HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 27096-08-2024ORDINANCE NO.27096-08-2024
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH, BEING ORDINANCE NO. 21653, AS
AMENDED, CODIFIED AS APPENDIX "A" OF THE CODE OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 5, SUPPLEMENTAL USE
STANDARDS," ARTICLE I, "STANDARDS FOR SELECTED USES," TO
AMEND SECTION 5.116 "HOTEL, MOTEL, OR INN" TO ADD THAT A
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT IS REQUIRED WHERE A
HOTEL, MOTEL, OR INN IS LESS THAN 1,000 FEET FROM A PUBLIC
OR PRIVATE, PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL
FACILITIY; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE
CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING
A PENALTY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN THE
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, Chapter 211 of the Texas Local Government Code ("TLGC") authorizes the
governing body of a municipality to adopt zoning regulations to promote the public health, safety,
morals, or general welfare; and
WHEREAS, on December 9, 1986, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 9781
amending the zoning ordinance to prohibit location of hotels and motels within 500 feet of
residentially zoned property and requiring Planned Development/Specific Use zoning and a site
plant for any hotel or motel within 1,000 feet of residentially zoned property;
WHEREAS, with the recodification of the zoning ordinance on August 13, 1999 by
Ordinance No. 13986, the City Council removed the 500-foot restriction, but retained the Planned
Development/Specific Use requirement for hotels and motels within 1,000 feet of residentially
zoned property;
WHEREAS, the City now wishes to amend Section 5.116 "Hotel, Motel, or Inn" of the
zoning ordinance to add that a Planned Development District is required where a hotel, motel, or
inn is less than 1,000 feet away from a public or private, primary and secondary educational
facilities providing education up through and including the twelfth grade level; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS
SECTION 1.
Chapter 5 "Supplemental Use Standards" of Ordinance No. 21653, the Zoning Ordinance
of the City of Fort Worth, is hereby amended to revise Article 1, "Standards for Selected Uses",
to amend Section 5.116(a) "Hotel, Motel, or Inn" to read as follows:
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See. 5.116(a) HOTEL, MOTEL, OR INN
(a) Location adjacent to residential district. Where a hotel, motel or inn is less than 1,000
feet from any one- or two-family district, or public and private, primary and secondary educational
facilities providing education up through and inc luding_the twelfth grade ether- than ""'ITT 2" hio
e, a planned development district shall he created for such use. Provided
This regulation shall not be -reed apply to the following: when 4he pr-epett-y ki
least inn feet.
(1) When the property in the one- or two-family district is used for utilities waterways,
public parks, railroads or other nonresidential public use or separated from the hotel
motel or inn by a public right-of-way of at least 300 feet,• or
(2) The Central Business Zoning District-, or
(3) The following mixed -use or form -based zoning districts:
a. MU-1;
b. MU-2,
c. Panther Island,
d. Near Southside;
e. Camp Bowie;
f. Trinity Lakes;
g. Berry/University; or
h. Stockyards
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of the
City of Fort Worth, Texas (2015), 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
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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 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 Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for each offense. Each day that a violation
exists 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 provisions of Ordinances No. 3011, 13896, 21653 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 Iitigation, 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 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 7.
All other provisions of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fort Worth not herein amended
shall remain in full force and effect.
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SECTION 8.
This ordinance shall take effect upon adoption and publication as required by Iaw.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
By:
Jannette Goodall,,,,.. 20240916 25;A -0 tea°
Christopher Austria, Jannette S. GoodalI,
Senior Assistant City Attorney City Secretary
ADOPTED: August 27, 2024
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