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ORDINANCE 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 6.301 TO ALLOW TREES IN THE
PARKWAY TO BE CREDITED TOWARD REQUIRED LANDSCAPE
AREAS, 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 Corridors 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 revitahzahon and other Crty Council strategic goals,
WHEREAS, the Development Standards Task Force is compnsed 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 categones of development issues: construction codes, subdivision and street development
standards, zoning regulations, and process unprovements,
WHEREAS, after stud}nng the zoning ordinance and conducting numerous meetings and
public forums the zoning subcomrnittee of the Development Standards Task Force has
recommended amendments to the zoning ordinance;
WHEREAS, the proposed amendments reduce and simplify off-street parking
requirements; allow townhouses, zero lot line residential dwellings, and cluster housing to be
constructed m the `C" and `D" multifamily distncts at the same density as apartments; update site
plan standards; allow pravate parks and pnvate recreation facilities m all single-family districts,
delete obsolete industrial uses from the Nonresidential Distract Use Table; allow trees planted in the
parkway to be credited toward landscape requirements, establish development standards for single-
family detached dwelling amts on 3,300 square foot lots in the `R1 Zero Lot Line/Cluster distract;
and repeal maxunum 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, in 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 6.301 `Landscaping Subsection H, `Landscape Area Required" is amended to
add the following subsection 3 and to renumber `Minimum Landscape Area for Undeveloped
Sites" as subsection 4
H. Landscape Area Required
3 Landscaping in Parkway Parkway (area between the street curb and front
property line) may be counted toward landscape area required by this
subsection. Trees may be planted in this area and used to meet tree
requirements in Sections 6.301.H.1.a or 6.301.H.2.a, subject to approval by
the Parks and Community Services and Transportation and Public Works
Departments. Groundcover and flowers are permitted in the parkway Shrubs
are prohibited.
SECTION 2.
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
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direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such Code, in which event conflicting
provisions of such ordinances and such Code aze hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.
It is hereby declazed to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, pazagraphs,
sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance aze severable, and, if any phrase, clause, sentence,
pazagraph or section of this ordinance shall be declazed unconstitutional by the valid judgment or
decree of any court of competent ~unsdichon, 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 m 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 sepazate offense.
SECTION 5.
All nghts and remedies of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, aze 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 crunmal, 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.
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SECTION 6.
The Crty 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.
SECTION 7
This ordinance shall take effect upon adoption and publication as required by law
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
Assistant City Attorney
ADOPTED• ~G~ 2`~ Zoo
EFFECTIVE _ ~-
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