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CITY OF DALLAS, TEXAS CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHARTER of THE CITY OF DALLAS, TEXAS
VOLUME I
VOLUME II
VOLUME III
CHAPTER 51A DALLAS DEVELOPMENT CODE: ORDINANCE NO. 19455, AS AMENDED
ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
ARTICLE II. INTERPRETATIONS AND DEFINITIONS.
ARTICLE III. DECISIONMAKING AND ADMINISTRATIVE BODIES.
ARTICLE IV. ZONING REGULATIONS.
ARTICLE V. FLOODPLAIN AND ESCARPMENT ZONE REGULATIONS.
ARTICLE VI. ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.
ARTICLE VII. SIGN REGULATIONS.
Division 51A-7.100. Purposes and Definitions.
Division 51A-7.200. Provisions For All Zoning Districts.
Division 51A-7.300. Provisions For Business Zoning Districts.
Division 51A-7.400. Provisions for Non-Business Zoning Districts.
Division 51A-7.500. Special Provision Sign Districts.
Division 51A-7.600. Permit Procedures.
Division 51A-7.700. Non-Conformance and Enforcement Procedures.
Division 51A-7.800. Procedure For Changes and Amendments.
Division 51A-7.900. Downtown Special Provision Sign District.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR SIGNS WITHIN THE GENERAL CBD, MAIN STREET, CONVENTION CENTER, RETAIL, DISCOVERY, AND CHASE TOWER SUBDISTRICTS.
Division 51A-7.1000. West End Historic Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1100. Provisions for Uptown Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1200. Provisions for Arts District Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1300. Provisions for Deep Ellum/Near East Side Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1400. Jefferson Boulevard Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1500. Provisions for McKinney Avenue Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1600. Farmers Market Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1700. Provisions for Victory Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1800. Provisions for Southside Entertainment Sign District.
Division 51A-7.1900. Provisions for West Village Sign District.
Division 51A-7.2000. Provisions for the West Commerce Street/Fort Worth Avenue Sign District.
Division 51A-7.2100. Provisions for the Arts District Extension Area Sign District.
Division 51A-7.2200. Parkland Hospital Sign District.
Division 51A-7.2300. Southwestern Medical District Sign District.
ARTICLE VIII. PLAT REGULATIONS.
ARTICLE IX. THOROUGHFARES.
ARTICLE X. LANDSCAPE AND TREE CONSERVATION REGULATIONS.
ARTICLE XI. HISTORIC PRESERVATION TAX EXEMPTIONS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES FOR HISTORIC PROPERTIES.
ARTICLE XII. GAS DRILLING AND PRODUCTION.
ARTICLE XIII. FORM DISTRICTS.
CHAPTER 51 FORMER DALLAS DEVELOPMENT CODE
CODE COMPARATIVE TABLE
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Division 51A-7.1600. Farmers Market Sign District.
SEC. 51A-7.1601.   DESIGNATION OF SIGN DISTRICT.
   A special provision sign district is hereby created to be known as the Farmers Market Sign District. The boundaries of the Farmers Market Sign District are the same as those of the Farmers Market Special Purpose District (Planned Development District No. 357). (Ord. Nos. 22097; 29233)
SEC. 51A-7.1601.1.   DESIGNATION OF SIGN SUBDISTRICTS.
   (a)   Camden Sign Subdistrict. The Camden Sign Subdistrict is that area of the Farmers Market Sign District within the following described boundaries:
      TRACT 1:
      BEING all of Lot 2B in City Block 40/164.
      TRACT 2:
      BEING all of Lot 1A in City Block 7/153.
