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Home My WebLink AboutORD 1988-081 ORDINANCE NO. 88-81 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 82-73 , THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY �"'" OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, SAME BEING ALSO KNOWN AS APPENDIX "D" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, BY PROVIDING „��, FOR AMENDMENTS AND CHANGES TO ZONING REGULATIONS BY AMENDING SECTION 42 SUPPLEMENTARY DISTRICT REGULATIONS; BY AMENDING SECTION 60 SIGN STANDARDS; BY AMENDING SECTION 64 CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY AND COMPLIANCE; PROVIDING A PENALTY OF FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,000 . 00) FOR EACH OFFENSE AND A SEPARATE OFFENSE SHALL BE DEEMED COMMITTED EACH DAY DURING OR ON WHICH AN OFFENSE OCCURS OR CONTINUES; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS: Section 1 . That Ordinance No. 82-73, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of Grapevine, Texas, same being also known as Appendix "D" of the Code of Ordinances of the City of �� Grapevine, Texas, is hereby amended in the following particulars, and all other sections, subsections, paragraphs, definitions, �.� words and phrases of said Appendix "D" are not amended but are hereby ratified, verified, and affirmed: A. That Section 42 relative to Supplementary District Regulations is hereby amended by amending Section 42 .A. shall read as attached in Exhibit "A" . B. That Section 60 relative to Sign Standards is hereby amended by amending Section 60.E. 1 .h. to read as follows: " (h) Permission is granted as a special privilege to any business in a properly zoned area to display flags, banners, and balloons for a period not exceeding two (2) weeks in any quarter of a calendar year in connection with grand openings or special sales being conducted by said business. Such signs and their placement must be approved by the Director of Community Development. A permit shall be required. Such flags, banners, and balloons may be erected and maintained only during such two (2) week � periods. " C. That Section 64 relative to Certificate of Occupancy and Compliance is hereby amended by amending Subsection A, which �� shall read as follows: "A. No existing building and no building hereafter erected or structurally altered, or any land shall be occupied, used, changed in use or changed in occupancy, until a Certificate of Occupancy and compliance shall have been issued by the Building Official stating that the building and proposed use of the building, if any, and land complies with all of the health laws , building code ordinances, ordinances relating to electrical and plumbing installations , with the provisions of this ordinance and all other applicable City ordinances . Certificate of Occupancy and compliance shall be applied (for) to coincide with the application after the erection of structural alternation of such building shall have been ��+ completed in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance and the laws and ordinances above mentioned. A record of all certificates shall be � kept on file in the office of the Building Official and copies shall be furnished on request to persons having a proprietary or tenancy interest in the building or land affected. " Section 2 . Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed Two Thousand Dollars ($2 ,000 .00) for each offense and a separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which an offense occurs or continues. Section 3 . If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereto any person or circumstances is held invalid or unconstitutional by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance; and the City Council hereby declares it would have passed such remaining portions of the ordinance despite such invalidity, which remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. � Section 4 . The fact that the present ordinances and regulations of the City of Grapevine, Texas, are inadequate to �, .x properly safeguard the health, safety, morals, peace, and general welfare of the public creates an emergency which requires that this ordinance become effective from and after the date of its passage, and it is accordingly so ordained. PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS on this the 15th day of November , 1988 . APPROVED: Mayor ATTEST: ;.4��...,..{ Cit Secretar APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Attorney EXHIBIT "A" TO ORDINANCE NO. 88-81 -- Section 42. Supple�ntaiy District Requlation. � - A. Z�T4PORARY USES: 1. The follawing uses, which are classified as teniporary uses, may be permitted by the City Council in any distsict not to exceed a period of thirty (30) days except for (g) which shall be issued for a period of one year or less, subject to campliance with all other applicable city ordinances: a_ , (a) Carnivals. ' �� (b) Circus. � � _�.._ . . (c) Fairgrounds. (d) Religious assemblies. (e) Sports events. (f) Political rallies. (g) Concrete mixing or batching plant uses tet�porarily by - contractors during the construction of public in�roverents of buildings, and in such cases, the period C of time for which the use is granted may be_ for a period of time provided in the contract for ca�letion of such _ public improvement or building, providing such te��porary use is renewed annually. � (h) Armed forces displays. (i) Educational displays. (j) Te.�orary sales of inexchandise by nonprofit organizations. 2. A t��orary use shall not be pern�utted nearer than tw� hundred n fifty (250) feet to a residentially zoned district Pxcept for (g) which shall not be located closer than one thousand (1,0001 feet to a de��eloped residentially zaned district. .r . 3. Use of a parcel of property for any of the abave listed uses at any t�me on any day shall constitute a day's use. Use of a � parcel of property for any of the above listed uses for nnre than thirty (30) days except for concrete mixing or batching plants, during any one year- shall constitute a pern�anent.,use and such parcel or pmperty shall autanatically again be subject to the district regulation of the zoning district in which such parcel of property is located. � ' 4. Pernnission may be granted for a period not to exceed seven (7) . days by the City Manager as a special privilege to civic =-organizations and other nonprofit organizations to allow ( t�nporary uses (a) , (b) , (c) , (d) , (e) , (h) , (i) , and (j) `� � which shall not be located closer than sixty (60) feet to a residentially zoned district. 5. Permission may be granted for a period not to exceed forty (40) days by the Director of Camrninity Develapment, to allow Christinas tree sales lots in all non-residential zoning �«�r� districts. 6. A building, electrical and/or pl�nbing permit, where determined applicable by tl�e Director of Co�rnznity Develogrent, for any te�orary us� approved under this Section ;,,.,.:� 42 shall be obtained frcm theo,Building Inspection Departn�ent prior to cc�mencement of such"use. Section 60 and all other ' provisions of this ordinance td�tennined to be applicable by the Director of Commu�iity Dev� �gne.nt shall be ccmplied with prior to the ccamtencement of a�.y appraved t�►porary use.