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1967 ZONING ORDINANCE
^f CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ZONING DISTRICTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND ADOPTING A ZONING MAP DISCLOSING THE
LI" SEVERAL DISTRICTS AND USE AREAS AND THE RESTRICTIONS AND LIMITATIONS
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AND PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SUCH DISTRICTS AND AREAS; REGULATING
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THE HEIGHT, NUMBER OF STORIES AND SIZE OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER
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;n STRUCTURES; THE SIZE AND PERCENTAGE OF LOTS THAT MAY BE OCCUPIED;
THE SIZE OF YARDS, COURTS AND OTHER OPEN SPACES; THE DENSITY OF
POPULATION; THE LOCATION AND USE OF BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND THE
LAND FOR TRADE, INDUSTRY, RESIDENCES AND OTHER PURPOSES; AND DIVIDING
THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS INTO DISTRICTS? AND REGULATING THE
ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, ALTERATION, REPAIR OR USE OF BUILDINGS,
STRUCTURES OR LAND WITHIN SUCH DISTRICTS¢ PROVIDING UNIFORM REGULA-
TIONS FOR THE SEVERAL CLASSES OR KINDS OF BUILDING OR STRUCTURES, AND
USES, SPECIAL AND GENERAL, WITHIN THE RESTRICTIVE DISTRICTS; PROVIDING
FOR OFF - STREET PARKING AND LOADING REGULATIONS, SPECIFIC USE PERMITS;
PROVIDING FOR BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT AND EXCEPTIONS AND VARIANCES;
PROVIDING FOR A METHOD OF ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES, FOR A CERTIFICATE
OF OCCUPANCY AND COMPLIANCE; PROVIDING FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF
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THE ORDINANCE, AMENDMENT AND CHANGES, REPEALING CONFLICTING
Uj ORDINANCES, A SAVING CLAUSE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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WHEREAS, On January 6, 1958, the City Council of the
City of North Richland Hills, in accordance with State Law, adopted
::j a Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance which classified the area within
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' the city limits into five (5) general use classifications or districts
and since then, from time to time, additional territory has been added
to the City of North Richland Hills by annexation• and,
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WHEREAS, through experience and administration, the City
Council is of the opinion that the Ordinance as originally adopted,
providing five (5) general use districts or class.ificat.ions, no
longer subserves public interest and affords sufficient protection
for the general welfare of the citizenship and the peaceful enjoy-
ment of their homes and properties; and by reason thereof, the City
Council requested the City Planning and Zoning Commission to conduct
a study of the Zoning Ordinance as it existed and the City Planning
and Zoning Commission has, after study of more than eighteen (18)
months, and after holding a joint public hearing with the City
Council, as provided by law, filed with the City Council of the City'
of North Richland Hills, on the 13th day of November, 1967, a re-
Is
vised Zoning
Ordinance
and map dividing
the City into
eleven (11)
use districts
and has
recommended to the
City Council
the adoption of
such ordinance and zoning district map, and that the Ordinance of
January 6, 1958 be repealed; and,
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of North Richland
Hills did give public notice by publishing on the 3rd day of October,
19671 in the Daily News Texan, the official newspaper of the City of
North Richland Hills, a newspaper of general circulation in said city,
the proposed revised Zoning Ordinance, together with the accompanying
map and setting a public hearing thereon on the 23rd day of October,
1967, and by ordinance on the 9th day of October, 1967, provided for
a joint hearing between the City Planning and Zoning Commission and
the City Council to be held on the 23rd day of October, 1967, and
did send written notices of this joint public hearing of the City
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0 Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council by mail on the
11th day of October, 1967, to all real property owners in said city
as the ownership appears on the last approved city tax roll, and the
joint public hearings were conducted until every person whose property
was affected or who had any interest in the matter had an opportunity
to be heard, and fair and complete hearings were offered all who
desired to be heard, and said hearings were officially closed, first
by the Chairman of the City Planning and Zoning Commission, and
thereafter by the Mayor of the City of North Richland Hills, at
which time the Chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission pre-
sented the final report of said Commission, wherein the Planning
and Zoning Commission recommended adoption of the Comprehensive
• Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Map, as revised, be adopted, and, said
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final report having been signed by the Chairman and all members of
the Planning and Zoning Commission, was presented to the Mayor and
the City Council of the City of North Richland Hills on the 13th
day of November, 1967, and after duly inspecting this proposed
revision of the Zoning Ordinance and Map, found same to represent
their best judgment and opinions so as to promote the health, safety,
morals, general welfare and convenience of the people, at which time
the City Council adopted and approved the Comprehensive Zoning
Ordinance and the Map, as revised, all members present voting for
approval thereby adopting the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to-
gether with the map conforming to said Ordinance in its final forms
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
That Ordinance Number 33 of the City of North Richland
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Hills, Texas, known as the Zoning Ordinance of 1958, and the amend-
ments thereto, including the Zoning District Map, except as specific-
ally provided herein, are hereby repealed and a new Ordinance with
Lai Zoning Map attached is hereby enacted in lieu thereof, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE I
0 PREAMBLE - PURPOSE AND OBJECT OF THE ORDINANCE
Section 1. The zoning regulations and districts as
herein established have been made in accordance with a comprehensive
master plan for the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals and
the general welfare of the City of North Richland Hills. They have
been designated to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure
safety from fire, panic and other danger, to provide adequate light
and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concen-
tration of population, to facilitate adequate provisions of trans-
portation, water, sewage, schools, parks and other public require-
ments. They have been made with reasonable consideration, among
other things, for the character of district and for its peculiar
suitability for particular uses, and with a view of conserving the
value of the buildings and to encourage the most appropriate use of
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the land throughout the City of North Richland Hills, Texas.
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• ARTICLE II
TITLE
Section I. This Ordinance shall be known as and may
be cited and referred to as the "Zoning Ordinance" to the same effect.
ARTICLE III
USE DISTRICTS AND ZONING MAP
Section I. The City of North Richland Hills, is hereby
divided into eleven (11) types of classified districts. The use,
height and area regulations as set out herein are uniform in each
district. The eleven districts established herein shall be known ass
Abbreviated
Designation
Zoning District Name
AG
Agricultural District
1 -F -12
One - Family Dwelling District
1 -F -9
One - Family Dwelling District
1 -F -7
2 -F -9
One - Family Dwelling District
Two - Family Dwelling District
MF
Multiple- Family Dwelling District
NR
Neighborhood Retail District
LR
Local Retail District
C
Commercial District
I
Industrial District
PD
Planned Development District
F. P. prefixed to any district designates a subdistrict subject to
the provisions of Article VII.
Section 2. The boundaries of these Districts are in-
dicated upon the zoning map of the City of North Richland Hills,
which is adopted with a declared to be a part of this ordinance.
All notations, references and other information shown upon said
zoning map are hereby made a part of this ordinance and shall be
considered as much a part of the same as if the matteres of infor-
mation set forth thereby were all fully contained and described
herein. Said map shall, on its face, be identified and verified
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in the manner following: Said map shall bear the title,
"ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS "s
it shall bear even date with the final reading of this ordinance;
and it shall be attested by the signatures of the Mayor and the
City Secretary. The original of said map shall be kept in the
office of the City Secretary in the Municipal Buildings.
Suction 3. No land shall be used for and no
building shall be erected for, or converted to, any use other
than provided in the regulations prescribed for the District in
which it is located, except as hereinafter provided.
ARTICLE IV
PURPOSE OF ZONING DISTRICTS
Section 1. Each zoning district herein established
is provided for a specific purpose or in accordance with a
comprehensive plan for the location of various types of uses
throughout the City, as follows:
1 -F -12 - Single- Family District: There exists in
certain parts of the City of North Richland Hills many fine
large homes on lots larger than now required by ordinance. To
conserve the character of the areas and the value of buildings
located therein and to provide for the gradual expansion of such
residential development in accordance with the need and a compre-
hensive plan for various types of residential districts, the
1 -F -12 Single- Family Districts are provided. These districts are
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public and parochial schools; churches and public park areas to
serve the neighborhood. The sections designated in the 1 -F -12
Districts are limited in area and are not intended to be sub-
ject to major alterations by future amendment except at the
fringe of such districts where minor adjustments may become
appropriate to permit the reasonalbe development of vacant tracts
or the gradual transition from other districts.
1 -F -9 - Single- Family Districts: This district
comprises a major portion of the existing single- family dwelling
development of the city as developed under the old "A" Residential
District and is considered to be the proper zoning classification
for large areas of the undeveloped land remaining in the city
appropriate for single - family dwelling use. This district is
intended to be comprised of single - family dwellings together with
public and parochial schools, churches, public parks, essential to
create basic neighborhood units. Limited portions of such neigh-
borhood units may consist of denser residential zoning classifica-
tions which are shown on the Zoning District Map or which later
may be created by amendments to such map.
1 -F -7 - Single- Family Districts: This classification
creates a single- family dwelling district which is appropriate in
area requirements for moderate value single - family housing
development and would, at the same time, provide a reasonable
standard of light, air and similar living amenities.
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2 -F -9 - Two - Family Dwelling Districts Two- family
or duplex dwellings will play a more dominate role in the future
development of the City of North Richland Hills as the City
increases in population. This district is appropriate for and
is intended to be used for spacious type two - family dwelling
units designed as part of a residential neighborhood.
MF Multiple- Family Dwelling District: This district
provides for the development of medium density apartment areas
suited for a suburban community where garden or family type apart-
ment units will dominate this type of development. The area re-
gulations are designed to protect the residential character and
to prevent the overcrowding of the land by providing minimum
standards for building spacing, yards, off - street parking and
coverage. It is anticipated that additional areas may be
designated in the MF District from time to time in the future
where such change is appropriate and access and utility services
can reasonably accommodate the increased density. These districts
should be located in close proximity to major thoroughfares and
pref errably adjoin business zoned property.
NR Neighborhood Retail District: This district is a
limited retail category intended for use near neighborhood areas
for purposes of supplying day to day retail needs of the residents
such as food, drugs and personal services. The NR Neighborhood
Retail District occurs often at limited corner locations in
existing developments and intended for small service areas in
new developments.
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LR Local Retail District: The local retail
district provides a uniform set of standards for modern shopping
centers, development including requirements for permanent screen-
ing, off - street parking and building set - backs. In as much as
the LR, Local Retail District, occurs in close proximity to
residential development, building set -backs and screening require-
ments are included to achieve a compatible relationship between
the retail development and the adjacent residential areas which
they are intended to serve. It is anticipated that from time to
time, additional LR, Local Retail Districts, will be applied to
the zoning district map where such retail service is required to
serve developing residential communities. These areas should
primarily be located at the intersection of major thoroughfares.
"C" Commercial District: Part of the existing strip
business development consists of uses related to the automobile,
including drive -ins or curb service catering places, used car
lots, repair garages, amusements, and repair and service uses not
compatible with retail shopping areas and tend to obstruct and
interfere with shopping functions.. To accommodate this type of
development and to encourage the most appropriate future use of
land, the "C" Commercial District is provided. This district
should be generally limited to freeway frontage or frontage on
extra heavy traveled highways which are part of the city's
major thoroughfare system.
"I" Industrial District: Industrial development,
particularly of the distribution and light processing types, will
represent the basic foundation of industrial development within the
City of North Richland Hills and is expected in the future as the
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important factor in the metropolitan labor market and as planned
freeway development is completed within the general area providing
easier access and quicker distribution.
For this purpose, the "I" Industrial District was
created to permit all legal manufacturing and industrial uses
except those enumerated in paragraph 36 of Article VI. All types
of housing development other than that for caretaker or watchman
are excluded from the "I" Industrial District.
PD, Planned Development District: In order to provide
flexibility in the planning and development of projects with
combinations of uses or of specific physical designs such as office
centers with office and housing elements, special industrial
districts, housing developments or any similar developments, a PD,
Planned Development District is provided. This district is intended
to be applied to the district map as an amendment to the Zoning
Ordinance. Certain maximum and minimum standards are specified for
various use categories and certain standards such as yards, coverage,,
building spacing are to be determined by the design. Specific
development conditions and development schedules can be enforced
with respect to a PD, Planned Development District and failure to
adhere to a development schedule can be the basis of removing all or
part of a PD, Planned Development District from the Zoning District
Map. The purposes of the PD, Planned Development District are to
achieve flexibility and variety in the physical development pattern
0 of the City, to encourage a more efficient use of open space and to
encourage the appropriate use of land. It is intended that
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cognizance be taken of the surrounding property and the proper
protection of such property be given in locating and approving
any PD, Planned Development District.
"AG" Agricultural District: There exists in certain
fringe areas of the City of North Richland Hills, land which is
presently used for agricultural purpose and to which urban services
are not yet available. These lands should appropriately continue to
be used for agricultural purposes in conformity with the orderly
growth of the City. The uses permitted in the AG Agricultural
District are intended to accommodate the normal farming, ranching
and gardening activities. It is anticipated that all of the AG
Agricultural District area will be changed to other urban zoning
categories as the area within the Corporate Limits of North
Richland Hills becomes fully developed. Newly annexed territory
shall be temporarily zoned as "AG" Agricultural District until
permanent zoning is established.
FP, Flood Plain Districts A zoning district designation
appearing on the Zoning District Map may be preceded by the prefix
FP indicating a subdistrict. Such indication shall apply to
zoning districts located in low lying flood plain areas along
major streams and drainageways in the City of North Richland Hills
which are subject to periodic inundation and are unsuitable in
present form for use as a building site. The area designated in a
FP Subdistrict may be used only for those following uses listed in
Article VII until the area or any portion thereof located in the FP
Subdistrict is certified by the City Engineer as being suitable for
the uses permitted in the general district and it has been deter-
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mined that building construction would not create an obstruction
to drainage nor a hazard to life or property and that such use or
construction is not contrary to the public interest.
"S" Specific Use Permits: Certain uses, because of
their nature and existing loation, are not appropriate for
categorizing into specific zoning districts. Such uses include
among others, utility installations, colleges and universities,
institutions, community facilities, zoos, cemeteries, country
clubs and private clubs. To provide for the proper handling and
location of such specific uses, provision is made for amending
this ordinance to grant a permit for a specific uses in a specific
location. All uses for which Specific Use Permits may be granted are
• shown on the Use Schedule, Article VI. The procedure for approval
of a Specific Use Permit includes a public hearing and the amending
ordinance may provide for certain restrictions and standards of
operation. The indication that it is possible to grant a Specific
Use Permit in the Use Schedule does not consitute a grant of
privilege for such use nor is there any obligation to to approve a
Specific Use Permit unless it is the finding of the City Planning
and Zoning Commission and City Council that such specific use is
compatible with adjacent property use and consistent with the
character of the neighborhood.
ARTICLE V
NEWLY ANNEXED TERRITORY
Section 1. All territory hereafter annexed to the City
of North Richland Hills shall be temporarily classified as "AG"
Agricultural District, until permanent zoning is established by
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the City Council of the City of North Richland Hills. The
procedure for establishing permanent zoning on annexed territory
shall conform to the procedure established by law for the adoption
of original zoning regulations.
Section II. In an area temporarily classified as "AG"
Agricultural District:
1. No persons shall erect, construct or proceed
or continue with the erection or construction of
structure or add to any building or structure or
to be done in any newly annexed territory to the
Richland Hills without first applying for and ob-
permit or certificate of occupancy therefor from
Inspector or the City Council as may be required
any building or
cause the same
City of North
taining a building
the Building
herein.