      TRACT 3:
      BEING a tract of land situated in the John Grigsby Survey, Abstract No. 495, in the City of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas and being a portion of Blocks 142, 5/155/4/156, 36/168 and 37/167, a portion of a 200-foot-wide H. & T.C. Railroad right-of-way, a portion of a 150-foot-wide T. & N.O. Railroad spur right-of-way, all as dedicated on the Final Plat of Railroad Addition, an Addition to the City of Dallas according to the Map or Plat thereof recorded in Volume 4 at Page 350 of the Map Records of Dallas County, Texas, a portion of a 20- foot-wide alley situated in Block 4/156 abandoned in Ordinance No. 8234, a portion of St. Louis Street, Paris Street and a w-foot wide alley abandoned in Ordinance No. 11472, a portion of St. Louis Street and 20-foot-wide alleys situated in Blocks 36/168 and 37/167 abandoned Ordinance No. 1570 and a portion of Central Expressway as abandoned on Ordinance No. 23588, same being a portion of Tract “O” conveyed to Camden Property Trust as evidence by a Special Warranty Deed recorded in Volume 98040 at Page 02379 of the Deed Records of Dallas County, Texas (D.R.D.C.T.) and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows (bearing based on the southwest right-of-way line of Good-Latimer Expressway as described in Ordinance No. 21092, recorded in Volume 91249 at Page 4100 D.R.D.C.T., said bearing being North 36°50'46" West):
      BEGINNING at a nail found for the east corner of aforesaid Tract “O,” same being the north corner of a tract of land conveyed to Graybar Electric, Inc., as evidenced in a deed recorded in Volume 3502 at Page 282 D.R.D.C.T., said nail also being on the southwest right-of-way line of Good-Latimer Expressway (a variable width right-of-way);
      THENCE in a southwesterly direction, departing the southwest right-of-way line of said Good-Latimer Expressway and along the southwest line of said Tract “O,” the following:
      South 53°05'14" West, a distance of 219.11 feet to the point of curvature of a corner to the left;
      Along the arc of said curve to the left, through a central angle of 28°50'05", having a radius of 219.64 feet and an arc length of 111.05 feet to a 1/2-inch rod found for the end of said curve;
      South 36°29'26" East, a distance of 29.78 feet to a 1/2- inch rod found for corner;
      South 53°10'39" West, a distance of 424.89 feet to a corner;
      South 36°45'09" East, a distance of 93.67 feet to a corner;
      South 52°02'59" West, a distance of 350.00 feet to the south corner of said Tract “O,” same being on the northeast right-of-way line of Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway) (a variable width right-of-way);
      THENCE in a northwesterly direction, along the southwest line of said Tract “O” and the northeast right-of-way line of said Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway), the following:
      North 27°01'56" West, a distance of 201.55 feet to a chiseled cross found for the point of curvature of a curve to the left;
      Along the arc of said curve to the left, through a central angle of 68°13'29", having a radius of 67.00 feet and an arc length of 79.78 feet to the chiseled cross found for the end of said curve;
      North 24°20'27" West, a distance of 145.68 feet to a chiseled cross found for the point of curvature of a curve to the left;
      Along the arc of said curve through a central angle of 06°14'28", having a radius of 424.70 feet and an arc length of 46.26 feet to a chiseled cross found for the end of said curve;
      North 53°21'43" East, a distance of 93.54 feet to a 1/2- inch iron rod found for the point of curvature of a non-tangent curve to the left;
      Along the arc of said curve to the left, through a central angle of 06°50'22", having a radius of 1071.00 feet, a chord bearing of North 82°15'38" West, a chord distance of 127.77 feet and an arc length of 127.85 feet to a chiseled cross found for the end of said curve, same being the south corner of a portion of Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway) as abandoned by aforesaid Ordinance No. 23588, recorded in Volume 98187 at Page 061815 D.R.D.C.T.;
      THENCE North 36°50'27" West, along the southwest line of said abandonment, and along the current northwest right-of-way line of said Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway), a distance of 123.76 feet to the intersection of the northeast right-of-way line of said Cesar Chavez Boulevard (formerly Central Expressway) with the curving southeast right-of-way line of Marilla Street (a variable width right-of-way at this point) as described in a deed recorded in Volume 98183 at Page 05868 D.R.D.C.T., said curve being a curve to the right;
      THENCE in a northeasterly direction, along the southeast right-of-way line of said Marilla Street, the following:
      Along the arc of said curve to the right, through a central angle of 89°59'41", having a radius of 15.00 feet and an arc length of 23.56 feet to the point of tangency of said curve (Marilla Street being 58-foot-wide at this point);
      North 53°09'14" East, a distance of 434.59 feet to the intersection of the southeast right of-way line of said Marilla Street with the southwest right-of-way line of Farmers Market Way (a 58-foot-wide right-of-way);
      THENCE South 36°50'46" East, along the southwest right-of-way line of said Farmers Market Way, a distance of 127.50 feet to the intersection of the southwest right-of-way line of said Farmers Market Way with the southeast right-of-way line of Taylor Street (a 58-foot-wide right-of-way);
      THENCE North 53°09'14" East, along the southeast right-of-way line of said Taylor Street, a distance of 491.01 feet to the point of curvature of a curve to the right;
      THENCE in a easterly direction, continuing along the southeast right-of-way line of said Taylor Street and along the arc of said curve to the right, through a central angle of 90°00'00", having a radius of 15.00 feet and an arc length of 23.56 feet to the point of tangency of said curve, same being on the northeast line of said Tract "O," said corner also being the intersection of the southeast right-of-way line of said Taylor Street with the southwest right-of-way line of aforesaid Good-Latimer Expressway;
      THENCE South 39°14'11" East, along the northeast line of said Tract "O" and the southwest right-of-way line of said Good-Latimer Expressway, a distance of 411.92 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 11.534 acres of land, more or less.
