ARTICLE 193. PD 193. Oak Lawn ... - Dallas City Attorney

1 ARTICLE 193. PD 193. Oak Lawn Special Purpose District PART I. GENERAL REGULATIONS. SEC. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY. PD 193 was established by Ordinance No. 18580, passed by the Dallas City Council on February 8, 1985. Ordinance No. 18580 amended Ordinance No. 10962, Chapter 51 of the Dallas City Code, as amended. On September 9, 1992, Ordinance No. 18580 was repealed, and PD 193 was re-established by Ordinance No. 21416. Ordinance No. 21416 amended Ordinance No. 10962, Chapter 51 of the Dallas City Code, as amended. On october 27, 1993, Ordinance No. 21416 was repealed, and PD 193 was re- established by Ordinance No. 21859. Ordinance No.

2 21859 amended Ordinance No. 10962, Chapter 51 of the Dallas City Code, as amended. Subsequently, Ordinance No. 21859 was amended by Ordinance No. 22721, passed by the Dallas City Council on April 10, 1996; Ordinance No. 22724, passed by the Dallas City Council on April 10, 1996; Ordinance No. 23254, passed by the Dallas City Council on September 10, 1997; Ordinance No. 23642, passed by the Dallas City Council on September 9, 1998; Ordinance No. 23644, passed by the Dallas City Council on September 9, 1998; Ordinance No. 24346, passed by the Dallas City Council on August 23, 2000; Ordinance No. 24347, passed by the Dallas City Council on August 23, 2000; Ordinance No.

3 24728, passed by the Dallas City Council on September 26, 2001;. Ordinance No. 24896, passed by the Dallas City Council on April 10, 2002; and Ordinance No. 25243, passed by the Dallas City Council on May 14, 2003. Ordinance No. 22721 rezoned property located along Cole Avenue, between Hall and Lemmon Avenue, from PD 213 to PD 193. Ordinance No. 22724 rezoned property located south of Oak Lawn Avenue, between the Dallas north Tollway and Maple Avenue, from PD 193 to PD 77. Ordinance No. 23254 rezoned property located at the south corner of Wycliff Avenue and Cedar Springs Road from PD 172 to PD 193. Ordinance No. 23642 rezoned property located south of Oak Lawn Avenue and west of Maple Avenue from PD 193 and PD 77 to PD 518.

4 Ordinance No. 23644. replaced Exhibit A attached to Ordinance No. 21859, as amended. Ordinance No. 24346 rezoned property located east of Stemmons Freeway and north of Woodall Rodgers Freeway from PD 193 to PD 582. Ordinance No. 24347 replaced Exhibit A attached to Ordinance No. 21859, as amended. Ordinance No. 24896 rezoned property located on the northwest corner of Buena Vista Street and north Haskell Street from PD 193 to PD 305. (Ord. Nos. 10962; 18580; 21416; 21859; 22721; 22724; 23254; 23642; 23644;. 24346; 24347; 24728; 24896; 25243; 25267). SEC. PROPERTY LOCATION AND SIZE. PD 193 is established on property generally bounded by Woodall Rodgers Freeway, north central Expressway, the Missouri, Kansas, and texas Railroad, the city limits of the City of Highland Park, Bordeaux Avenue, Inwood Road, Denton Drive Cut-off, Maple Avenue, Cedar Springs Branch Creek, Harry Hines Boulevard, Oak Lawn Avenue, and Stemmons Freeway but excluding existing PD's within those boundaries.

5 The size of PD 193 is approximately acres. (Ord. Nos. 21859; 22721;. 22724; 23254; 23642; 24346; 24896; 25267; 26776). SEC. PURPOSE. (a) In general. This ordinance provides standards specifically tailored to meet the needs of the Oak Lawn area of the city of Dallas , which is currently recognized as an area of cultural and architectural importance and significance to the citizens of the city. The general objectives of these standards are to promote and protect the health, safety, welfare, convenience, and enjoyment of the public, and, in part, to achieve the following: (1) To achieve buildings more urban in form. (2) To promote and protect an attractive street level pedestrian environment with continuous street frontage activities in retail areas.

6 (3) To encourage the placement of off-street parking underground or within buildings similar in appearance to non-parking buildings. (4) To promote development appropriate to the character of nearby neighborhood uses by imposing standards sensitive to scale and adjacency issues. (5) To use existing zoned development densities as a base from which to plan, while providing bonuses to encourage residential development in commercial areas. (6) To discourage variances or zoning changes which would erode the quantity or quality of single-family neighborhoods, or would fail to adhere to the standards for multiple-family neighborhoods and commercial areas, or would fail to comply with the overall objectives of the Oak Lawn Plan accepted and endorsed by the city council on December 14, 1983, by Resolution No.

7 83-4034. (7) To promote landscape/streetscape quality and appearance. (8) To aid the environment's ecological balance by contributing to the processes of air purification, oxygen regeneration, groundwater recharge, and storm water runoff retardation, while at the same time aiding in noise, glare, and heat abatement. (9) To provide visual buffering and enhance the beautification of the city. (10) To safeguard and enhance property values and to protect public and private investment. (11) To conserve energy. (b) Compliance with FHAA. The city council intends that this ordinance fully comply with the Federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 ("FHAA") and all other applicable state and federal legislation.

8 Residential use and subdistrict regulations in this ARTICLE are based on the family unit as defined in Section It is the express intent of the city council that all families as defined herein be treated alike without regard to the handicapped or non-handicapped status of individual family members, and that this ARTICLE be construed in a manner consistent with the FHAA and all other applicable state and federal legislation at all times. (Ord. Nos. 21859; 25267). SEC. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS. (a) Definitions. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the definitions contained in Chapter 51 apply to this ARTICLE . Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, in this ARTICLE : (1) BAR AND RESTAURANT USE means any use listed in Section (i).

9 As having an off-street parking requirement of one space for each 100 square feet. (2) BLOCKFACE means all of the lots on one side of a block. For purposes of this definition, the term "block" means an area bounded by streets on all sides. (3) BOARD means the board of adjustment. (4) central AREA SUBDISTRICTS means the CA-1 and CA-2 subdistricts. (5) COMMERCIAL SUBDISTRICTS means the NS, SC, GR, LC, and HC. subdistricts. (6) COMMISSION means the city plan and zoning commission. (7) DIRECTOR means the director of the department of development services, or that person's representative. (8) FENCE means a structure or hedgerow that provides a physical barrier, including a fence gate.

10 (9) FERROUS METAL means a metal that contains significant quantities of iron or steel. (10) FRONT YARD means the portion of a lot that abuts a street and extends across the width of the lot between the street and the main building. "Required" front yard means the portion of a lot that abuts a street and extends across the width of the lot between the street and the setback line. (11) GARBAGE STORAGE AREA means a place outdoors where a container, such as a dumpster or a grease collector, for the deposit of garbage and other waste is regularly kept. (12) HAZARDOUS WASTE means solid waste, as defined by state law, identified or listed as hazardous waste by the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 Section 6901 et seq.)