "AG" District. 5. Public and Parochial schools, colleges and universities, not including correctional iinstitutions or trade schools. 6. Museums, libraries, parks, playgrounds, community centers or recreational areas owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, or the State of Texas, or owned by such agencies and operated under their control and supervision. 7. Churches. The location, size, use and operation of any of the above listed uses may be modified by the Zoning Board of Adjustment in case of evident hardship, after public notice and hearing. HEIGHT AND AREA REGULATIONS: In the "AG" Agricultural District, the height of buildings and structures, the minimum dimensions of lots and yards, and the minimum lot area per family shall be as follows: HEIGHT: No building or structure hereafter erected, reconstructed, altered or enlarged shall exceed three and one-half (3 1/2) stories nor shall it exceed forty-five (45) feet. FRONT YARD: There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty-five (25) feet. REAR YARD: There shall be a rear yard having a depth of twenty-five percent (25%) of the depth of the lot provided such yard need not exceed twenty-five (25) feet. SIDE YARD: On interior lots of fifty (50) feet or less in width there shall be a side yard on each side of a building having a width of not less than ten percent (10%) of the width of the lot, provided that such side yard shall not be less than three (3) feet. For lots of more than fifty (50) feet in width, either of the side yards may be not less than five (5) feet, and the sum of the side yards shall be twenty percent (20%)of the width of the lot, but need not exceed twenty (20) feet. On corner lots, the side yard regulations shall be the same as for interior lots except in the case of reversed frontage where the corner lot abuts on the side of a lot facing the other intersecting street, in which case there shall be a side yard on the corner lot of not less than fifty percent (50%) of the front yard required on the lot abutting the rear of the corner lot or separated only by an alley, provided that this regulation shall not be interpreted so as to reduce the buildable width, after providing the required minimum side yard, of a corner lot of record and in separate ownership at the time of passage of this ordinance to less than twenty-eight (28) feet. No accessory buildings on a said corner lot shall project beyond the front yard of the lots in the rear, nor shall a building be erected, reconstructed, altered or enlarged closer than five (5) feet to the rear. SECTION 5. The zoning regulations and districts, as herein established, have been made in accordance with the comprehensive plan for the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, and the general welfare of the community. They have been designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic, flood, and other dangers; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, parks and other public requirements and with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the municipality. SECTION 6. This ordinance shall be cumulative of all other ordinances of the City of Fort Worth affecting zoning and shall not repeal any of the provisions of said ordinance except in those instances where provisions of those ordinances are in direct conflict with the pro- visions of this ordinance. SECTION 7. Should any section, clause or provision of this ordinance be declared by the court to be invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of the ordinance as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid. SECTION 8. This ordinance will take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as required by law. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: S. G. JOHNDROE, . CITY ATTORNEY Adopted: