HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 15924ORDINANCE NO. 1 ~ l
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH, BEING ORDINANCE NO. 13896, AS AMENDED,
CODIFIED AS APPENDIX A OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT
WORTH, AMENDING SECTION 6.202 CONCERNING PARKING LOT
DESIGN STANDARDS, PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE IS
CUMULATIVE, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, PROVIDING
A PENALTY CLAUSE, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING
FOR PUBLICATION AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, m response to requests from the Commercial Comdors Task Force, the
City Plan Commission, and City Council members, the City Manager appointed a Development
Standards Task Force to conduct a review of development standards and procedures as they
affect central city revitalization and other City Council strategic goals;
WHEREAS, the Development Standards Task Force is comprised of 42 members,
consisting of public officials, representatives from the development community and neighborhood
and business leaders;
WHEREAS, the Development Standards Task Force formed four comrmttees to focus on
four categories of development issues: construction codes, subdivision and street development
standards, zomng regulations, and process unprovements;
WHEREAS, after stud}nng the zoning ordinance and conducting numerous meetings and
public forums the zoning subcommittee of the Development Standards Task Force has
recommended amendments to the zomng ordinance;
WHEREAS, the proposed amendments reduce and sunphfy off-street parking
requirements; allow townhouses, zero lot line residential dwellings, and cluster housing to be
constructed in the `C" and `D" multifamily distracts at the same density as apartments; update site
plan standards; allow private parks and private recreation facilities in all single-family districts;
delete obsolete industrial uses from the Nonresidential District Use Table; allow trees planted m the
parkway to be credited toward landscape requirements; establish development standards for smgle-
family detached dwelling units on 3,300 square foot lots m the `R1 Zero Lot Line/Cluster district;
and repeal maximum lot coverage regulations for A 2.5" through A 5" One-Family and `B"
Two-Family Distracts so that lot coverage will be lunited only by setback requirements;
WHEREAS, m order to simplify consideration of the proposed amendments, each issue has
been included m a separate ordinance;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS
SECTION 1.
Section 6.202, `Parking Lot Design Standards" Subsection A, `Space Size" is amended to
allow parking spaces adjacent to landscape areas to be reduced m length from 18 feet to 16 feet
and to project into the landscape area, provided the parking spaces are separated from the
landscape area by curbing or approved wheel stops, as follows.
6.202 Parking Lot Design Standards
A. Space Size
The following minimum standards shall apply to the width and length of parking
spaces.
*Parking spaces adjacent to landscape areas may project into the landscape area
and be reduced to 16 feet in length when separated from the landscape area by
curbing or approved wheel stops.
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SECTION 2.
Section 6.202, `Parking Lot Design Standards" Subsection D `Maneuvering Space, is
amended to recognize that public right-of way may be used for maneuvering and parking in
connection with approved on-street parking and to recognize that parallel parking spaces may be
substituted for off-street parking requirements as provided m regulations governing MU-1 and
MU 2 Mixed-Use Districts, as follows.
6.202 Parking Lot Design Standards
D. Maneuvering Space
1 Maneuvering space shall be located completely off the right-of way of a
public street, place or court, except for on-street parking approved by the
Traffic Engineer
2. Parking areas that would require the use of public right-of--way for
maneuvering shall not be acceptable as required off-street parking spaces
other than for one and two-family dwellings, except for on-street parking
approved by the Traffic Engineer
3 Parking parallel to the curb on a public street shall not be substituted for off
street parking requirements, except as provided for in an MU-1 or MU-2
Mixed-Use District.
SECTION 3.
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 m
direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such Code, m which event conflicting
provisions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4.
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
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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 Crty Council without the incorporation m this ordinance of any
such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
SECTION 5.
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 separ;~te offense.
SECTION 6.
All rights and remedies of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, are expressly saved as to any and
all violations of the provisions of Ordinance No. 13896 which have accrued at the tune 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 7
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby du'ected 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.
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SECTION 8.
This ordinance shall take effect upon adoption and publication as required by law
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
Assistant City Attorney
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