Fort Worth Zoning Ordinance

Contents

• How to use this Ordinance

• 1 General Provisions
  • 1.100 Interpretations, Purpose and Conflict
  • 1.101 Transitional Provisions
  • 1.102 Effective Date
  • 1.103 Severability
• 2 Review Bodies
  • 2.100 Zoning Commission
  • 2.101 Board of Adjustment
  • 2.102 Urban Design Commission
  • 2.103 Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission
  • 2.104 Downtown Design Review Board
  • 2.105 Urban Forestry Board
• 3 Review Procedures
  • Article 1. General
    • 3.100 Building Permits
    • 3.101 Certificate of Occupancy
  • Article 2. Ordinance Interpretation
    • 3.200 Request for Interpretation
    • 3.201 Fee Required
    • 3.202 Notice
    • 3.203 Board of Adjustment Action
    • 3.204 Appeal
  • Article 3. Special Exceptions
    • 3.300 Application Required
    • 3.301 Fee Required
    • 3.302 Notice
    • 3.303 Board of Adjustment Action
    • 3.304 Appeal
    • 3.305 Limitation on Reapplication
  • Article 4. Variances
    • 3.400 Application Required
    • 3.401 Fee Required
    • 3.402 Notice
    • 3.403 Board of Adjustment Action
    • 3.404 Expiration of Variance
    • 3.405 Appeal
    • 3.406 Limitation on Reapplication
  • Article 5. Text or map amendment (Rezoning)
    • 3.500 Application Required
    • 3.501 Fee Required
    • 3.502 Notice
    • 3.503 Zoning Commission Public Hearing and Recommendation
    • 3.504 City Council Hearing and Action
    • 3.505 Limitation on Reapplication
    • 3.506 City Plan Commission Review for Effectiveness
  • Article 6. Other Review Procedures
    • 3.600 Designation of "PD", "CD", "HSE", "HC" and "DD" Districts
• 4 District Regulations
  • Article 1. General
    • 4.100 Districts Established
    • 4.101 District Hierarchy
    • 4.102 District Maps
    • 4.103 Compliance with District Standards
  • Article 2. Special Purpose Districts
    • 4.200 Agricultural District ("AG")
    • 4.201 Community Facilities ("CF") District
    • 4.202 Manufactured Housing ("MH") District
  • Article 3. Planned Development ("PD") District
    • 4.300 Purpose and Intent
    • 4.301 Designation of "PD" District
    • 4.302 Procedure for Site Plan Approval in "PD" District
    • 4.303 Site Plan Revisions
    • 4.304 Considerations for Site Plan Approval
    • 4.305 Uses
    • 4.306 Property Development Standards
  • Article 4. Conservation("CD") Overlay District
    • 4.400 Purpose and Intent
    • 4.401 Zoning Classification
    • 4.402 Criteria for Designation
    • 4.403 Procedures for Designation of Property
    • 4.404 Application
    • 4.405 Conservation District Guidelines
    • 4.406 Public Hearings
    • 4.407 Recording of Designations on Zoning Map
    • 4.408 Filing of Designation and Guidelines in Property Records
    • 4.409 Enforcement
    • 4.410 Appeal, Penalties
  • Article 5. Historic Preservation Overlay Districts ("HSE", "HC", "DD")
    • 4.500 Purpose and Intent
    • 4.501 Appointment of Historic Preservation Officer
    • 4.502 Districts Established
    • 4.503 Procedures for Designation of Property
    • 4.504 Certificate of appropriateness
    • 4.505 Enforcement
    • 4.506 Unreasonable economic hardship
    • 4.507 Designation as highly significant endangered ("HSE")
    • 4.508 Designation as historic and cultural landmark ("HC")
    • 4.509 Designation as demolition delay ("DD")
    • 4.510 Demolition by neglect
    • 4.511 Public safety hazards and emergency securing measures
    • 4.512 Appeal; penalties
  • Article 6. Residential District Use Table
    • 4.600 Allowed Uses
    • 4.601 Key to Table Designations
    • 4.602 Unlisted Uses
    • 4.603 Residential District Use Table
  • Article 7. Residential Districts
    • 4.700 One-Family ("A-2.5A") District
    • 4.701 One-Family ("A-43") District
    • 4.702 One-Family ("A-21") District
    • 4.703 One-Family ("A-10") District
    • 4.704 One-Family ("A-7.5") District
    • 4.705 One-Family ("A-5") District
    • 4.706 One-Family Restricted ("AR") District
    • 4.707 Two-Family ("B") District
    • 4.708 Zero Lot Line/Cluster ("R1") District
    • 4.709 Townhouse/Cluster ("R2") District
    • 4.710 Low Density Multifamily ("CR") District
    • 4.711 Medium Density Multifamily ("C") District
    • 4.712 High Density Multifamily ("D") District
  • Article 8. NonResidential District Use Table
    • 4.800 Allowed Uses
    • 4.801 Key to Table Designations
    • 4.802 Unlisted Uses
    • 4.803 Nonresidential District Use Table
  • Article 9. Commercial Districts
    • 4.900 Neighborhood Commercial Restricted ("ER") District
    • 4.901 Neighborhood Commercial ("E") District
    • 4.902 Low Intensity Mixed-Use ("MU-1") District
    • 4.903 Low Intensity Greenfield Mixed-Use ("MU-1G") District
    • 4.904 General Commercial Restricted ("FR") District
    • 4.905 General Commercial ("F") District
    • 4.906 Intensive Commercial ("G") District
    • 4.907 Central Business ("H") District
    • 4.908 Trinity Uptown ("TU") District
    • 4.909 Near Southside (NS) District