2. No permit for the construction of a building or
use of land shall be issued by the Building Inspector other than
a permit which will allow the construction of a building permitted
in the "AG" Agricultural District, unless and until such territory
has been classified in a zoning district other than the "AG" Agri-
cultural District, by the City Council in the manner provided by
law except as provided in Paragraph (3) following:
3. An application for a permit for any other use
than that specified in Paragraph (2) above shall be made to the
Building Inspector of the City of North Richland Hills and by him
referred to the City Planning and Zoning Commission for consideration
and recommendation to the City Council. The City Planning and
0 Zoning Commission is making its recommendation to the City
Council concerning any such permit shall take into consideration
the appropriate land use for the area and the Comprehensive Land
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0 Use Plan for the City of North Richland Hills. The City Council
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after receiving and reviewing the recommendations of the City
Planning and Zoning Commission may, by majority, vote to authorize
the issuance of a Building Permit or Certificate of Occupancy or
may disapprove the application.
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SEC T I O N I
USE OF LAND AND BUILDINGS
LAND AND BUILDINGS IN EACH OF THE FOLLOWING CLASSIFIED
DISTRICTS MAY BE USED FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING LISTED
USES BUT NO LAND SHALL HEREAFTER BE USED , AND NO BUILD-
ING OR STRUCTURE SHALL HEREAFTER BE ERECTED ALTERED
OR CONVERTED WHICH IS ARRANGED OR DESIGNED OR USED FOR
OTHER THAN THOSE USES SPECIFIED FOR THE DISTRICT IN WHICH
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Section II. Special Definitions and Explanations
Noted in Use Regulations
1.
CommunitZ Unit Development - Shall r
_ mean a
related group of residences with associated
uses .including a private community center which
conforms to the type of residences and uses which
are permitted in the. district in which the
development is located and which are planned as
an entity and subject to a es ign, development
and regulations as a sinqle related and unified
residential development by a single owner or a
group of owners acting jointly. The area, density
and site requirements on .individual dwellth g s
may vary from the standard of the district in
which the Community Unit Development is located
but the overall density standards for the district
shall be observed. Housing permitted within the
Community Unit Development shall conform to the
district in which the development is located a
one-
family dwelling - detached, is a free-standing
building having a s.inq.le dwelling unit and occupied
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by not more than one family and a two family
dwelling (duplex) is a free -- standing building
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having two dwelling units, each buildin g with
separate services and utl iities and occupied by
not more than two families. The Community Unit
Development conforming housing, shall be rocess
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as a Specific Use Permit.
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Section II. Special Definitions and Explanations
Noted in Use Regulations,
1. Community Unit Development - Shall mean a
related group of residences with associated
uses including a private community center which
conforms to the type of residences and uses which
are permitted in the district in which the
development is located and which are planned as
an entity and subject to design, development
and regulations as a single related and unified
residential development by a single owner or a
group of owners acting jointly. The area, density
and site requirements on individual dwellings
may vary from the standard of the district in
which the Community Unit Development is located,
but the overall density standards for the district
shall be observed. Housing permitted within the
Community Unit Development shall conform to the
district in which the development is located, a one -
family dwelling - detached, is a free - standing
building having a single dwelling unit and occupied
by not more than one family and a two family
dwelling (duplex) is a free-standing building
having two dwelling units, each building with
separate services and utilities and occupied by
not more than two families. The Community Unit
Development conforming housing, shall be processed
as a Specific Use Permit.
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A Community Unit Development, where the overall
density standards and building types proposed
will vary from those of the district in which
the Community Unit Development is located, shall
be known as a Community Unit Development, non -
variable housing and shall be processed as a
Planned Development District,
2. Collette` University or Private School - An
institution established for educational purposes
and offering a curriculum similar to the public
schools or an accredited college or university,
but excluding trade and commerciallachools.
3. Day Camp S Private - A recreational area, with or
without buildings, where children engage in
supervised training and recreation during day-
light hours.
4. Day Nursery or Kindergarten School - An
establishment where four (4) or more children
are left for care or taining during the day or
portion thereof.
5. Farm, Ranch, Garden or Orchard - An area of
five (5) acres or more which is used for growing of
usual farm products, vegetables, fruits, trees,
and grain and for th-e raising thereon of the
usual farm poultry and farm animals such as
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horses, cattle and sheep and including the
necessary accessory uses for raising, treating
and storing products raised on the premises,
but not including the commerical feeding of
offal or garbage of swine or other animals and
not .including any type of agriculture of
husbandry specifically prohibited by ordinance
or law.
6. Hospital (Acute Care - An institution where sick
or injured patients are given medical or surgical
treatment intended to restore them to health and
an active life and which is licensed by the
State of Texas.
7. Hospital (Chronic Care) - An institution where
those persons suffering from generally permanent
types of illness, injury, deformity, deficiency
or age are given care and treatment on a pro-
longed or permanent basis and which is licensed
by the State of Texas.
81 Residence Home for Acted - A home where elderly
people are provided with lodging and meals with
or without nursing care.
9. School, Public or Parochial - A school under the
sponsorship of a public or religious agency
having a curriculum generally equivalent to
public elementary or secondary schools, but not
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including private or trade or commercial
schools.
10.
Tennis or Swim Club - A private recreational
club with restricted membership, usually of
less area than a Country Club, but including
a club house and swimming pool, tennis courts
and similar recreational facilities, none of
which are available to the general public.
11.
Railroad Track and Right -of -Way - but not
including railroad stations, sidings, team
tracks, loading facilities, docks, yards or
maintenance areas.
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Telephone Line and Exchange, but not including
public business facilities storage or repair
facilities.
13.
Accessory Building - In a retidence district, a
subordinate building, attached or detached and
used for a purpose customarily incidental to the
main structure such as a private garage for
automobile storage, tool house, lath or green-
house as a hobby (no business), home workshop,
children's playhouse, storage house or garden
shelter, but not involving the conduct of a
business.
14. GuestHouse, Detached - A secondary structure on a
lot or tract containing dwelling accommodations,
but excluding kitchen facilities and intended for
the temporary occupancy by guests and not for rent
or permanent occupancy.
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15.
Mille Occupations - A home occupation is an
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occupation customarily carried on in the home
by a member of the occupant's family, without
the employment of additional persons, without
the use of a sign to advertise the occupation,
without offering any commodity for sale on the
premises and which does not create obnoxious
noise or other obnoxious conditions to abutting
residential property such as odor, increased
traffic, light or smoke.
16.
Private Neighborhood Club - Quarters for a
private neighborhood organization made up of
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residents of a specific area and may include
social and recreational facilities for members
only.
17.
Private Stable - An accessory building for
quartering not to exceed four (4) horses on a
farm where set -backs of all property lines are
a distance of one hundred (100) feet.
18.
Community Center (Private) - A central social
and recreational building as part of a housing
project or community unit development, but not
including tennis or swim club facilities.
19.
Signs, Church and Schools - Name plates and
bulletin boards for schools and churches, but
not exceeding eighteen (18) square feet in area
and not of a flashing, intermittent, revolving or
similarly lighted type.
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20. Signs, Real Estate - Temporary signs pertaining to
the sale or rental of property not exceeding
eighteen (18) square feet in area and advertising
property only for a use for which it is legally
zoned.
21. Temporary Field Offices - Portable building or
temporary building used as field office for a
real estate development or construction project
and subject to removal at direction of the
Building Inspector.
22. Bakery - preparing, baking and selling all products
on the premis6s where prepared.
23. Bowling Alley - with air conditioned and
acoustical control of noise.
24. Custom Personal Service - such as tailor, shoe -,
repair, barber, beauty shop, health studio or
travel consultant.
25. . Greenhouse or Nursery - the display of plants
offered for sale must be behind the front yard
line established in the district in which the
nursery or greenhouse is located.
26. Household Appliance Service and Repair - .including
radio and television, but not .involving the use of
equipment which generates noise, odor or electrical
frequencies so as to interfere with the use and
toenjoyment of adjacent property.
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27. Eauipment in Self- Service Laundry and Dry
Cleaning Establishment - to be of similar size
as customarily found in the home and of the
customer self - service type and not a commercial
laundry or cleaning plant.
28. Retail Stores and Shops offering all types of
consumer goods for sale, but excluding the dis-
play and sale in the open outside a building, of
new or used automobiles, heavy machinery, building'
materials, used appliances, furniture or salvage
materials.
29. Signs announcing the name of an establishment or
commodities sold on the premises. In the
neighborhood Retail District, such signs shall be
placed flat against the building on the parapet
and shall not extend more than twenty-four (24)
inches out from the face of the building or such
signs may be erected as freestanding or similar
detached signs, but no such signs shall be of a
flashing, revolving or intermittently lighted type.
Signs not exceeding six (6) square feet in area
identifying the entrance or exit to parking areas
and not projecting into the public right -of -way of
any street, alley or place are permitted.
30. Studio for radio or television, but not including
0 transmitter stations or broadcast towers.
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31. Cleaninq Plant - no direct exterior exhaust
from cleaning plant permitted and dust must be
controlled by either bag or filter and separator
or precipitator so as to eliminate the exhausing
of dust, ordor, fumes or noise outside the plant.
32. Commercial Amusements - Outdoor, such as golf
driving range, pitch and putt course, archery,
miniature golf and similar outdoor activities,
but not including go -cart racing, drag strips
or auto racing.
33. Paint shop including all cooking or baking of
varnish, paint or lacquer.
34. Outside Storage - all exterior display of
furniture appliances or similar material must be
behind the front yard line established in the
District in which the use is located.
35. Any manufacturing processes which do not emit
dust, odor, smoke, gas or fumes beyond the
bounding property lines of the lot or tract upon
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which the use is leeated and which do not
generate noise or vibration at the boundary of
the "I" District which is generally perceptible
in frequency or pressure above the ambient level
of noise in the adjacent areas.
36. The following manufacturing, industrial serving
and storage process are excluded from the per-
mitted use category in the "I" Industrial District.
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which has a history of inundation or is determined to be subject to
flood hazard and to promote the health, safety and general welfare
of the community, portions of certain districts are designated with
a Flood Plain Prefix "FP" and shall be subject to the following
provisions.
Section II. The following uses shall be permitted within
that portion of a district designated with a Flood Plain "FP" Prefix:
(a) Agricultural act.iVit.ies including the ordinary
cultivation of land or legal forms of animal
husbandry.
(b) Off - street parkizrg incidental to any adjacent
main use.
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(a)
(b)
Animal slaughtering or chicken killing
Acid
manufacture
(c)
Ammonia Manufacture
(d)
Carbon Black Manufacture
(e)
Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of parts
manufacture
(f)
Chlorine Manufacture
(g)
Cotton Gin or Compress
(h)
(i)
Explosives storage or manufacture
Glue
(j)
and fertilizer manufacture
Petroleum
and petroleum products refining and
manufacture
(k)
Petroleum tank farm
(1)
Petrochemical plant
(m)
(n)
Quarry, caliche, gravel, sand excavation
Rendering
Plant
(o)
Tanning, curing, treating or storage of skins
or hides
(p)
Any use which due to the possible emission of
excessive smoke, noise, gas, fumes, dust, odor
or vibration or danger of explosion or fire is
presently or in the future is determined a hazard
and subject to special control.
ARTICLE VII
FLOOD PLAIN PREFIX
Section 1. To provide for the appropriate use of land
which has a history of inundation or is determined to be subject to
flood hazard and to promote the health, safety and general welfare
of the community, portions of certain districts are designated with
a Flood Plain Prefix "FP" and shall be subject to the following
provisions.
Section II. The following uses shall be permitted within
that portion of a district designated with a Flood Plain "FP" Prefix:
(a) Agricultural act.iVit.ies including the ordinary
cultivation of land or legal forms of animal
husbandry.
(b) Off - street parkizrg incidental to any adjacent
main use.
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i(c) Electrical substation.
(d) All types of local utilities.
(e) Parks, community centers, playgrounds, public
golf courses.
(f) Private commercial open area amusements such as
golf courses, driving ranges, archery courses and
similar uses when approved by Specific Use Permit.
(g) Private open space as part of a Community Unit
Development.
(h) Heliport or Helistop when approved by Specific
Use Permit.
Section III. No permanent building or structure shall be
• erected in that portion of a district designated with a Flood Plain
"FP" Prefix until and unless such structure has been approved by the
Director of Public Works who will ascertain that such building or
structure would not constitute an encroachment hazard or obstacle
to the movement of flood waters and that such construction would not
endanger the public health and welfare or v &lue and safety of the
property.
Section IV. Any dump, excavation, storage or filling
operation within that portion of a district having a Flood Plain
"FP" Prefix shall be approved in writing by the Director of Public
Works before such operation is begun except that such approval shall
not be required for the .improvement or repair of levees or drainage
facilities related thereto when such are located within a legally
0 constituted district charged with such responsibility.
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Section V. An area may be removed from the Flood Plain
Prefix designation when, by the provision of drainage works, grading,
flood protection, or specific drainage study, it is determined by the
Director of Public Works that the flood hazard has been alleviated.
Removal of the Flood Plain Prefix shall be accomplished by written
notification by the Director of Public Works to the City Planning
Commission setting forth the description of the area from which the
Flood Plain "FP" Prefix should be removed.
ARTICLE VIII
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
Section 1. The purpose of this district is to
accommodate planned associations of uses developed as intergral land
use units such as industrial parks or industrial districts, offices,
commercial or service centers, shopping centers, residential
developments of multiple or mixed housing including attached single-
family dwellings or any appropriate combination of uses which may be
planned, developed and oprated as integral land use units either by a
single owner or a combination of owners.
Section II. The City Council of the City of North
Richland Hills, after public hearing and proper notice to all
affected property owners and after recommendation bythe City Plan
Commission, may authorize the creation of a Planned Development
District on sites of five (5) acres or more to accommodate various
types of developments and conditions of development as listed in the
Use of Land and Building Schedule, Article VI of this Zoning Ordinance.
The uses to be permitted in any specific Planned Development District
shall be enumerated in the ordinance establishing such district and
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shown on the approved plan for development which becomes part of
said ordinance.
Section III In approving the development plan and the
ordinance establishing the Planned Development District, the City
Council shall, after recommendation by the City Plan Comm.iss.ion,
specify such maximum height, floor -area ratio, density and minimum
off - street parking and loading standards within the limits of those
specified in the districts listed for the specific uses .involved
as in appropriate for the development. The City Council shall,
after receiving the recommendation of the City Plan Commission,
establish the standards for yards, signs, building spacing site
coverage, access, screening walls or landscaping, building area
open space, Pedestrianwgys, public or private streets and alleys to be
observed in a Planned Development District and such standards shall be
specified in the ordinance establishing the district.
Section IV. An application for a Planned Development
District shall, if the applicant.desires or the City Plan Commission
of City Council requires, be accompanied by a development schedule
indicating the appropriate date on which construction is expected to
begin and the rate of anticipated development to completion. The
development schedule, if adopted and approved by the City Council,
shall become part of the development plan and shallbe adhered to by
the owner, developer and his successors in interest.
