HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 15925ORDINANCE NO. ~~ ~~
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 4.708 TO ALLOW ZERO LOT LINE AND
CLUSTER HOUSING IN `C" AND `D" MULTIFAMILY DISTRICTS AT
THE SAME DENSITY AS APARTMENTS, AMENDING SECTION 4.709
TO ALLOW TOWNHOUSES AND ROW HOUSES IN `C" AND `D"
MULTIFAMILY DISTRICTS AT THE SAME DENSITY AS
APARTMENTS, 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, in response to requests from the Commercial Corndors Task Force, the
City Plan Commission, and City Council members, the Crty Manager appointed a Development
Standards Task Force to conduct a review of development standards and procedures as they
affect central city revrtahzation 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 committees to focus on
four categories of development issues: construction codes, subdivision and street development
standards, zoning regulations, and process unprovements;
WHEREAS, after studying 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 parlang
requirements, allow townhouses, zero lot tine 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 pravate recreation facilities m all single-family distracts;
delete obsolete industrial uses from the Nonresidential Distract Use Table; allow trees planted m the
parkway to be credited toward landscape requurements; establish development standards for single-
family detached dwelling amts on 3,300 square foot lots in the `Rl Zero Lot Line/Cluster distract;
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 linuted only by setback requirements;
WHEREAS, in order to simplify consideration of the proposed amendments, each issue has
bee included in a separate ordinance;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.
SECTION 1.
Section 4 708, `Zero Lot Line/Cluster ("R1 ') District" Subsection C, `Property
Development Standards" is amended to allow detached zero lot tine units, attached zero lot tine
amts, and cluster housing units to be constructed m the `C" Medium Density Multifamily and `D"
High Density Multifamily Distracts according to `Rl standards at the densities pertmtted in `C" or
`D" as applicable, by amending the development standards tables as follows.
Units per Acre Maximum number of 13 amts per acre on average,
unless located m a `C" or `D" Distract where
authorized density shall apply
Units per Acre Maximum number of 13 amts per acre on average,
unless located in a `C" or `D" Distract where
authorized density shall apply
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Units per Acre Maximum number. of 15 amts per acre on average,
unless located in a `C" or `D" District where
authorized densrtv shall annly
All other development standazds shall remain m effect without change.
SECTION 2.
Section 4 709 `Townhouse/Cluster ("R2") District" Subsection C, `Property Development
Standards" is amended to allow townhouses and row houses to be constructed in the `C" Medium
Density Multifamily and `D" High Density Multifamily Districts according to `R2" standards at the
densities permitted in `C" or `D" as applicable, as follows:
Units per Acre Maximum number of 12 units per acre on average,
unless located in a `C" or `D" Distract where
authorized density shall annly
All other development standazds shall remain m effect without change.
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 in
duect 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 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,
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paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or
decree of any court of competent ~unsdiction, 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 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 separate 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 time of the
effective date of this ordinance and, as to such accrued violations and all pending litigation, both
civil and cruninal, whether pending m 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 Crty 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.
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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
As 'stant City Attorney
ADOPTED• ~~onC~. ~ ~j ~.00
EFFECTIVE. `~ ~