  • Article 10. Industrial Districts
    • 4.1000 Light Industrial ("I") District
    • 4.1001 High Intensity Mixed-Use ("MU-2") District
    • 4.1002 High Intensity Greenfield Mixed-Use (MU-2G) District
    • 4.1003 Medium Industrial ("J") District
    • 4.1004 Heavy Industrial ("K") District
  • Article 11. Inactive Districts
    • 4.1100 Flood Plain ("O-1") District
    • 4.1101 Flood Plain ("O-2") District
    • 4.1102 Multifamily Highrise ("D-HR1") District
    • 4.1103 Multifamily Highrise ("D-HR2") District
    • 4.1104 Office Midrise ("O-M") District
    • 4.1105 Planned Commercial ("E-P") District
    • 4.1106 Industrial Park ("IP") District
  • Article 12. Urban Design Districts
    • 4.1200 Urban Design District-Downtown
    • 4.1201 Trinity Uptown District
• 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
    • 5.200 Regulations Affecting All Sexually Oriented Businesses
    • 5.201 Classifications
    • 5.202 Prohibited Locations of Any Type of Sexually Oriented Business
    • 5.203 Specialized Certificate of Occupancy
    • 5.204 Employee Background Checks
    • 5.205 General Regulations for Sexually Oriented Businesses
    • 5.206 Conduct of Employees
    • 5.207 Hours of Operation
    • 5.208 Interior of the Sexually Oriented Business
    • 5.209 Exterior appearance of Sexually Oriented Business
    • 5.210 Sign Requirements
    • 5.211 Additional Regulations for Adult Entertainment Cabarets
    • 5.212 Additional Regulations for Escort Agencies
    • 5.213 Additional Regulations for Outcall Businesses
    • 5.214 Additional Regulations for Nude Modeling Businesses
    • 5.215 Additional Regulations for Adult theaters and adult motion picture theaters
    • 5.216 Additional Regulations for Adult Motel
    • 5.217 Additional regulations for Adult Arcades
    • 5.218 Display of Sexually Explicit Materials to Minors
    • 5.219 Enforcement
    • 5.220 Revocation
    • 5.221 Injunction
  • Article 3. Accessory Uses
    • 5.300 General
    • 5.301 Accessory Buildings on Residential Lots
    • 5.302 Accessory Buildings in "AG" District
    • 5.303 Accessory Uses in Unified Residential Developments
    • 5.304 Satellite Antenna (Dish)
    • 5.305 Fences
    • 5.306 Storage or Display in Commercial Districts, Outdoor
    • 5.307 Large Animals
  • Article 4. Temporary Uses
    • 5.400 Amusement, Outdoor (Temporary)
    • 5.401 Batch Plant, Asphalt or Concrete (Temporary)
    • 5.402 Garage or Other Occasional Sale
    • 5.403 Model Home
    • 5.404 Residence for Security Purposes, Temporary
    • 5.405 Trailer, Portable Sales, Construction or Storage
    • 5.406 Mobile Vendors
• 6 Development Standards
  • Article 1. General
    • 6.100 Height
    • 6.101 Yards
  • Article 2. Off-Street Parking And Loading
    • 6.200 General Requirements
    • 6.201 Off-Street Parking Requirements
    • 6.202 Parking Lot Design Standards
    • 6.203 Off-Street Loading Facilities
  • Article 3. Landscaping, Buffers, and Urban Forestry
    • 6.300 Bufferyard and Supplemental Building Setback
    • 6.301 Landscaping Buffers
    • 6.302 Urban Forestry
  • Article 4. Signs
    • 6.400 Scope
    • 6.401 Enforcement
    • 6.402 Scenic Preservation Areas and Corridors
    • 6.403 Signs Not Requiring a Permit
    • 6.404 Temporary On-Premise Signs Requiring a Permit
    • 6.405 Prohibited Signs
    • 6.406 Measurement of Signs
    • 6.407 Relation to Zoning Districts
    • 6.408 Regulations Governing On-Premise Attached Signs in Commercial and Industrial Districts
    • 6.409 Regulations Governing On-Premise Detached Signs in Commercial and Industrial Districts
    • 6.410 Unified Sign Agreements for On-Premise Signs
    • 6.411 Electronic Changeable Copy Signs
    • 6.412 Sales Office and Model Home Signs
    • 6.413 Nonconforming Signs
    • 6.414 Kiosk Signs
    • 6.415 Noncommercial Copy
  • Article 5. Residential Design Standards
    • 6.500 Access Through Residential Districts
    • 6.501 Lot Area Where Not Served by Sanitary Sewer
    • 6.502 Two Detached Dwelling Units on One Lot
    • 6.503 Zero Lot Line Dwellings
    • 6.504 Cluster Housing in the "R1" District
    • 6.505 Townhouse or Cluster Housing in the "R2" District
    • 6.506 Unified Residential Development
    • 6.507 Single Family Residential Design Standards
    • 6.508 Entry Features
• 7 Nonconformities
  • 7.100 Continuation of Nonconforming Use
  • 7.101 Additions, Alterations, Extensions, Repairs
  • 7.102 Discontinuation of Nonconforming Use
  • 7.103 Certificate of Occupancy for Nonconforming Uses
  • 7.104 Restoration of Partially Destroyed Building
  • 7.105 Subsequent Amendments to Zoning Ordinance
  • 7.106 Nonconforming Lot of Record
  • 7.107 Specific Nonconforming Uses
  • 7.108 Exercise of Eminent Domain
• 8 Enforcement
  • 8.100 Enforcement Agent
  • 8.101 Violations and Penalties
  • 8.102 Additional Remedies
• 9 Definitions
  • 9.100 Use of Certain Words
  • 9.101 Defined Terms

• Appendix A Legislative History
• Appendix B Maps
• Appendix C Use Index