Section V. Annually, where a development schedule has
been required, the Building Inspector shall report to the City
0 Plan Commission the actual development accomplished in the various
Planned Development Districts as compared with the development
schedule.
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Section VI. The City Plan Commission may, if in its
opinion the owner or owners of property are failing or have failed
to meet the approved schedule, initiate proceedings to amend the
Zoning District Map or the Planned Development District by
removing all or part of the Planned Development District from the
Zoning District Map and placing the area involved in another
appropriate zoning district. Upon the recommendation of the City
Plan Commission and for good cause shown by the owner and developer,
the City Council may also extend the development schedule or adopt
such new development schedule as may be indicated by the facts and
conditions of the case.
Section VII. An application for a Planned Development
District shall include and be accompanied by a development plan
which shall become a part of the amending ordinance and shall be
referenced on the Zoning District Map. Changes in the develop-
ment plan shall be considered the same as changes in the Zoning
District Map and shall be processed as required, except that changes
of detail which do not alter the basic relationship of the proposed
development to adjacent property and which do not alter the uses
permitted or increase the density, floor -area ratio, height or
coverage of the site, or which do not decrease the off - street park-
ing ratio, or reduce the yards provided at the boundary of the site
as .indicated on the approved development plan may be authorized by the
Director of Planning and Zoning. Any applicant may appeal the
decision of the Director of Planning and Zoning to the City Plan
Commission for review and decision as to whether an amendment to the
Planned Development District ordinance shall be required.
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Section VIII The Development Plan shall include:
(a) A scale drawing showing any proposed public
or private streets and alleys: building sites
or building lots: any areas proposed for
dedication or reserved as parks, parkways,
playgrounds, utility and garbage easements,
school sites, street widening, street changes:
the points of ingress and engress from existing
public streets on an accurate survey of the
boundary of tract and topography with a contour
interval of not less than five (5) feet, or spot
grades where the relief is limited.
(b) Where multiple types of land use are proposed,
a land use plan delineating the specific areas
to be devoted to various uses shall be required.
(c) Where building complexes are proposed, a site
plan showing the location of each building and
the minimum distra nce between buildings, and
between buildings and the property line, street
line and /or alley line shall be submitted. For
buildings more than one (1) story in height,
except single - family and two - family residences,
elevations and /or perspective drawings may be
required in order that the relationship of the
buildings to adjacent property, open spaces and
to other features of the development plan may be
determined. Such drawings need only indicate
the height, number of floors and exposures for
access, light and air.
(d) A plan indicating the arrangement and provision of
off - street parking and off - street loading where
required. Such a plan may be presented as a
ratio of off - street parking and off - street loading
area to building area when accompanied by a typical
example indicating the feasibility of the arrange-
ment proposed and when the areas where the example
would be applied are dimensioned on the drawing of
the entire site. Any special traffic regulation
facilities proposed or required to assure the safe
function of the circulation plan shall also be show
(e) A designation of the maximum building coverage of
the site shall be indicated upon the site plan.
(f) Screening and landscaping plan shall be required
where such treatment is essential to the proper
arrangement of the development in relation to
adjacent property. Such plan shall, when required,
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include screening walls, ornamental planting,
playgrounds, wooded areas to be retained, lawns
and gardens if such are determined to be necessary
by the City Council.
(g) Any or all of the required features may be
incorporated on a single drawing if such drawing
is clear and capable of evaluation by the
Director of Planning and Zoning and interpretation
by the Building Inspector.
Section IX. Every Planned Development District approved
under the provisions of this ordinance shall be considered as an
amendment to the Zoning Ordinance as applicable to the property
involved. In carrying out the development of a Planned Development
District, the development conditions and the development schedule,
if required, shall be complied with and such conditions as are
specified for the development of a Planned Development District
shall not be construed as conditions precedent to the approval of
the zoning amendment, but shall be construed as conditions precedent
to the granting of a certificate of occupancy and compliance as
required in this ordinance.
Section X. In Planned Development Districts, with
residential uses one family attached dwelling defined as a
dwelling unit on a separately platted lot which is joined to
another dwelling unit on one or more sides by a party wall or
abutting separate wall, served by separate utilities and not
occupied by more than one family shall be permitted. The require-
ments prescribed in the community development may be adopted to
residential developments planned as Planned Developments with variable
housing wherein the types of dwelling structure may vary from those
permitted in the district in which the development is proposed, as
attached single - family or apartments in a single - family area.
One - family attached dwellings need not provide
a side yard except that a minimum required side yard adjacent to a
side street of ten (10) feet shall be provided. A minimum required
side yard of five (5) feet shall be provided at the end of each one
family attached dwelling complex so that the ends of any two
adjacent building complexes shall be at least ten (10) feet apart.
The required side yards for complexes of one- family attached
dwellings may be designated upon a plat approved by the City Plan
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Commission. A complex of attached on- family dwellings shall have
a minimum length of three(3) dwelling units and shall not exceed
three hundred (300) feet in length or width of a cluster module.
A single - family attached dwelling shall:be located
on a platted lot with a minimum width of twenty -five (25) feet,
minimum depth of seventy-five (75) feet and contain a minimum
area of three thousand (31000) square feet. Two off - street
parking spaces, garage or carport shall be provided for each
living unit. A front set -back of twenty (20) feet shall be
provided on the side of the structure facing a street, drive or
common open area.
In Planned Development Districts with residential
uses may also be approved for special apartment designs such as a
fourplex, a structure with four (4) living units, or a sixplex,
a structure with six (6) living units, all of which must comply
with the minimum requirements of the MF, Multiple Family District.
ARTICLE IX
COMMUNITY UNIT DEVELOPMENT
Section I. The purpose of the Community Unit
Development is to encourage reasonable flexibility of design and
arrangement in the organization and development of residential
communities and neighborhoods, provisions are made herein for the
approval of Community Unit Developments in accordance with the
• following standards=
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proposes types of dwelling structures conforming to those permitt-
ed in the district in which the Community Unit is located, the
City of North Richland Hills, after public hearing':and proper
notice to all parties affected and after recommendation by the
City Plan Commission, may authorize the creation of a Community
Unit Development as a Specific Use Permit, setting forth such
appropriate standards by reference to a particular zoning district.
Section III. The overall density in square feet of site
area per dwelling unit or room shall conform to the density prescribed
for the district in which the Community Unit Development is located
or in the case of variable housing to the district referred to by
0 the Planned Development District.
Section IV. The minimum lot depth, lot width and lot
or site area per dwelling unit or room may be reduced not to
exceed twenty -five (25) percent from the standards prescribed for
the district in which the Community Unit Development is located
and as established in the Planned Development District provided
permanent community open space sufficient to compensate for the
reduced individual lot or site sizes and to meet the overall density
requirement of the district is incorporated in the development.
Permanent Community Open Space, parks, school play-
grounds, community centers, golf courses, parkways, water areas or
similar areas which are dedicated to the City of North Richland
Hills or which are created as private open space under a permanent
agreement for maintenance and responsibility, which agreement is
accepted by the City Council and approved by the City Attorney
can :�e established.
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The natue and method of establishing the permanent
open space provided in a Community Unit Development such as park
and Playground sites, wider than required streets and alleys,
community center, parkway, golf course or water area shall be
subject to approval by the City Council after recommendation by
the City Plan Commission.
Section V. The minimum front, side and rear yard
standards prescribed for dwelling structures in the district in
which the Community Unit Development is located can be reduced
not to exceed twenty -five (25) percent. The required side yard
can be placed on one side and the structure built on the side lot
line provided the vall of such building has no openings and no
part of the structure overhangs onto the adjoining lot. The
permitted maximum coverage for the district in which the
Community Unit Development is located can be increased twenty -
five (25) per cent over that prescribed in all single- family
and two - family districts. Multiple- family developments, however,
must observe the maximum coverage specified in that use district.
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ARTICLE X
SPECIAL USE PERMIT
S, ection 1. Procedure:
The City Council may, after public hearing and
recommendation by the City Plan Commission, and after conducting
a public hearing as is required for all amendments to the Zoning
Ordinance in accordance with the provision of the Article on
Changes and Amendments, authorize for specific parcels of land
the issuance of a Specific Use Permit in accordance with the
provisions of the Use Schedule, Article VI,.in those districts
where it is indicated that a Specific Use Permit for a specific
type use may be approved.
The designation of a Specific Use Permit as possible
on the Use Schedule, Article VI, in a given district does not
constitute an authorization or an assurance that such use will
be permitted. Rather, each Specific Use Permit application shall
le evaluated as to its probable effect on the adjacent property and
the community welfare and may be approved or denied as the findings
indic &te appropriate.
Section II. Requirements;
In considering and determining its recommendation
in the City Council relative to any application for a Specific Use
Permit, the City Plan Commission may require that the applicant
furnish plans and data concerning the operation, location, function
and characteristics of any use of land or building proposed.
The City Plan Commission may recommend to the City
Council that certain safeguards and conditions concerning setbacks,
ingress and egress, off - street parking and loading arrangement,
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The City Council may in the .interest of the public
welfare and to assure compliance with the .intent of this ordinance,
require such development standards and operational conditions and
safeguards as are indicated to be important to the welfare and
protection of adjacent property and the community as a whole.
A site plan Setting forth the conditions specified
may be required of the applicant and such plan when accepted shall
be made part of the amending ordinance.
A Specific Use Permit approved under the i3rovisions
of this ordinance shall be considered as an amendment to the
zoning ordinance as applicable to the property .involved. Any of
the conditions contained in a Specific Use Permit shall not be
construed as conditions precedent to the approval of the zoning
amendment, but shall be considered as conditions precedent to the
granting of a certificate of occupancy and compliance for the
specific use provided for.
Section III. Mobile Home Park or Subdivision
Requirements:
A. Development Plana Prior to submission of
this request to the City Council for public
hearing, a Development Plan shall be submitted
and approved by the City Plan Commission and
shall be attached to and made a part of the
ordinance. Two types of mobile home develop-
ments are provided for by this Specific Use
Permit as follows:
(1) A mobile home park or trailer court
as a unified development of mobile
home sites, plats, or transient stands
arranged on a large tract under single
ownership.
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(2) A mobile home subdivision shown on
a subdivision plat approved by the
City Plan Commission and filed for
record designed specifically for
mobile home development.
B. Subdivision: Prior to submission of this request
to the City Council for public hearing, a pre-
liminary plat of the entire area shall be sub-
mitted and approved by the City Plan Commission.
Prior to issuance of any building permit with-
in the area covered by this Specific Use Permit,
a final subdivision plat of the entire area shall
be filed for record in the office of the County
Clerk, Tarrant County, Texas.
C. Uses: Mobile Homes recreational building,
utility building, office building and carport
shall be the only uses permitted within the
area of this Specific Use Permit.
D. Lot Area: There shall be a minimum lot area of
2100 square feet for each transient stand, and a
minimum lot area of forty -five hundred (4500)
square feet for each subdivided lot.
E. Lot Width: There shall be a minimum lot width
of thirty -five (35 ) feet for a transient stand
and a minimum of forty -five (45) feet for a
subdivided lot.
F. Lot Depth: There shall be a minimum lot depth
of sixty (60) feet for a transient stand and
a minimum of ninety (90) feet for a subdivided
G. Seth: The regulations with regard to front
yard, side yard and rear yards shall be as
follows:
(1) Front Yard:
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No mobile home or house trailer shall be
placed, located or erected nearer than
thirty (30) feet to any dedicated street
lot.
or highway right -of -way, nor shall any
such mobile home or house trailer unit be
located nearer than twenty (20) feet to'
any private drive used for access, circu-
lation or service to the plot, lot or tract
or stand upon which a mobile home or house
trailer is located.
• (2) Side Yard:
No mobile home or house trailer shall
be located nearer than ten (10) feet
to the side line of any lot, plat,
tract or stand. One side yard may be
reduced to five (5) feet provided the
other side yard is increased to fifteen
(15) feet.
(3) Rear Yard:
No mobile home or house trailer shall
be located nearer than ten (10) feet
to the rear line of any lot, plot,
tract or stand.
Regardless of the above standards, no mobile home,
house trailer, or mobile home lot, tract, plot
or stan,., shall be placed, located or erected nearer
than twenty (20) feet to any boundary line of this
Specific Use Permit.
No carport, garage, storage building, office or
caretaker's dwelling, laundry house or other
• permitted structure may be 1crzated nearer than
ten (10) feet to any side or rear line of a plot
lot, tract or stand when such structures are
located within the rear twenty -five (25) percent
of the trailer lot, plot or tract. Such struc-
tures shall also be subject to the front yard
requirements above.
H. Special Development Standards; The developer shall
provide sanitation, fire protection and utility
service to each lot, tract, plot or stand in
accordance with the City of North Richland Hills
Health Department requirements, or any ordinance
or code of the City of North Richland Hills regula-
ting sanitation, fire protection and utility ser-
vice to mobile home or house trailer developments.
All utilities shall be .installed underground.
Ingress and egress to "the property shall be pro-
vided in accordance with requirements of the City
of North Richland Hills.
Drainage and garbage collection rights -of -way,
fire lanes and utility easements shall be pro-
vided as required by the City of North Richland
Hills.
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• I. Playground.Area: Open playground space shall be
provided at a ratio of five hundred (500) square
feet for each of the first twenty (20) units and
two hundred and fifty (250) square feet for all
additional units.
J. Coverage: The maximum area of the lot or transient
stand which may be covered by the main building
and all accessory buildings shall not exceed twenty
(20) percent.
K. Height: No mobile home or house trailer, carport,
garage, storage building, office or caretaker's
dwelling, laundry house or other permitted structure
shall exceed a height of two (2) stories-.
L. Parking: Off - Street parking shall be provided at a
a ration of two (2) spaces for each lot, tract or
stand.
M. Paving: All driveways, entrances, service drives
and parking areas shall have a minimum surfacing
of six (6) inches compacted gravel and two (2)
coats of penetration asphalt. The developer shall
bear the total cost and maintenance of all such
improvements, including curb and drainage structures
that may be necessary.
N. Siqns: No signs other than one pertaining to the
occupancy of the premises shall be permitted, and
such sign shall be of the ground, wall or pole
type. Such sign shall not exceed a maximum area
of ninety -six (96) square feet for one face. If
the sign has more than one face, the maximum area
of all faces shall not exceed one hundred ninety -
two (192) square feet. Such sign shall not exceed
a maximum height of twenty (20) feet and shall be set-
ack from all property lines a distance of twenty-five
25) feet. No sign shall be of the flashing, rotating
intermittently lighted type. Only one sign shall be
permitted within the area covered by this ordinance.
0. Screenina: A solid screening wall (the surface of
which does not contain openings more than forty
(40) square inches in each one square foot of surface)
with a minimum height of six (6) feet shall be pro-
vided along all property lines not exposed to a
dedicated street or highway, as indicated on the
Development Plan. Garbage storage areas shall be
visually screened by a six (6) foot hJgh solid
fence except when one side is adjacent to an alley
or easement used for garbage pick -up service, no
screening fence shall be required on that side.
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P. Water and Sewer: Each transient stand or sub-
divided lot shall be served by water and sanitary
sewer. Engineering plans for water and sanitary
sewer shall be approved by the City Water Works
and all requirements of the Water Department and
Health Department of the State of Texas shall be
complied with.
Section IV. Minimum Parking Requirements for
Specific Uses
Listed in Article VI.
These requirements can be increased by
the City Council if deemed in the public interest and safety in any
particular Specific Use Permit.
One and Two Family
Dwelling Units
Multiple Family Dwelling
Three (3) or more units
College or Dramatic
School
Country Club and Private
Club
Convent and Monestery
Day Camp or Day Nursery
Homes - Alcoholic, etc.
Hospitals
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Two (2) spaces per unit
Two (2) spaces per unit
One (1) space for each
classroom plus one (1)
space for each four (4)
day students.
One (1) for each four (4)
members
One (1) for each two (2)
employees
One (1) for each ten (10)
pupils
One (1) space for every
two (2) employees or atten-
dents.
One (1) for each two (2)
beds.
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Commercial Amusements
Service Stations
Room and Boarding House
Insitutions of Religious
nautre, etc.
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One (1) for each residence
unit
One (1) for each two (2)
people accommodated
Twelve (12 ) cars
One (1) for each two (2)
guests
One (1) for each two (2)
employees plus one (1)
for every ten (10) residents'
ARTICLE XI
"AG" AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT
Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI -
Use of Land and Buildings Schedule.
Section II. Height Regulations:
1. Front Yard
A. There shall be a front yard having
a minimum depth of not less than fifty
(50) feet, except as hereinafter pro-
vided in the Article on Exceptions and
Variances.
B. Where lots have double frontage running
through from one street to another, the
required front yard shall be provided on
both streets.
2. Side Yard
There shall be two side yards, one on each side
of the building having a combined width of not
less than twenty (20) per cent of the lot width,
provided that in no case shall one side yard be
less than five (5)' „feet. The side yard of corner
lots, adjacent to a side street, shall not be
less than ten (10) feet. The side yard of corner
lots having adjoining structures fronting on two
adjacent property lines shall have a fifty (50)
foot side yard.
3. Rear Yard
There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not
less than twenty (20) per cent of the lot depth.
4. Area of the Lot
The minimum area of the lot shall be two (2)
acres; however, a lot having an area of less
than two (2) acres that was of record prior to
passage of this ordinance may be used for any use
permitted in this District.
5. Width of Lot
The minimum width of the lot shall be one hundred
and fifty (150) feet.
The above area regulations apply to the "AG”
Argicultural District and do not apply to lots
which may be two (2) acres or larger in other districts.
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6. Depth of Lot
The minimum depth of the lot shall be two
hundred (200) feet.
7. Parking_ Regulations
Off - street parking space shall be provided on the'
lots to accommodate two (2) cars for each dwelling
unit; however, no supporting member of any garage,
carport or other automobile storage structure shall
be located within the required front yard. Places
of public assembly shall provide off - street parking
at the ratio of one (1) space for each five seats.
8. Area of Dwelling
Eight hundred (800) square feet shall be the
minimum living area of the dwelling unit.
9. Maximum Coverage
The main building and accessory building shall
not cover more than ten (10) per cent of the lot
area.
ARTICLE XII
1 -F -12 SINGLE - FAMILY DISTRICT
Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI -
Use of Land and Buildings Schedule.
Section II. Height Regulations:
No building shall exceed two and one -half (2')
stories in height.
Section III. Area Regulations:
1. Front Yard`
A. There shall be a front yard having
a minimum depth of not less than
thirty (30) feet, except as hereinafter
provided in the Article on Exceptions
and Variances.
B. Where lots have double frontage running
through from one street to another, the
required front yard shall be provided on
both streets.
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2 . Side Yard
There shall be a side yard on each side of the build-
ing having a width of not less than six (6) feet
width as measured from the nearest exterior side
wall of the building to the nearest property line.
The side yard of corner lots adjacent to a side
street shall be not more than fifteen (15) feet.
The side yard of corner lots having adjoining
structures fronting on two adjacent property lines'
shall have a side yard of not less than thirty (30)
feet.
3. Rear Yard
There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not
less than twenty (20) per cent of the lot depth.
4. Area of the Lot
The minimum area of the lot shall be twelve
thousand (12,000) square feet; however, a lot
having an area of less than twelve thousand (12,000)
square feet that was of record prior to passage of
this ordinance may be used for any use permitted in
this District.
5. Width of Lot
The minimum width of the lot shall be eighty (80)
feet.
The above area regulations apply to the 1 -F -12
Single - Family District and do not apply to lots
which may be twelve thousand (12,000) square feet
or larger in other districts.
6. Depth of Lot
The minimum depth of the lot shall be one hundred
ten (110) feet.
7. Parking Regulations
Off - street parking space shall be provided on the
lots to accommodate two (2) cars for each dwelling
unit; however, no supporting member of any garage,
carport or other automobile storage structure shall
be located within the required front yard. Places
of public assembly shall provide off - street parking
at the ratio of one (1) space for each five seats.
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Fourteen hundred (1,400) square feet shall be the
minimum living area of the dwelling unit.
9. Maximum Coverage
The main building and accessory building shall not
cover more than thirty (30) percent of the lot area.
ARTICLE XIII
1 -F -9 SINGLE - FAMILY DISTRICT
Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI -
Use of Land and Buildings Schedule.
Section II_ Height Regulations:
No building shall exceed two and one -half (2�)
stories in height.
Section III. Area Regulations
1. Front Yard
A. There shall be a front yard having
a minimum depth of not less than
twenty -five (25) feet, except as
hereinafter provided in the Article
on Exceptions and Variances.
B. Where lots have double frontage running
through from one street to another, the
required front yard shall be provided
on both streets.
2. Side Yard
There shall be a side yard on each side of the
building having a width of not less than six (6)
feet width as measured fron the nearest exterior
side wall of the building to the nearest property
line. The side yard of corner lots adjacent to a
side street shall be not more than fifteen (15)
feet. The side yard of corner lots having adjoin-
ing structures fronting on two adjacent property
lines shall have a twenty -five (25) foot side yard.
3. Rear Yard
There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not
less than twenty (20) per cent of the lot depth.
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4. Area of the Lot
The minimum area of the lot shall be nine thousand
(9,000) square feet; however, a lot having an area
of less than nine thousand (9,000) square feet that
was of record prior to passage of this ordinance,
may be used for any use permitted in this District.
5. Width of Lot
The minimum width of the lot shall be seventh (70)
feet.
The above area regulations apply to the 1 -F -9
District and do not apply to lots which may be
nine thousand (9,000) square feet or larger in
other districts.
6. Depth of Lot
The minimum depth of the lot shall be one hundred
and ten (110) feet.
• 7. Parking Regulations
Off - street parking space shall be provided on the lot
to accommodate two -(2) cars for each dwelling unit;
however, no supporting member of any garage, carport
or other automobile storage structure shall be
located within the required front yard. Places
of public assembly shall provide off - street parking
at the ratio of one (1) space for each five seats.
8. Area of Dwellinn
Twelve hundred (1,200) square feet shall be the
minimum living area of the dwelling unit.
9. Maximum Coverage
The main building and accessory building shall not
cover more than thirty-five (35) per cent of the
lot area.
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ARTICLE XIV
1 -F -7 SINGLE - FAMILY DISTRICT
4 Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI-
Use of Land and Building Schedule.
Section II. Height Regulations: No building shall
exceed two and one -half (2') stories in height.
Section III. Area Regulations:
1. Front Yard
A. There shall be a front yard having a
minimum depth of not less than twenty
five (25) feet, except as hereinafter
provided in the Article on Exceptions
and Variances.
B. Where lots have double frontage running
through from one street to another, the
required front yard shall be provided on
both streets.
2. Side Yard
There shall be a side yard on each side
of the building having a width of not
less than six ( 6 ) feet width as measured"
from the nearest exterior side wall of
the building to the nearest property line.
The side yard of corner lots adjacent to
a side street shall be not more than fif-
teen (15 ) feet. The side yard of corner
lots having adjoining structures fronting
on two adjacent property lines shall have
a twenty five (25) foot side yard.`
3. Rear Yard
There shall be a rear yard having a depth
of not less than twenty (20) per cent of
the lot depth.
4. Area of the Lot
The minimum area of the lot shall be
seven thousand (7,000) square feet; how-
ever, a lot having an area of less than
seven thousand (7,000) square feet that
was of record prior to passage of this
ordinance, may be used for any use per-
mitted in this District.
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The minimum width of the lot shall be sixty
(60) feet.
The above area regulations apply to the 1 -F -7
Single- Family District and do not apply to lots
which may be seven thousand (7,000) square feet or larger
in other Districts.
6. Depth of Lot
The minimum depth of the lot shall be one hundred
(100) feet.
7. Parking Regulations
Off - street parking space shall be provided on the
lot to accommodate two (2) cars for each dwelling
unit; however, no supporting member of any garage,
carport or other automobile storage structure shall
be located within the required front yard. Places
of public assembly shall provide off - street parking
at the ratio of one (1) space for each five seats.
8, Area of Dwelling
One thousand (1,000) square feet shall be the
minimum living area of the dwelling unit.
9. Maximum Coverage
The main building and accessory building shall not
cover more than thirty -five (35) per cent of the
lot area.
ARTICLE XV
2 -F -9 TWO- FAMILY DISTRICT
Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI - Use of
Land and Buildings Schedule.
Section II. Height Regulations: No building shall
exceed two and one half (233) stories in height.
Section III. Area Regulations:
1. Front Yard
A. There shall be a front yard having a minimum
depth of not less than twenty-five (25) feet
except as hereinafter provided in the Article
on Exceptions and Variances.
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B. Where lots have double frontage running
through from one street to another, the
required front yard shall be provided on
both streets.
2. Side Yard
There shall be a side yard on each side of the
building having a width of not less than six (6)
feet width as measured from the nearest exterior
side wall of the building to the nearest property
line. The side yard of corner lots adjacent to
a side street shall be not more than fifteen (15)
feet. The side yard of corner lots having
adjoining structures fronting on two adjacent
property lines shall have a twenty -five (25) foot
side yard.
3. Rear Yard
There shall be a rear yard having a depth of not
less than twenty (20) per cent of the lot depth.
4. Area of the Lot
The minimum area of the lot shall be nine thousand
(9,000) square feet; however, a lot having an area
of less than nine thousand (9,000) square feet that
was of record prior to passage of this ordinance,
may be used for any use permitted in this District.
5. Width of Lot
The minimum width of the lot shall be seventy (70)
feet.
The above area regulations apply to the 2 -F -9
District and do not apply to lots which may be nine
thousand (9,000) square feet or larger in other
districts.
6. Depth of Lot
The minimum depth of the lot shall be one hundred
(100) feet.
7. Parking Regulations
Off- street parking space shall be provided on the
lot to accommodate two (2) cars for each living unit;
however, no supporting member of any garage, carport
or other automobile storage structure shall be
located within the required front yard. Places of
public assembly shall provide off - street parking at
the ratio of one (1) space for each five seats.
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8. Area of Dwelling
One thousand (11000) square feet shall be the
minimum living area in each Living unit.
9. Maximum Coverage
The main building and accessory building shall
not cover more than forty -five (45) per cent of
the lot area.
ARTICLE XVI
MF MULTIPLE - FAMILY DWELLING DISTRICT
Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI - Use of Land
and Buildings Schedule.
it Section II. Height Regulations: No building used for
�< single family, two - family or multiple - family purposes shall exceed
three (3) stories in height.
Section III. Area Regulations:
d 1. Front Yard
There shall be a front yard having a minimum depth
of twenty -five (25) feet except where circular or
similar entrance drives across the lot in front of
the main building are used, in which event the
0 minimum front yard depth shall be thirty -five (35)
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00 area shall be located closer to the front property
line than twenty -five (25) feet.
2. Side Yards
A. The side yard requirements for single -
farhily or two- family uses are the same
as in the 2 -F -9 Two - Family District
regulations.
B. In multiple - family development there should
be a side yard on each side of the lot
having a minimum dimension as follows:
(1) Where multiple family dwellings
or housing projects are arranged
on a lot where the long dimension
of any building is parallel to the
side lot line, or where the long
dimension of such building is parallel
to another building in a project, a
side yard of fifteen (15) feet shall
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be provided on each side of each
building so that the walls of buildings
arranged as parallel structures shall
be a minimum of thirty (30) feet
apart, and no balcony or canopy
shall extend into such side yard or
space for a distance greater than
five (5) feet;
(2) For multiple family dwellings which
are arranged with the long dimension
of the building parallel to the
front lot line and where the building
end adjacent and parallel to the side
lot line does not exceed thirty -five
(35) feet in width, a minimum side yard
of ten (10 ) feet shall be provided;
(3) Where the end of a multiple family
dwelling or building does not exceed
thirty -five (35) feet in width and
is located opposite another building
end, building side or exposed wall
face, and where such building ends
or wall faces do not contain openings
for light, air or access in the areas
which are opposite, such building ends
or wall faces may be placed a minimum
distance of ten (10) feet apart.
Where openings for light, air or
access exist in both building ends or
wall faces arranged as described above,
the minimum distance between such ends
shall be twenty (20) feet. Where
openings for light, air or access exist
in only one of the building ends of
wall faces arranged as described above,
the minimum distance between such
ends or wall faces shall be fifteen
(15) feet;
(4) A side yard on a corner lot adjacent
to a street shall not be less than
fifteen (15) feet, and no balcony or
porch or any portion of the building
may extend into such required side
yard except that a roof may overhang
such side yard not to exceed five (5)
feet.
3. Rear Yard
The rear yard requirements for single- family or
two - family uses are the same as in the Two- Family
District 2 -F -9 regulations.
For multiple family development the minimum rear
yard requirements shall be as follows:
No main building may be constructed nearer
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than fifteen (15) feet to the rear property
line. The main building and all accessory
buildings shall not cover more than fifty
( 50 ) per cent of that portion of the lot
lying to the rear of a line erected joining
the midpoints of the opposite side lot line.
Carports or other detached accessory buildings
shall not be located closer than ten (10)
feet to the main building, nor closer than
five (5) feet to any side street. No de-
tached accessory building may be located
closer than five (5) feet to any rear lot
line except when carports, garages or other
automobile storage structures or parking
spaces are arranged so as to be entered
from and face directly upon an alley or rear
or side easement, such automobile storage
structure or space shall be located not
closer than fifteen (15) feet to the center
line of such alley or easement. Any car-
port or detached accessory building located
in the front fifty (50) per cent of the lot
shall observe the same side yard as the
main building. No detached accessory
building shall be used as a place of
habitation.
4. Interior Yards or Courts
. When an apartment building or buildings are
erected so as to create inner courts or outer
courts, the faces of all opposite walls in
such courts shall be a minimum distance of
thirty (30) feet apart, and no balcony or canopy
shall extend into such area for a distance greater
than five (5) feet.
5. Area of the lot
The minimum lot area requirements for one- family
and two - family uses shall be the same as in the
Two - Family District 2F -9 regulations.
In multiple family development fifteen hundred
(1,500) square feet of site shall be provided for
each living unit.
6. Width of Lot
The minimum width of the lot shall be seventy (70)
feet.
7. Depth of Lot
The minimum depth of the lot shall be one hundred
(100) feet.
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8. Parkinq Requirements
For single - family and two - family uses, off - street
parking shall be provided at the minimum ratio of
two (2) spaces for each living unit.
In multiple family development, paved off - street
parking shall be provided at a ratio of one and
one -half (1 -1/2) spaces for multiple family
dwellings, and no such off - street parking shall
be located within the required front yard nor
within four (4) feet of any building when such
off - street parking is located in the side yard.
Whenever off - street parking is located within the
side yard, a curb or equivalent barrier shall be
placed so as to prevent any vehicle from parking
within a minimum distance of four (4) feet from
the building.
9. Area of Dwelling or Living Unit
For single- family and two - family uses, the minimum
living area shall be one thousand (1,000) square
feet. In multiple family developments the average
of all living units within one building or building
complex shall not be less than seven hundred fifty
(750) square feet per unit.
10. Maximum Coverage
The main building and accessory building shall not
cover more than sixty (60) per cent of the lot area.
11. Paving
All driveways, entrances and parking areas shall
have a minimum surfacing of a six (6) inch compacted
gravel and two coats of penetration asphalt. The
developer shall bear the total cost and maintenance
of all such .improvements, including curb and drainage
structures that may be necessary.
12. Signs
A single name plate or sign for an apartment
building or housing project shall be permitted
when such sign is affixed flat against the building
and does not exceed an area of forty (40) square
feet, and when the sign is not of a flashing, inter-
mittently lighted, revolving or similarly lighted
type.
13. Conversion
Residential structures shall not be permitted to be
changed to a use of less restricted classification
except on the basis of plans approved by the City
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Plan Commission and City Council. Such plans shall
show existing and proposed construction and /or
remodeling, the use which is intended, the location
of the building on the lot, the required off - street
parking, and such other features as may be required
by ordinance.
14. Garbage Storage Areas
Garbage storage areas shall be visually screened
by a eight (8) inch thick, six (6) foot high solid
fence on all sides except when one side is adjacent
to an alley or easement used for garbage pickup
service no screening fence shall be required on that
side.
15. Fire Lanes
Fire lanes shall be provided in accordance with
the requirements of the Fire Marshall.
16. Exterior Fire Resistant Construction
All main buildings hall be of exterior fire resis-
tant construction. (By definition, exterior fire
resistant construction having at least seventy -
five (75) per cent of the exterior walls constructed
of brick, stone, concrete block or other masonry, or
materials of equal characteristics in accordance with
40 the building code of the City of North Richland Hills.)
ARTICLE XVII
NR NEIGHBORHOOD RETAIL DISTRICT
Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI - Use of Land
and Building Schedule.
Section II. Height Requlations: No building shall exceed
two (2) stories in height.
Section III. Area Regulations:
1. Front Yard
A. There shall be a front yard having a
minimum depth of not less than twenty -five
(25 ) feet except as hereinafter provided
in the section on variances and exceptions.
Parking is permitted within this required
front yard.
B. Where lots have double frontage, running
through from one street to another, the
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required front yard shall be provided on
both streets.
2. Side Yards
No side yard shall be required for a retail use
except:
A. On a corner lot, a side yard of fifteen
(15) feet shall be required on the side
street.
B. For a two - family dwelling or a multiple -
family dwelling use, a side yard shall be
required on each side of the lot as in the
Multiple- Family Dwelling District.
C. On the side of a lot in an NR District
adjoining a single- family, two - family
or a multiple- family district, not separated
by a street or alley, there shall be a side
yard the same as required in the adjoining
district. No side yard shall be required
where the NR District is separated from a
residential district by an alley. The mini-
mum width of the side yard shall be ten
(10) feet or ten (10) per cent of the average
width of the lot, whichever is smaller, but
a side yard shall not be less than six (6)
feet. The side yard adjacent to a side
street shall not be less than fifteen (15) feet.
3. Rear Yard
No rear yard shall be required for a retail use
except where a lot adjoins a single - family, two -
family or a multiple - family district, and is not
separated therefrom by an alley in which event there
shall be a rear yard on the rear of the lot equal to
twenty (20) percent of the depth of the lot. Where
a lot or any portion of a lot is used for single -
family dwelling, two - family or multiple- family use,
there shall be a rear yard on the rear of the lot
equal to twenty (20) per cent of the depth of the lot.
4. Area of the Lot
The minimum lot area requirements for two - family, or
miltiple - family dwellings shall be the same as those
for the MF Multiple- Family Dwelling District. Where
dwelling facilities are provided above or behind
stores, the lot area requirements shall be the same
as those required for multiple- family dwellings in
the MF Multiple - Family Dwelling District.
5. Width of the Lot
The minimum width of the lot shall be seventy (70)
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feet for two - family or multiple - family use. For
other uses, the width may be less than sixty (60)
feet.
0 6. Depth of the Lot
The minimum depth of the lot for two - family or
multiple- family uses shall be one hundred (100)
feet. No minimum depth shall be required for
business uses.
7. Maximum Coverage
The main building and accessory building shall not
occupy more than thirty (30) per cent of the lot area.
8. Miscellaneous Regulations
Wherever a NR District adjoins a single - family, two -
family or multiple- family district and is not
separated by a street, a six (6) foot solid sight
bearing fence or better shall be constructed and
maintained along or within one (1) foot of the
boundary or property line of said NR District to
serve as permanent screening. All outside lighting
features shall be placed and reflected in such a
manner so as not to create a glare or sheen onto the
adjacent property as to create annoyance, nuisance
or hazards.
Failure to comply with these requirements shall
constitute a violation of the zoning ordinance
and be subject to the penalties that are herein-
after provided.
9. Exterior Fire Resistant Construction
All main buildings shall be of exterior fire
resistant construction. (By definition, exterior
fire resistant construction is construction having
at least seventy -five ( 75 ) per cent of the exterior
walls constructed of brick, stone, concrete block
or other masonry or materials of equal character-
istics in accordance with the building code of the
City of North Richland Hills.)
10. Parking Regulations
A. The parking regulations for two - family
and multiple family dwellings are the same
as those in the MF Multiple - Dwelling
District regulations.
B. All Neighborhood Retail uses shall provide
off - street parking at the ratio of one (1)
off - street parking space for each two hund-
red (200) square feet of floor area.
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C. For a fraternity or sorority house off -
street parking shall be provided at the
minimum ratio of one (1) space for each
three (3) residents.
D. Professional Offices and Business Offices,
other than Medical or Dental Clinics, Shall
provide off - street parking space at a ratio
of one (1) parking space for each three
hundred (300) square feet of floor area.
E. Establishments for the sale and consumption
on the premises of food and refreshments
shall provide off - street parking space at
ratio of one (1) space for each one hundred
and fifty (150) square feet of floor area.
F. Retail, office'and service buildings shall
provide and maintain off - street facilities
for the loading and unloading of merchandise
and goods within the building or on the lot
adjacent to a public alley or private service
drive to facilitate the movement of traffic
on the public streets. Such space shall
consist of a minimum area then ten (10) feet
by twenty -five (25) feet for each twenty
thousand (201000) square feet of floor space
or fraction therof in excess of three
thousand (3,000) square feet in the building
or on the lot used for retail, storage or
service purposes.
ARTICLE XVIII
LR LOCAL RETAIL DISTRICT
Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI - Use of
Land and Building Schedule.
Section II. Height Regulations: No building shall
exceed two and one -half (2 -1/2) stories in height.
Section III. Area Regulations:
1. Front Yard
A. There shall be a front yard having a minimum
depth of not less than twenty -five (25) feet
except as hereinafter provided in the section
on variances and exceptions. Parking is per-
mitted within this required front yard.
B. Where lots have double frontage, running
through from one street to another, the
required front yard shall be provided on
both streets.
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2. Side Yards
No side yard shall be required for a retail use
except:
A. On a corner lot, a side yard of ten (10)
feet shall be required on the side street.
B. For a multiple - family dwelling use, a side
yard shall be required on each side of the
lot as in the multiple - family dwelling
district.
C. On the side of a lot in an LR District
adjoining a multiple- family district there
shall be a side yard. No side yard shall
be required where the LR District is
separated from a residential district by
an alley. The minimum width of the side
yard shall be ten (10) feet or ten (10)
per cent of the average width of the .lot,
whichever is smaller, but a side yard shall
not be less than five (5) feet. The side
yard adjacent to a side street shall not be
less than ten (10) feet.
3. Rear Yard
No rear yard shall be required for a retail use
except where a lot adjoins a multiple family
district, and is not separated therefrom by an
alley in which event there shall be a rear yard
on the rear of the lot equal to twenty (20) per
cent of the depth of the lot. Where a lot or any
portion of a lot is used for multiple- family use,
there shall be a rear yard on the rear of the lot
equal to twenty (20) per cent of the depth of the lot.
4. Area of the Lot
The minimum lot area requirements for multiple
family dwellings shall be the same as those for
the MF Multiple- Family Dwelling District. Where
dwelling facilities are provided above or behind
stores, the lot area requirements shall be the
same as those required for multiple - family dwellings
in the MF Multiple - Family Dwelling District.
5. Width of the Lot
The minimum width of the lot shall be seventy (70)
feet for multiple- family use. For other uses, the
width may be less than sixty (60) feet.
6. Depth of the Lot
The minimum depth of the lot for multiple- family
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uses shall be one hundred (100) feet. No
minimum depth shall be required for business
uses.
All main buildings shall be of exterior fire
resistant construction. (By definition, exterior
fire resistant construction is construction having
at least seventy -five (75) per cent of the exterior
walls constructed of brick, stone, concrete block
or other masonry, or materials of equal character-
istics in accordance with the building code of the
City of North Richland Hills.)
10. Parking Regulations
7. Maximum Coverage
family dwellings are the same as those
The main building and accessory building shall
not occupy more than thirty (30) per cent of
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the lot area.
8. Miscellaneous Regulations
Wherever a LR District adjoins a multiple- family
district and is not separated by a street, a six
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(6) foot solid sight bearing fence or better
shall be constructed and maintained along or
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one (1) foot of the boundary or property
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line of said LR District of serve as permanent
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screening. All outside lighting features shall
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be placed and reflected in such a mannner so as
not to create a glare or sheen onto the adjacent
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property as to create annoyance, nuisance, or
hazards.
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Failure to comply with these requirements shall
constitute a violation of the Zoning Ordinance
and shall be subject to the penalties that are
hereinafter provided.
9. Exterior Fire Resistant Construction
All main buildings shall be of exterior fire
resistant construction. (By definition, exterior
fire resistant construction is construction having
at least seventy -five (75) per cent of the exterior
walls constructed of brick, stone, concrete block
or other masonry, or materials of equal character-
istics in accordance with the building code of the
City of North Richland Hills.)
10. Parking Regulations
A. The parking regulations for multiple -
family dwellings are the same as those
in the Multiple - family District regulations.
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B. Medical or Dental clinics shall provide off -
street parking spaces at the ratio of one (1)
space for each two hundred (200) square feet of
floor area.
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other than Medical or Dental Clinics, shall
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provide off - street parking space at a ratio
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of one (1) parking space for each three
hundred (300) square feet of floor area.
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D. Establishments for the sale and con-
sumption on the premises of food or
refreshments shall provide off - street
parking space at a ratio of one (1)
space for each one hundred fifty (150)
square feet of floor area.
E. Furniture stores shall provide off - street
parking at the ratio of one (1) space for
each one thousand (1,000) square feet of
floor area.
F. Hospital (General Acute Care) shall provide
off - street parking at the ratio of one (1)
space for each two (2) beds.
G. Hospital (Clinic Care) shall provide off -
street parking at the ratio of one (1)
space for each two (2) employees or attendents.
H. Institutions of Religious or Philanthropic
Nature shall provide off - street parking at
the ratio of one (1) space for each two (2)
employees plus one (1) space for every ten
(10) residents.
I. Gasoline Service Station shall provide off -
street parking space for a minimum of twelve
(12) cars.
J. Commercial Amusement (Indoors) shall provide
off - street parking at the ratio of one (1)
space for each two (2) people accommodated.
K. Boarding and Rooming Houses shall provide
off - street parking space at the ratio of
one (1) space for each two (2) guests.
L. Retail, office and service buildings shall
provide and maintain off - street facilities for
the loading and unloading of merchandise
and goods within the building or on the lot
adjacent to a public alley or private service
drive to facilitate the movement of traffic
on the public streets. Such space shall
consist of a minimum area ten (10) feet by
twenty -five (25) feet for each twenty
thousand (20,000) square feet of floor
space or fraction therof in excess of three
thousand (3,000) square feet in the building
or on the lot used for retail, storage or
service purposes.
M. Any building hereafter erected, altered
or converted for local retail or personal
service use shall provide off - street parking
space at the following ratio:
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(1) Buildings having less than five
thousand (5,000) square feet of
floor area shall provide one (1)
space for each five hundred (500)
square feet of ground floor
building area.
(2) Buildings having over five thousand
(5,000) square feet, but not more
than ten thousand (10,000) square
feet of ground floor area shall
provide ten (10) spaces plus one (1)
space for each three hundred thirty -
three ( 333 ) feet of ground floor
area in excess of five thousand
(5,000) square feet.
(3) Buildings having over ten thousand
(10,000) square feet of ground floor
area shall provide twenty-five (25)
parking spaces plus one (1) space
for each two hundred (200) square
feet of ground floor area in excess
of ten thousand (10,000) square feet.
(4) Buildings having local retail or
professional office uses on floors
above the ground floor shall provide
• off - street parking spaces at a radio
of one (1) space for each three
hundred (300) square feet of floor
area above the ground floor.
(5) Where more than one building is
located upon a lot, the parking
requirements shall be based upon the
total floor area of all such structures.
ARTICLE XIX
"C" COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
Section I. Permitted Uses: See Article VI - Use of
Land and Building Schedule.
Section II. Height Regulations: No building shall
exceed six (6) standard stories in hei:zht unless set -back from all
lot lines or any required yard lines one (1) foot for each foot
above such height limit. When a building is located on a lot
• adjoining a single - family, two - family, or multiple- family
district, it shall not exceed three (3) standard stories in height
unless it is set -back one (1) foot from all required yard lines for
for each one (1) foot of additional height above such height limit.
2. Side Yard
No side yard shall be required for a retail,
commercial or manufacturing use except:
Section III.
Area Regulations:
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district and not separated therefrom by
Front
Yard
ten (10) feet or ten (10) per cent of the
average width of the lot, whichever is
No front yard shall be required for any business
use unless:
story in height.
A.
The street is less than sixty (60) feet in
multiple - family dwelling use, a side
width, in which case a manufacturing or
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commercial structure shall be placed not
the lot. The minimum width of the side
less than thirty (30) feet from the
yard shall be ten (10) feet or ten (10)
center line of said street. A twenty -
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five ( 25 ) foot minimum front yard shall
whichever is smaller, but a side yard
be required for a residential, duplex
except side adjacent to side street shall
or apartment use.
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B.
Where the frontage on one side of a street
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3. Rear Yard
within a block is partly in the "C"
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District and partially in a more restricted
commercial use, except where a lot abuts a single-
district, then the front yard shall
family, two- family or multiple - family district
conform to the front yard regulations of
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the more restricted district.
2. Side Yard
No side yard shall be required for a retail,
commercial or manufacturing use except:
A. On the side of a lot adjoining a single -
family, two - family or multiple- family
district and not separated therefrom by
an alley, there shall be a side yard of
ten (10) feet or ten (10) per cent of the
average width of the lot, whichever is
smaller, but a side yard shall not be less
than five ( 5 ) feet for each one (1)
story in height.
B. For a single- family, two - family or a
multiple - family dwelling use, a side
yard shall be required on each side of
the lot. The minimum width of the side
yard shall be ten (10) feet or ten (10)
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per cent of the average width of the lot,
whichever is smaller, but a side yard
shall not be less than five (5) feet,
except side adjacent to side street shall
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No rear yard shall be required for a retail or
commercial use, except where a lot abuts a single-
family, two- family or multiple - family district
in which event there shall be a rear yard on the
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rear of the lot equal to twenty (20) per cent of
the depth of the lot, but in no case shall a re-
quired rear yard be less than ten (10) feet in
depth. No rear yard shall be required where the
retail or commercial use is separated from the
residential district by an alley.
Area of the Lot
No minimum requirements.
Width of the Lot
No minimum requirements.
Depth of the Lot
No minimum requirements.
Maximum Coverage
The main building and accessory building may not
occupy more than sixty (60) per cent of the lot
area.
Miscellaneous Regulations
Wherever a "C" District adjoins a single - family,
two - family or multiple- family district and is not
separated by a street, a six (6) foot solid sight
barring fence or better shall be constructed and
maintained along or within one (1) foot of the
boundary or property Line of said "C" District to
serve as permanent screening. All outside lighting
fixtures shall be placed and reflected in such a
manner so as not to create a glare or sheen onto
the adjacent property as to create annoyances,
nuisances or hazards. Failure to comply with these
requirements shall constitute a violation of the
Zoning Ordinance and is subject to the penalties
that are hereinafter provided.
Exterior Fire Resistant Construction
All main buildings shall be of exterior fire
resistant construction. (By definition, exterior
fire resistant construction is construction having
at least seventy -five (75) per cent of the exterior
walls constructed of brick, stone, concrete block
or other masonry, or materials of equal character-
istics in accordance with the building code of the
City of North Richland Hills.)
Parking Regulations
A. The parking regulations for all neighbor-
hood and local retail uses are the same
as in the NR and LR Districts.
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B. Commercial amusements - skating rink at a
ratio of one (1) space for each one hundred
( 100 ) square feet of floor area; participant
amusements - minature golf, driving ranges,
amusement parks, a ratio of one (1) parking
space for each five (5) persons that can
be accommodated.
C. Hotel and Motel shall provide off - street
parking at the minimum ratio of one (1)
space for each guest room.'
D. Hospitals shall provide off - street parking
at the minimum ratio of one (1) space for
each two (2) beds.
E. All the other uses not covered above shall
provide off - street parking space at a ratio
of one (1) space for each three (3) employees.
The maximum number of employees on duty
at any time, day or night, shall be the
basis of determining parking requirements
for any establishment. Where the number
of employees is undeterminate, off - street
parking space shall be provided in a ratio
of one (1) space area.
F. All business uses shall provide and main-
tain off - street facilities for the loading
facilities in accordance with the require-
ments set forth in the LR District.
ARTICLE XX
"I" INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT
Section IL Permitted Uses: See Article VI - Use of
Land and Building Schedule.
Section II. �Hei ha t Reequlations: No building shall
exceed six (6) standard stories in height unless set -back from all
lot lines or any required yard lines one (1) foot for each foot above
such height limit.
When a building is located on a lot
adjoining a single - family, two - family or multiple- family district,
it shall not exceed three (3) standard stories in height unless it
is set -back one (1) foot from all required yard lines for each one
(1) foot of additional height above such height limit.
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Section III_ Area Requlations:
1. Front Yard
No front yard shall be required for a retail,
commercial or manufacturing use unless:
A. The street is less than sixty (60) feet in
width, in which case a manufacturing or
commercial structure shall be placed not
less than thirty (30) feet from the center
line of said street. A twenty -five (25)
foot minimum front yard shall be required
for a residential, duplex or apartment use.
B. Where the frontage on one side of a street
within a block is partly in the "I" Dis-
trict and partially in a more restricted
district, then the front yard shall con-
form to the front yard regulations of the
more restricted district.
2. Side Yard
No side yard shall be required for a retail,
commercial or manufacturing use, except on the side
of a lot adjoining a single - family, two - family or
multiple- family district and not separated there-
from by an alley, there shall be a side yard of
ten (10) feet or ten (10) per cent of the average
width of the lot, whichever is smaller, but a
side yard shall not be less than five (5) feet.
3. Rear Yard
No rear yard shall be required for a retail, com-
mercial or manufacturing use, except where a lot
abuts single- family, two - family or multiple- family
district in which event there shall be a rear
yard on the rear of the lot equal to twenty (20)
per cent of the depth of the lot, but in no case
shall a required rear yard be less than ten (10)
feet in depth. No rear yard shall be required
where the retail, commercial or manufacturing use
is separated from the residential district by an
alley.
4. Area of the Lot
No minimum lot area requirements for business uses.
5. Width of the Lot
No minimum width requirements for business uses.
6. Depth of Lot
No minimum depth requirements for business uses.
7. Maximum Coverage
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The main building and accessory building shall
not occupy more than seventy -five (75) per cent
of the lot area.
! 8. Exterior Fire Resistant Construction
All main buildings shall be of exterior fire
resistant construction. (By definition, exterior
fire resistant construction is construction having
at least seventy -five (75) per cent of the exterior
walls constructed of brick, stone, concrete block
or other masonry or materials of equal character-
istics in accordance with the building code of the
City of North Richland Hills.)
9. Miscellaneous Regulations
Wherever a "I" District adjoins a single - family,
two - family or multiple- family district and is not
separated by a street, a six (6) foot solid sight
bearing fence or better shall be constructed and
maintained along or within one (1) foot of the
boundary or property line of said "I" District to
serve as permanent screening. All outside lighting
fixtures shall be placed and reflected in such
a manner ao as not to create a glare or sheen
onto the adjacent property as to create annoyances,
nuisances or hazards. Failure to comply with
• these requirements shall constitute a violation
of the Zoning Ordinance and is subject to the
penalties that are herinafter provided.
10. Parking Regulations
A. The parking regulations for all neighbor-
hood and local retail uses are the same
as in the NR and LR Districts.
B. The parking regulations for commercial
uses are the same as those in the "C"
Commercial District.
C. Manufacturing, industrial and processing
establishments, repair shops, warehouses,
storage buildings, lumber and supply
yards shall provide off - street parking
space at a ratio of (1) space for each
five (5) employees. The maximum number
of employees on duty at any time, day or
night, shall be the basis of determining '
parking requirements for any establishment.
Where the number of employees is indeter-
minate, off - street parking space shall
be provided in a ratio of one (1) space
41 fbr each one thousand (1,000) square
feet of floor area.
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D.
Retail, offices, service, industrial
and manufacturing buildings shall pro-
vide and maintain off - street facilities
for the loading of merchandise and goods
within the building or on the lot and
adjacent to a public alley or .private
service drive to facilitate the movement
of traffic-on the public streets. Such
space shall consist of a minimum area
of ten (10 ) feet by twenty -five ( 25 ) feet
for each twenty thousand (20,000) square
feet of floor space or fraction thereof
in excess of three thousand (3,000)
square feet in the building or on the lot
used for retail, storage or service pur-
poses.
ARTICLE XXI
ACCESSORY BUILDING REGULATIONS
Section I.
Definition and Use Regulations
A.
In a residence or apartment district, an
accessory building is a subordinate
building, attached to or detached from
the main building, without separate
bath or kitchen facilities, not used
commercial purposes and not rented.
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B.
In other districts, an accessory building
is a subordinate building, the use of
which is incidental to and used only in
conjunction viith the main building.
Section II.
Height Regulations: No accessory build-
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ing shall exceed twenty -five (25) feet in height,. not shall it be
greater in height than
the main structure.
Section III. Area Regulations:
1. Front Yard
Attached accessory
yard not less than
accessory buildings
defined as the rear
2. Side Yard
building shall have a front
the main building. Detached
shall be located in the area
yard.
There shall be a side yard not less than three
(3) feet from and side lot line, alley line or
easement line, except that adjacent to a side
street the side yard shall never be less than
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twenty (20) feet and in no case shall an accessory
building be constructed less than fifty (50) feet
from the center line of the side street.
3. Rear Yard
There shall be a rear yard not less than three
(3) feet from any lot line, alley line or ease-
ment line, except that if no alley exists the
rear yard shall not be less than ten (10) feet
as measured from the rear lot line. Where
apartments are permitted, the main building and
all accessory buildings shall not cover more
than fifty (50) percent of that portion of the
lot lying to the rear of a line erected joining
the midpoint of the opposite side lot line.
Carports, garages, or other detached accessory
buildings located within the rear portion of the
lot as heretofore described shall not be
located closer than fifteen (15 ) feet to the
main building nor nearer than three (3) feet
to any side lot line.
4. Garage Facing Street or Alley Line
Any garage constructed in a residential or apart-
ment district detached or as an integral part of
the main structure, shall be set back not less
than twenty -five (25) feet from any street or
S alley line on which it faces. Carports or open
parking parallel to an alley shall be set -back
a distance of twenty -five (25) feet from furtherest
alley line if direct access from alley to parking
stall is intended.
5. Area R22 lations in Other Districts
All regulations for accessory buildings shall be
the same as the regulations for main structures.
6. Floor Area Permitted in Accessory Buildings in
Residential and Apartment Districts
The floor area of the accessory buildings shall
not exceed fifty (50) per cent of the floor area
of the main building, except that this require-
ment shall not limit the accessory building
floor area to less than four hundred (400)
square feet, and except that farm or agricultural
buildings ate not included. In any case, the
accessory building shall not occupy more than
thirty (30) per cent of the rear yard.
7. Private Stable or Similar Livestock Building,
No building or structure housing livestock, other
than normal household pets, shall be located with-
in one hundred (100) feet of any side, front or
rear property line.
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ARTICLE XXII
SPECIAL AREA AND USE REGULATIONS
A. Courts - Where an apartment building or buildings
are erected so as to create inner courts, the faces of all opposite
walls in such courts shall be a minimum distance of thirty (30) feet
apart and no balcony or canopy shall extend into such court area
for a distance greater than five (5) feet.
B. Location of Dwellings and Buildings - Only one
main building for one - family, two family or multiple- family use
with permitted accessory buildings may be located upon a lot or
unplatted tract. Every dwelling shall face or front upon a public
street, other than an alley, which means of access shall have a
minimum width of thirty (30) feet. Where a lot is used for re-
tail, commercial, industrial purposes or a combination of same,
or for a combination of retail and dwelling pruposes, more than one
(1) main building may be located upon the lot, but only when such
buildings conform to all the open space, parking and density
requirements applicable to the uses and districts, and when all such
main buildings, or portions thereof, are placed upon a single lot
or tract and such buildings will not face upon a public street,
the same may be permitted when the site plan for such development
is approved by the City Plan Commission so as to comply with the
normal requirements for platting. No parking area, storage area,
or required open space for one building shall be computed as being
the open space, yard or area requirements for any other dwelling
or other use.
C. Special Development Signs - Special temporary
development and promotion signs, not exceeding four hundred (400)
square feet in area, may be erected on private property upon
approval of the Building Inspector. The Building Inspector shall
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control the location and duration of s
the occupancy and use of adjacent lots
• and that no safety hazard is created.
signs will be removed at the direction
after completion of the development of
project advertised.
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uch sign use to assure that
are not interferred with
Such special development
of the Building Inspector
ninety (90) per cent of the
D. Temporary Construction Buildings - Temporary
buildings and temporary building material storage areas to be used
for construction purposes may be permitted for a specified period
of time in accordance with a permit issued by the Building
Inspector and subject to periodic renewal by the Inspector for
cause shown. Upon completion or abandonment of construction or
expiration of permit, such field offices and buildings shall be
removed at the direction of the'Building Inspector.
E. Conversion - Single- family and duplex structures
shall not be permitted to be changed to a use of less restricted
classification except on the basis of plans approved by the City
Plan Commission and the City Council. Such plans shall show
existing and proposed construction and /or remodeling, the use which
is intended, the location of the building on the lot, the required
off - street parking, and such other features as may be required by
this ordinance. No building or portion thereof designed and con-
structed as an apartment building under any local retail zoning
shall be changed or converted to a non - residential use of any type.
ARTICLE XXIII
EXCEPTIONS AND VARIANCES
Section I.__Vision Clearance
On any corner lot on which front and side yards
are required, no obstruction is permitted vertically between three
and one -half (3 -1/2) feet and ten (10) feet above the curb grade
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and horizontally fifty (50) feet in each direction from the corner.
Section II. Front Yard - The front yards heretofore
required shall be adjusted in the following cases:
A. Where thirty -five (35) per cent or more of the
frontage on one side of a street between two
intersecting streets is developed with buildings
that have observed, with variation of five (5)
feet or less, a front yard greater or lesser in
depth than herein required, new buildings shall
not be erected closer to the street than the
building line so established by the existing
buildings. However, this regulation shall not
be interpreted as requiring a building line of
more than fifty (50) feet. '
B. Where the frontage between two intersecting streets
is developed with buildings that have not observed
a front yard as described in (A) above, then:
(1) Where a building is to be erected on a
parcel of land and will not be more than
two hundred ( 200 ) feet from existing
buildings on either side, the building
line shall be a line drawn between the
two closest front corners of the adjacent
buildings on the two sides.
• (2) Where a building is to be erected on a
parcel of land that is within two hundred
(200) feet of an existing building on one
side only, such building may be erected
as close to the street as the existing
adjacent building; however, this regulation
shall not be interpreted as requiring a
building line of more than fifty (50) feet.
C. Where a building line has been established by
ordinance and such line requires a greater set-
back than is prescribed by this ordinance, in
the district in which the building line is
located, no building shall be erected closer to
the street than the line so established. .
D. Where a building line is shown on a plat recorded
for record with the County Clerk of Tarrant County
after Januzry 1, 1967, and such building line
provides a front yard of twenty -five (25) feet or
more in depth and a side yard of ten (10) feet or
more in depth and is part of a comprehensive plan
for the orderly development of a subdivision,
either with a uniform or staggered building line,
• no building shall be erected closer to the street
than the building line or lines so shown. However,
any building line established by ordinance shall
take precedence over a building line shown on a
recorded plat.
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E.
Open and unenclosed terraces or porches and
eave and roof extensions may project into the
required front yard for a distance not to exceed
four (4) feet; provided, however, that no sup-
porting structure for such extensions may be
located within the required front yard. The sup-
porting structure of an open carport or other
structure for the storage of automobiles shall
not be located within the required front yard.
An unenclosed canopy for a gasoline filling
station or similar business may extend beyond
the building line but shall never be closer to
the property line than twelve (12) feet. The
building line of a gasoline filling station
and shall not be interpreted as being the
curb of a walk or driveway or as the front of
a canopy or the column supporting same.
Section
III. Side �LnL Rear Yards
A.
Every part of the required side or rear yard
shall be open and unobstructed except for
accessory buildings as permitted herein and
the ordinary projection of window sills, belt
courses and other ornamental features projecting
not to exceed twelve (121 inches. Eaves and
awnings on main residential structures may
project to within three (3) feet of a side lot
line.
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B.
