Fort Worth Zoning Ordinance
- 1 General Provisions
- 2 Review Bodies
- 3 Review Procedures
- 4 District Regulations
- 5 Supplemental Use Standards
- Article 1. Standards For Selected Uses
- 5.100 General
- 5.101 Ambulance Dispatch Station
- 5.102 Appliance Sales
- 5.103 Assaying
- 5.104 Automotive Repair; Paint and Body Shop
- 5.105 Bakery
- 5.106 Bed and Breakfast Home
- 5.107 Bed and Breakfast Inn
- 5.107A Boarding Houses
- 5.108 Car Wash
- 5.109 Cold Storage Plant
- 5.110 Community Home
- 5.111 Day Care Center
- 5.112 Drive-In Business
- 5.113 Firewood Sales
- 5.114 Greenhouse or Plant Nursery
- 5.115 Group Home I or II
- 5.116 Hotel, Motel or Inn
- 5.116A Home Occupations
- 5.116B Industrialized Housing
- 5.117 Kennel
- 5.118 Kindergarten
- 5.119 Laundry or Dry Cleaner
- 5.120 Manufacturing
- 5.121 Metal Casting
- 5.122 Metal Foundry or Fabrication Plant
- 5.123 Metal Stamping, Dyeing, Shearing or Punching
- 5.124 Newspaper Distribution Center
- 5.125 Pawnshop
- 5.126 Print Center, Commercial
- 5.127 Probation or Parole Office
- 5.128 Recording Studio
- 5.129 Recreational Vehicle Park
- 5.130 Recycling Collection Facility
- 5.131 Sheet Metal Shop
- 5.132 Stable, Commercial
- 5.133 Storage, Non Accessory Outside
- 5.134 Store, Large Retail
- 5.135 Swimming Pool, Commercial
- 5.136 Telecommunications Antenna
- 5.137 Telecommunications Tower and Stealth Telecommunication Tower
- 5.138 Theater, Movie Theater or Auditorium
- 5.139 Terminal: Truck, Freight, Rail or Water
- 5.140 Utility Transmission Tower or Distribution Line; Natural Gas Compressor Stations
- 5.141 Vehicle Junkyard
- 5.142 Veterinary Clinic
- 5.143 Warehouse or Bulk Storage, Warehouse, Mini
- 5.144 Fresh Water Fracture Ponds
- Article 2. Sexually Oriented Businesses
- Article 3. Accessory Uses
- Article 4. Temporary Uses
- 6 Development Standards
- 7 Nonconformities
- 8 Enforcement
- 9 Definitions
5.125 Pawnshop
- Distance Restrictions
Regardless of the zoning district in which it is located, a pawnshop shall be subject to the following distance restrictions:
- No pawnshop shall be located within 500 feet of any one- or two-family district.
- No pawnshop shall be located within 500 feet of any other pawnshop.
- Special Exception by Board of Adjustment
The Board of Adjustment may grant a special exception to the above distance restrictions in accordance with the requirements
set forth for special exceptions in Chapter 3, Article 3 provided, however, that in granting any such special exception the
Board of Adjustment shall place such reasonable conditions on the location, use and operation of the pawnshop as are necessary
to protect and maintain nearby one- and two-family residential districts.
