HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 12348ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, BEING ORDINANCE NO
3011, AS AMENDED, CODIFIED AS APPENDIX "A" OF THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF FORT WORTH (1986), AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING
SECTION 2-H, "'PD' PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT°, SUBSECTION
D (3) TO REQUIRE THAT WRITTEN NOTICE OF ALL PUBLIC HEARINGS
BEFORE THE ZONING COMMISSION ON APPLICATIONS FOR SITE PLAN
APPROVAL BE SENT TO OWNERS OF REAL PROPERTY WITHIN 300
FEET OF THE PROPERTY FOR WHICH THE SITE PLAN HAS BEEN
SUBMITTED, PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE
CUMULATIVE, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, PROVIDING A
SAVINGS CLAUSE, PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION IN PAMPHLET
FORM, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH,
TEXAS
SECTION 1
Subsection D(3) of Section 2-H, "`PD' Planned Development District", of
Ordinance No 3011, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fort Worth,
as amended, is hereby amended by changing the notice requirements for public
hearings before the Zoning Commission on applications for site plan approval from
200 feet to 300 feet The amended Subsection D(3) shall read as follows
D ARproval Procedures
3 The Zoning Commission shall hold a public hearing on all applications for
site plan approval The procedures for hearing a request for approval of
a site plan shall be in accordance with this section Written notice of
the public hearing before the Zoning Commission shall be sent to the
owners of real property within three hundred feet (300') of the property
upon which a site plan has been submitted, such notice to be given not
less than ten (10) days before the date set for hearing to all such
owners who have rendered their said property for City taxes, as their
ownership appears on the last approved ad valorem tax roll Such
notice shall be served by depositing same, properly addressed and
postage paid, in the United States mail When property lying within 300
feet of the proposed site plan is located within territory which was
annexed to the City after the final date for making the renditions which
are included on the last approved tax roll, at least fifteen (15) days
notice of the time and place of the public hearing shall be published in
the official newspaper or a paper of general circulation in the City
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 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 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
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 3011 or any other
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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 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 5
The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby authorized to
publish this ordinance in pamphlet form for general distribution among the public, and
the operative provisions of this ordinance as so published shall be admissible in
evidence in all courts without further proof than the production thereof, as provided
in Chapter XXV, Section 3, of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth, Texas
SECTION 6
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and
publication as required by law, and it is so ordained
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
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