Accessory buildings may be built in the rear
yard except that when such accessory building
is located closer than fifteen (15) feet to
the main building.
C.
Open or lattice enclosed fire escapes, fire-
proof outside stairways, balconies opening
upon fire towers and ordinary projections of
chimneys and flues into rear yards may be
permitted by the Building Inspector into the
required rear yard for a distance not to
exceed three and one -half (3 -1/2) feet.
D.
Terraces, uncovered porches, platforms and
ornamental features which do not extend more
than three (3) feet above the ground (first
floor) level of the building may project into
a required side yard provided such projections
not be erected closer than two (2) feet from
the side lot line.
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IV. Lot Area
On any lot separately owned on January 1, 1967,
• a single- family house may be erected even though of less area than
required by these regulations.
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Section V. Outer Courts
Whenever an outer court in a building is used
or intended to be used for dwelling purposes and is formed by three
exterior walls of the building in which are located any openings,
windows or doors for light, access, air or ventilation, the mean
depth of the court measured from the base wall to a line projected
from the outer edge of one protruding wall to the outer edge of the
other protruding wall shall not be greater than one and one -half
(1 -1/2) times the distance between the two protruding walls.
Whenever the depth of the court equals or exceeds fifty (50) per
cent of the distance between the protruding walls, the minimum
width of an outer court shall be twelve (12) feet for one (1)
standard story building; twenty (20) feet for two story buildings,
thirty (30) feet for three story buildings and for buildings
exceeding three standard stories in height, the width of the outer
court shall be increased one (1) foot for each two (2) feet the
building exceeds three standard stories.
Section VI. Special Parking Requirements
Lodges and fraternal organizations shall provide
parking on the basis of one (1) parking space for each two hundred
(200) square feet of gross floor area, with a minimum of ten (10)
parking spaces. Churches shall provide parking spaces on the basis
of one (1) parking space for each five (5) seats in the main
sanctuary or auditorium. Places of public assembly, auditoriums,
field houses, stadiums and theaters shall provide parking spaces
on the basis of one (1) parking space for each five (5) seats.
Elementary and junior high schools shall provide parking on the
basis of one (1) parking space for each classroom plus one (1)
parking space for each five (5) seats in the school auditorium.
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High schools, colleges and universities shall provide parking
space on the basis of one (1) parking space for each classroom,
laboratory or instructional area plus one (1) parking space for
each four (4) students. The parking areas shall have an all -
weather surface and shall provide adequate and proper drainage
accordance with standard specifications and requirements of the
City of North Richland Hills. The parking areas, if lighted, shall
be designed and arranged in such a manner that the lights will not
create a glare or sheen onto the adjacent properties.
No such off - street parking shall be located with-
in the required front yard nor within four (4) feet of any building
nor within two (2) feet of any property line. Whenever off - street
parking spaces are located adjacent to any building or structure,
a curb or equivalent barrier shall be placed so as to prevent any
vehicle from parking within a minimum distance of four (4) feet
from such building or structure.
ARTICLE XXIV
NON - CONFORMING USES
Section I. Any lawful use of property existing at
the time of the passage of this ordinance, that does not conform
with the regulations prescribed in the preceding sections of this
ordinance, shall be deemed a non - conforming use, except that any
single - family, duplex or apartment use existing at the time of
passage of this ordinance shall be thereafter deemed a conforming
use.
Section II. The lawful use of land existing at the
time of the passing of this ordinance, although such does not con-
. form to the provisions thereof, may be continued, but if said non-
conforming use is discontinued for a period of six (6) months, any
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future use of said premises shall be in conformity with the provisions
of this ordinance.
Section III. The lawful use of the building at the tim8
of the passage of this ordinance may be continued although such does
not conform to the provisions hereof, and such use may be extended
throughout the building provided not a structural alteration, except
those required by law or ordinance are made therein. If no structural
alterations are made, a non - conforming use of the building may be
changed to another non - conforming use of the same or more restricted
classification; provided, however, that in the event ent a non - conforming
use of a building is once changed to a non - conforming use of a
higher or more restricted classification, it shall not later be reverted
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to the former lower or less restricted classification.
CO Section IV. The right of non - conforming use to con-
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t.inue shall be subject to such regulations as to maintenance of the
0 premises and conditions of operation as may, in the judgment of the
M Board of Adjustment, be reasonably required for the protection of
adjacent property.
Section V. A non - conforming use shall not be extended
or rebuilt in case of obsolescence or total destruction by fire or
other cause. In case of partial destruction by fire or other causes,
not exceeding fifty (50) per cent of its value, the Building Inspec-
tor shall issue a permit for reconstuction. If greater than fifty
(50) per cent and less than the total, the Board of Adjustment here-
inafter created may grant permit for repair after public hearing
and having due regard for the property rights of the persons affected
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when considered in the light of the public welfare and the character
of the area surrounding the designated non - conforming use of the
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conservation and preservation of property.
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Section VI. A violation of this ordinance and a
request for a non - conforming designation or request for relief
. under this designation shall not create an estoppel of the trial
of any law suit which may be filed in any court.
ARTICLE XXV
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
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1. There is hereby created a Board of Adjustment
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consisting of five (5) me=mbers, each to be appointed by a majority
of the City Council for a term of two (2) years and removable for
cause by the appointing authority. Vacancies shall be filled by
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the appointment by the original appointing authority of a suitable
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on the Board has become vacant for any cause. The Board is hereby
vested with power and authority, in appropriate cases and subject
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to the terms of this ordinance in harmony with its general purpose
and intent and in accordance with general and special rules therein
contained for the purpose or rendering full justice and equity to
the general public. The Board may adopt rules to govern its pro-
ceedings, provided, however, that such rules are not inconsistent
with this ordinance. Meetings of the Board shall be held at the
call of the chairman, who may administer oaths and compel the
attendance of witnesses. All meetings of the Board shall be open
to the public. The Board shall keep minutes of its proceedings,
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showing the vote of
each member upon each question,
or, if absent
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or failing to vote,
indicating such fact, and shall
keep records
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of its examinations
and other official actions, all
of which shall
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be immediately filed
in the office of the Board and
shall be a
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2. Appeals to the Board of Adjustment can be taken
by any person aggrieved or by any officer, department, board or
department of municipality affected by any decision z>f the
administrative office. Such appeals shall be taken within fifteen
(15) days time after the decision has been rendered by the
administrative office by filing with the officer from whom the
appeal is taken and with the Board of Adjustment a notice of appeal
specifying the grounds thereof. The officer from whom the appeal
is taken shall forthwith transmit to the Board all the papers
constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was
taken. An appeal stays all proceedings in furtherance of the
action appealed from, unless the officer from whom the appeal is
taken certifies to the Board of Adjustment after the notice of appeal
shall have been filed with him that, by reason of facts stated in
the certificate, a stay would in his opinion cause imminent peril
• to life or property. In such case, proceedings shall not be stayed,
otherwise taken by a restraining order which may be granted by the
Board of Adjustment or by a court of record or application on
notice to the officer from whom the appeal is taken and on due
cause shown. The Board of Adjustment shall fix a reasonable time
for the hearing of an appeal, give the public notice thereof, as
well as due notice to the parties in interest and decide the same
within a reasonable time. Upon the hearing, any party may appear
in person or by attorney or by agent.
3. Jurisdiction of the Board of Adjustment - When
in its judgment, the public convenience and welfare will be sub-
stantially served and the appropriate use of the neighboring
property will not be substantially or permanently .injured, the
Board of Adjustment may, in specific cases, after public notice
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and public hearing, and subject to appropriate conditions and
safeguards, authorizw the following special exceptions to the
regulations herein established:
(A.) Permit the reconstruction, extension
or enlargement of a building occupied by
a non- conforming use on the lot or
tract occupied by such building provided
such reconstruction does not prevent the
return of such property to a conforming
use.
(B.) Permit such modifications of the height,
yard, area, coverage and parking regulations
as may be necessary to secure appropriate
development of a parcel of land which
differs from other parcels in the district
by being of such restricted area, shape
or slope that it cannot be appropriately
developed without such modification.
(C.) Require the discontinuance of non - conforming
uses under any plan whereby the full value
of the structure can be amortized within
a definite period of time, taking into
consideration the general character of the
neighborhood and the necessity for all
property to conform to the regulations of
this ordinance. It is the declared pur-
pose of this ordinance that non - conforming
uses be eliminated and be required to con-
form to the regulations prescribed in
the preceding articles of this ordinance,
having due regard for the property rights
of the persons affected when considered
in the light of the public welfare and
the character of the area surrounding
the designated non - conforming use and the
conservation and preservation of property.
The Board shall from time to time on its
own motion or upon cause presented by .inter-
ested property owners inquire into the
existence, continuation or maintenance
of any non - conforming use within the city.
It is the declared purpose of this
ordinance that non - conforming uses be
eliminated and be required to conform to
the regulations prescribed in the pre-
ceding articles of this ordinance.
The Board of Adjustment shall also have the fol-
lowing powers: To hear and decide appeals where it is alleged there
is error in any order, requirement, decision or determination made
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by an administrative official in the enforcement of this ordinance;
to hear and decide special exceptions to the terms of the ordinance
upon which the Board is required to pass under this ordinance; to
authorize upon appeal in special cases such variances from the
terms of the ordinance as will not be contrary to the public in-
terest where, owing to special conditions, the literal enforcement
of the provisions of the ordinance will result in unnecessary
hardship and so that the spirit of this ordinance shall be observed
and substantial justice done.
4. In exercising its powers the Board may, in con-
fortuity with the provisions of Articles 1011 -a to 1011 -j of the
Civil Statutes of Texas, revise or reform, wholly or partly, or
may modify the order, requirement, decision or determination as
ought to be made and shall have all the powers of the officer from
whom the appeal is taken.
5. The concurring vote of four (4) members of the
Board shall be necessary to reverse any order, requirement, decision
or determination of any such administrative official, or to decide
in favor of the application on any matter upon which it is required
to pass under this ordinance or to affect any variance in said
ordinance.
6. Any person or persons, jointly or severally,
aggrieved by any decision of the Board of Adjustment or any tax-
payer or any officer, department or board of the municipality may
present to a court of record a - petition, duly verified, setting forth
that such decision is illegal, in whole or in part, specifying
the grounds of the .illegality. Such petition shall be presented
to the court within ten (10) days after the filing of the decision
in the office of the Board and not thereafter.
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ARTICLE XXVI
UNPLATTED PROPERTY
The City Plan Commission of the city shall not approve
any plat of any subdivision within the city limits of the city
until the area covered by the proposed plat shall have been per-
manently zoned by the City Council.
The City Plan Commission of the city shall not approve
any plat of any subdivision within any area where a petition or
ordinance for annexation or a recommendation for annexation to the
City is pending before the City Council.
In the event the City Plan Commission holds a hearing on
proposed annexation, it may, at its discretion, at the same time
hold a hearing upon the permanent zoning that is to be given to the
area or tract to be annexed, and make a recommendation on both matters
to the City Council so that the City Council can, if it desires,
act on the matter of permanent zoning and annexation at the same
time.
ARTICLE XXVII
PERMITS AND CERTIFICATES
Section I. Certificate of Occupancy and Compliance
1. No building hereafter erected or struc-
turally altered shall be used, occupied, or changed in use until a
certificate of occupancy and compliance shall have been issued by
the Building Inspector stating that the building or proposed use
of the building or premises complies with the building laws and the
provisions of these regulations.
2. Certificates of occupancy and compliance
shall be applied for coincident with the application for building
. permit and shall be .issued within ten (10) days after the erection
of structural alteration of such building shall have been completed
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in conformity with the provisions of these regulations. A record
any person having a propriety or tenancy interest in the building
affected.
3. No permit for excavation for any
building shall be issued before application has been made for
a certificate of occupancy and compliance.
ARTICLE XXVIII
PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
Any persons or corporation who shall violate any of
the provisions of this ordinance or fail to comply therewith or
with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall build or alter
of all certificates
shall be
kept on file in the
office of
the
statement or plan
Building Inspector
and copies
shall be furnished
on request
to
any person having a propriety or tenancy interest in the building
affected.
3. No permit for excavation for any
building shall be issued before application has been made for
a certificate of occupancy and compliance.
ARTICLE XXVIII
PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
Any persons or corporation who shall violate any of
the provisions of this ordinance or fail to comply therewith or
with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall build or alter
and shall be liable to a fine of not more than Two Hundred ($200.00)
Dollars and each day such vioation shall be permitted to exist
shall constitute a separate offense. The owner or owners of any
building or premises or part thereof, where anything in violation
of this ordinance shall be placed or shall exist, and any archi-
tect, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed
in connection therewith, and who may have assisted in the commission
of any such violation, shall be guilty of a separate offense and,
upon conviction, shall be fined as herein provided.
ARTICLE XXIX
CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS
0 1. The governing body may from time to
time amend, supplement or change by ordinance the boundaries of
the districts or the regulations herein established.
any building
or use in
violation
of any
detailed
statement or plan
submitted and
approved
hereunder,
shall
be guilty
of a misdemeanor
and shall be liable to a fine of not more than Two Hundred ($200.00)
Dollars and each day such vioation shall be permitted to exist
shall constitute a separate offense. The owner or owners of any
building or premises or part thereof, where anything in violation
of this ordinance shall be placed or shall exist, and any archi-
tect, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed
in connection therewith, and who may have assisted in the commission
of any such violation, shall be guilty of a separate offense and,
upon conviction, shall be fined as herein provided.
ARTICLE XXIX
CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS
0 1. The governing body may from time to
time amend, supplement or change by ordinance the boundaries of
the districts or the regulations herein established.
2. Before taking action on any proposed
amendment, supplement or change, the governing body shall submit
the same to the Planning Commission for its recommendation and
report.
3. A public hearing shall be held by the
governing body before adopting any proposed amendment, supplement
or change. Notice of such hearing shall be given by publication
one (1) time in the official pbulicat.ion of the City of North
Richland Hills, stating the time and place of such hearing, which
time shall not be earlier than fifteen (15) days from the date
of publication. Written notice of all public hearing before the
City Planning and Zoning Commission on proposed changes in
classification shall be sent to owners of real property lying within
two hundred (200) feet of the property on which the change in
classification is proposed, such notice to be given not less than
• ten days before the date set for hearing to all such owners who have
rendered their said property for city taxes as the ownership
appeared on the last approved city tax roll. Such notice may be
served by depositing the same, properly addressed and postage
paid in the city post office
4. Unless such proposed amendment, supple-
ment or change has been approved by the Planning Commission or if
a protest aginst such proposed amendment, supplement or change
has been filed with the City Secretary, duly signed and acknowledged
by the owners of twenty (20)per cent or more, either of the area
of the lots included in such proposed change or those immediately
adjacent in the rear thereof extending 200 feet herefrom or of those
• directly opposite thereto extending 200 feet from the street frontage
of such opposite lots, such amendment shall not become effective
except by a three - fourths (3 /4ths) vote of the governing body.
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5. The official zoning map of the City of
North Richland Hills shall be kept in the office of the City Sec-
retary.
ARTICLE XXX
DEFINITIONS
Certain words in this ordinance are defined for the purpose hereof
as follows:
1. Words in the present tense .include the future; words in
the singular number .include the plural number; the words in the
plural number include the singular; the word "building" .includes
the word "structure ", the word "lot" includes the word "plot ",
the word "shall" is mandatory and directive.
