City of Fort Worth, Texas Development Guide 2008
Preface
Forward
To the Development Community:
The City of Fort Worth is a growing community that values the quality of life available to our citizens. The shape of our city is guided by a myriad of public and private investments in homes, businesses and public infrastructure. The City Council has established the following strategic goals:
- Make Fort Worth the nation’s safest major city.
- Improve mobility and air quality.
- Create and maintain a clean, attractive city.
- Strengthen the economic base,develop the future workforce, and create quality job opportunities.
- Promote orderly and sustainable development.
Achievement of each of these goals relies on quality development that continues to make Fort Worth an attractive place to live and do business. This includes safety of buildings, proper planning of streets and land uses, reservation of open space for recreation, retention and planting of trees for air quality among many other critical activities. Success also requires that the development process supports the efforts of private investors to complete projects that meet these goals in a timely and cost-effective way.
In that spirit, the City has developed this guide to facilitate your development activities. It provides a broad overview of the various processes and departments that are important to the successful completion of your projects. We hope you will find this tool useful and look forward to serving as a partner with you as we work toward the common goal of sustainable development for the future of Fort Worth.
Susan Alanis
Director of Planning and Development
City of Fort Worth , TX