2. Accessory Building: In a residence or apartment district,
a subordinate building, attached to or detached from the main
building without separate utilities, not used for commercial
purposes and not rented and containing servants quarters, a wash-
room, a storage room for domestic storage only, and space for
one or more automobiles. In any other district, a subordinate
building, the'use of which is incidental to and used only in
conjunction with the main building.
3. Alley: A public space or thoroughfare which affords only
secondary means of access to property abutting thereon.
4. Apartments: A room or suite of rooms in an apartment
house arranged,designed or occupied as the residence by a single
family, individual, or group of .individuals.
5. Apartment House: Any building, or portion thereof, which
is designed, built, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied
as three or more living units or which is occupied as the home or
residence of three or more families living .independently of each
other and maintaining separate cooking facilities.
6. Area of the Lot: The area of the lot shall be the net
area of the lot and shall not include portions of streets and alleys.
7. Auto Trailer: See house trailer.
8. Basement: That portion of a building between floor and
ceiling, which is partly below and partly above grade, but so
located that the vertical distance from grade to the floor below
is less than the vertical distance from grade to ceiling.
9. Block: An area within the City enclosed by streets and
occupied by or intended for buildings; or, if said word is used
as a term of measurement, it shall mean the distance along a side
of a street between the nearest two streets which intersect said
street on said side.
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10. Boarding House: A building other than a hotel, where
lodging and meals for five or more persons are served for com-
pensation.
• 11. Breezeway: A covered passage one story in height connecting
a main structure and an accessory building.
12. Building: Any structure or building for the support,
w shelter and enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or movable
W property of any kind.
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13. Building Line: A line parallel or approximately parallel
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to the lot line and beyond which buildings may not be erected.
14. Building, End Of: Those sides of the building having the
least dimensions and in which doors or openings are not customarily
provided for ingress and egress.
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0 15. Business: Includes retail, commercial, and manufacturing
0 uses and districts as herein defined.
16. Cellar: That portion of a building between floor and
ceiling which is partly below and partly above grade, but so
located that the vertical distance from grade to the floor below
is greater than the vertical distance from grade to ceiling.
17. Clinic, Medical: An institution or station for the
examination and treatment of ill and afflicted out - patients.
18. Court: An open, unoccupied space bounded on more than
two sides by the walls of the building. An .inner court is a court
entirely surrounded by the exterior walls of a building. An outer
court is a court-having one side open to a street, alley, yard or
other permanently open space.
19. Depth of Rear Yard: The mean horizontal distance between
the rear line of a building other than accessory building and the
rear lot line.
20. Depth of Lot: The mean horizontal distance between the
front and rear lot lines.
"A 21. Dwelling, One - Family Detached: A detached building having
accommodations for and occupied by not more than one family, or by
one family and not more than four (4) boarders or lodgers.
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M 22. Dwelling, One - Family Attached: A dwelling unit on a sep-
UJ platted lot which is joined to another dwelling unit on
< one or more sides by a party wall or abutting separate wall, served
W by separate utilities and not occupied by more than one family.
.3 23. Dwelling, Two - Family: A detached building having separate
accommodations for and occupied by not more than two families, or
by two families and not more than four (4) boarders or lodgers.
(Two boarders or lodgers to each unit.)
cc 24,. Dwelling Unit: A building or portion of a building which
is arranged, occupied or intended to be occupied as living quarters.
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25. District: A section of the City for which the regulations
governing the area, height or use of the building are uniform.
26. Efficiency Apartment: An apartment having a combination
living and bedroom. (No separate bedroom).
27. Family: A family is any number of individuals living
together as a single housekeeping unit, in which not more than
four (4) individuals are unrelated by blood.
28. Front Yard: An open, unoccupied space on a lot facing a
street and extending across the front of the lot between the side
yard lines and being the minimum horizontal distance between the street
line and the main building or any projection thereof other than the
projection of the usual steps or eave overhang.
29. Grade: The average elevation of the highest and lowest
elevations measured at the finished surface of the ground at any
of the exterior corners of the building or structure.
30. Gross Floor Area: The gross floor area of an apartment house
shall be measured by taking the outside dimensions of the apartment
building at each floor level excluding, however, the floor area of
basements or attics not used for residential purposes.
31. Height: The height of a building or portion of a building
shall be measured from the average established grade at the street
lot line or from the average natural ground level, if higher or,
is no street grade has been established, to the highest point of
the roof's surface if a flat surface; to the deck line of mansard
roof's surface if a flat surface; to the deck line of gable roofs. In
measuring the height of a building, the following structures
shall be excluded: chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads,
penthouses, or spires, and parapet walls not exceeding four (4)
feet in height.
32. Hobby Shop: An accessory use housed in a dwelling or in
an accessory building in which the residents of the premises engage
in recreational activities none of which shall disturb the neighbors
on either side or in the rear thereof, and from which no revenue
may be derived, in which no goods may be publicly displayed, offered
for sale, or advertised for sale, nor may any sign be used in
connection therewith.
33. Hotel and Motel: A building or arrangement of buildings
designed and occupied as a temporary abiding place of individuals
who are lodged with or without meals, in which the rooms are usually .
occupied singly for hire, in which there are no provisions for cooking
in individual rooms or apartments.
34. House Trailer: A portable vehicle designed as temporary or
permanent place of abode.
35. Housing Project: An area of three (3) or more acres arranged
according to a site plan to be submitted to and to be approved by
the City Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council on
which is indicated the amount of land to be devoted to housing fac-
ilities, their arrangement thereon, together zoned as an apartment
zone upon -the recommendation of the City Planning and Zoning
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Commission and the action of the City Council, and in which it
shall not be necessary to subdivide the area into lots and blocks.
The site plan shall indicate that all access streets, alleys, side-
walks, storm sewers, and storm sewer inlets shall be provided as
required by the City and built in accordance with City specifi-
cations.
36. Living Area: That portion of a building or structure devoted
to the occupants use and benefit and shall not include garages,
carports or outside areas.
37. Lodging House: A building other than
lodging for five or more persons is provided 5
38. Lot: Land occupied or to be occupied
its accessory building and including such open
under this ordinance, and having its principal
public street or officially approved place.
a hotel, where
3r compensation.
by a building and
spaces as are required
frontage upon a
39. Lot lines: The lines bounding a lot as defined herein.
40. Lot of Record: A lot which is part of a subdivision, the
plat of which has been recorded in the office of the County Clerk,
or a parcel of land, the deed for which was recorded in the office
of the County Clerk prior to passage of this ordinance.
41. Non - Conforming Uses: A building, structure or use of land
lawfully occupied at the time of the effective date of this ordinance
or amendments thereto, and which does not conform to the use regu-
lations of the district in which it is situated.
42. Open Space: Area included in any side, rear or front yard
or any unoccupied space on the lot that is open and unobstructed
to the sky except for the ordinary projection of cornices, eaves
or porches.
43. Parking Space: An area of not less than 180 square feet
(measuring approximately 9 feet by 20 feet) not on a .public street
or alley, surfaced with an all- weather surface, enclosed or
unenclosed, together with an all- weather surfaced driveway connecting
the parking space with a street or alley permitting free ingress
and egress. In any single- family dwelling, duplex or apartment
district, the parking of trucks or buses for commercial purposes
shall not be permitted. Head -in parking adjacent to public thor-
oughfares wherein the maneuvering is done on a public street,
shall not be classified as off - street parking in computing the
parking requirements for any use.
44. Permanent Community Open Space: Parks, School Playgrounds,
Community Centers, Golf Courses, Parkways, Water Areas or similar
areas which are dedicated to the City of North Richland Hills or
which are created as private open space under a permanent agreement
for maintenance and responsibility which agreement is accepted by
the City,�Council and approved by the City Attorney.
• 45. Place: An open, unoccupied space reserved for purposes of
access to abutting property.
46. Private Garage: An accessory building or portion thereof
in which not more than five (5) privately owned motor - driven
vehicles are stored by occupants of the premises, not more than
one of which may be a truck of not to exceed one (1) or one and
one -half (1 -1/2) ton capacity.
. 47. Public Garage: A building or portion of a building used
for repair, care, or servicing of motor - driven vehicles, or where
motor - driven vehicles are equipped for operation, or kept for
hire or sale, but not including the open storage of trucks, trailers
and vans.
48. Private Stables: A stable with a capacity for not more than
four horses or mules.
49. Public Stables: A stable with a capacity for more than
four horses or mules.
50. Rear Yard: The required rear yard is an open space un-
occupied and unobstructed extending across the rear of a lot from
one side lot line to the other side lot line and having a depth
of twenty (20) per cent of the depth of the lot.
51. Screening: Screening consisting of a solid sight barring
fence shall be built and maintained along those property lines
adjacent to residentially zoned properties.
52. Shoppirg Center: An area consisting of three (3) Acres-6r
more arranged according to a site plan to be submitted to and to
be approved by the City Planning and Zoning Commission and the
City Council, on which is indicated the amount of land to be
devoted to the shopping village, the detailed arrangement of the
various buildings, parking area, streets, and type of zoning
desired. It shall be required that the installation of all utilities,
drainage structures, the paving of streets, parking area, alley
and sidewalks be in accordance with the city specifications for
each type of improvement.
53. Sight Barring: A fence or wall having a height of six
(6) feet of a permanent type wall material, the surface of which
does not contain openings more than forty (40) square inches in
each one (1) square feet of surface of such wall or fence and
which surface shall constitute a visual barrier.
54. Servants Quarters: An accessory building or portion of
a main building located on the same lot as the main building and
used as living quarters for servants employed on the premises
and not rented or otherwise used as a separate domicile.
55. Service Station: As a retail use, does nctinclude major
repairs, overhauling, equipment rental, used or new car sales or
auto parts and accessory sales.
56. Side Yard: An open, unoccupied space on the same lot
with a building situated between the building and side line of
the lot and extending through from the front yard to the required
rear yard. Any lot line not the rear line or a front line shall
be deemed a side line.
57. Storage Garage: A building or portion thereof used for
the storage of more than five (5) passenger motor vehicles and
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trucks of nbt more than one and one half (1 -1/2) ton capacity.
58. Story, Half: A story having an average height of not
more than eight (8) feet, covering a floor area of not more than
seventy -five (75) per cent of the area of the floor of the
first story below.
59. Story, Standard: One having eleven (11) feet six (6)
inches between floors.
60. Street: Any thoroughfare or public driveway, other than
any alley, and more than twenty (20) feet in width, which has
been dedicated or deeded to the public for public use.
61. Street Line: A dividing line between a lot, tract or
parcel of land and a contiguous street.
62. Structural Alterations: Any change in the supporting
member of a building, such as a bearing wall, column, beams or
girders.
63. Tourist Court: One or more buildings designed or used
as temporary living quarters for automobile transients in which
individual cooking facilities may or may not be provided. If
facilities are provided for individual cooking so that the units
may be occupied as dwelling units the same area, density and
yard regulations as required in the "A" Apartment District,
shall be observed. In all cases, one (1) off - street parking
space shall be provided for each room or suite of rooms in the
tourist court.
64. Trailer Camp or Park: An area designed, arranged or
used for the parking or storing of one or more auto trailers
which are occupied or intended for occupancy as temporary
living quarters by individuals or families. House trailers,
auto trailers, or mobil homes shall not be considered as dwellings,
structures or buildings.
65. Used Car Lots: A lot or portion thereof to be used only
for the display and sale of automobiles that are in condition to
be driven on or off the lot. A used car lot shall not be used
for the storage of wrecked automobiles, or the dismantling of
automobiles, or the storage of auomob.ile parts.
66. Width of Side Yard: The mean horizontal distance between
a side wall of a building and the side line of the lot.
67. Yard: An open, unoccupied space other than a court, on
the lot in which a building is situated and which is unobstructed
from the ground to the sky.
ARTICLE XXXI
COMPLETION OF EXISTING BUILDINGS
• Nothing herein contained shall require any change in the
plans, construction or designated use of a building actually under
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construction at the time of the passage of this ordinance and
which entire building shall be complete within one (1) year
from the passage of this ordinance, or for which a building
permit has been hereto fore issued and which entire building
shall be complete within six (6) months from the date of date
of the passage of this ordinance. If any amendment to this
ordinance is hereafter adopted changing the boundaries of
districts, the provisions of this ordinance with regard to
buildings or premises existing or buildings under construction
or building permits issued at the time of the passage of this
ordinance shall apply to building permits .issued in the area
affected by such amendment at the time of the passage of such
amendment.
ARTICLE XXXII
PRESERVING RIGHTS IN PENDING LITIGATION AND VIOLATIONS
UNDER EXISTING ORDINANCES
By the passage of this orinance, no presently illegal use
shall be deemed to have been legalized unless specifically such
use falls within a use district where the actual use is a con-
forming use. Otherwise, such uses shall remain non- conforming
uses where recognized, or an .illegal use, as the case may be.
It is further the .intent and declared purpose of this ordinance
that no offense committed, and no liability, penalty or forfeiture,
either civil or criminal, incurred prior to the time the zoning
ordinance was repealed and the present zoning ordinance adopted,
shall be discharged or affected by such repeal; but prosecutions
and suits for such offenses, liabilities, penalties or forfeitures
may be .instituted or causes presently pending proceeded with in
all respects as if such prior ordinance had not been repealed.
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ARTICLE XXXIII
VALIDITY
• If any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase
or provision of this ordinance shall be adjudged invalid or held
unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of this
ordinance as a whole or any part or provision thereof other than
the part so decided to be .invalid or unconstitutional.
ARTICLE XXXIV
INTERPRETATION, PURPOSE AND CONFLICT
In interpreting and applying the provisions of this ordinance,
they shall be held to be the minimum requirements for the promotion
of the public safety, health, convenience, comfort, prosperity or
general welfare. It is not intended by this ordinance to interfere
with or abrogate or annul any easements, covenants or other agree-
ments between parties, provided, however, that where this ordinance
imposes a greater restriction upon the use of buildings or premises
or upon height of buildings or requires larger open spaces than
are imposed or required by agreements, the provisions of this
ordinance shall govern.
ARTICLE XXXV
REPEALING CLAUSE
All ordinances and part of ordinances in conflict herewith
are repealed, except that where a special permit zoning ordinance
has heretofore been adopted by the City Council requiring dedication
of street or alley right -of -way, and where such required right -of-
way has not been dedicated, the provisions of such special permit
ordinances requiring such dedications shall remain in full force
and effect, and shall not be repealed by the provisions of this
Zoning Ordinance.
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ARTICLE XXXVI
WHEN EFFECTIVE
The fact that the present zoning regulations are inade-
quate to properly safeguard the general public welfare, health,
peace and safety, creates an urgency and an emergency, and
requires that this Ordinance become effective .immediately upon
its passage, and it is accordingly so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the unam.inous vote of all members
of the City Council present at a regular meeting in the Council
chambers of the City of North Richland Hills, after the close of
the joint public hearing between the City Planning and Zoning
Commission and the City Council, the 13th day of November, 1967.
Calvin F. Luger, Ma of
ATTEST:
E alyn Ree , City Secr ary
APPROVED,,XS TO FORM AND LEGALUY:
• PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 13th day of November
1967.
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