   (b)   Market Center Sign Subdistrict. The Market Center Sign Subdistrict is that area of the Farmers Market Sign District within the following described boundaries:
      BEGINNING at the south corner of a corner clip in the northeast line of Harwood Street and the southwest line of City Block 131;
      THENCE North 08°36'06" East, along said corner clip, a distance of 40.00 feet to a point for corner in the south line of said Marilla Street, said point being the north corner of said corner clip;
      THENCE along the south line of Marilla Street the following calls;
      North 74°47'11" East, a distance of 142.30 feet to a point for corner;
      South 45°01'41" East, a distance of 1.11 feet to a point for corner;
      North 78°16'02" East, a distance of 192.25 feet to a point for corner;
      North 77°52'42" East, a distance of 87.67 feet to a point for corner;
      North 74°22'09" East, a distance of 373.33 feet to a point for corner, in the southwest line of South Cesar Chavez Boulevard (a variable width right-of-way);
      THENCE South 36°00'00" East, along the southwest line of said Cesar Chavez Boulevard, a distance of 601.81 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE South 32°25'25" East, a distance of 80.16 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE South 10°11'11" East, a distance of 220.32 feet to a point for corner in the south line of Gibson Street, abandoned by Ordinance;
      THENCE South 45°34'13" West, along the south line of said abandoned Gibson Street, a distance of 89.59 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE South 71°04'56" West, a distance of 431.66 feet to a point for corner in the northeast line of aforementioned Harwood Street;
      THENCE North 45°02'47" West, along the northeast line of said Harwood Street, a distance of 733.28 feet to a point for corner;
      THENCE North 45°01'41" West, continuing along the northeast line of said Harwood Street, a distance of 313.77 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 15.03 acres or 654,661 square feet of land, more or less. (Ord. Nos. 24424; 29233; 29557)
SEC. 51A-7.1602.   PURPOSE.
   The purpose of this division is to promote signage that is compatible with the architectural character and design guidelines of the Farmers Market Planned Development District while encouraging artistic, creative, and innovative signs that are reflective of themes that have grown and developed in Farmers Market area. (Ord. Nos. 22097; 29233)
SEC. 51A-7.1603.   DEFINITIONS.
   (a)   In this division:
      (1)   ARTWORK means any pictorial or image presentation or design.
      (2)   BANNER means a sign attached to or applied on a strip of cloth.
      (3)   CANOPY SIGN means a sign attached to or applied on a canopy or awning.
      (4)   DISTRICT IDENTIFICATION SIGN means an attached or detached sign identifying the Farmers Market.
      (5)   FLAT ATTACHED SIGN means an attached sign projecting 18 inches or less from a building and parallel to the building facade.
      (6)   KIOSK means a detached multi-sided structure for the display of premise and non-premise signs.
      (7)   MARQUEE SIGN means a sign attached to, applied on, or supported by a permanent canopy projecting over a pedestrian street entrance of a building, and consisting primarily of changeable panels or words.
      (8)   MONUMENT SIGN means a detached premise sign applied directly onto a grade-level support structure (instead of a pole support) with no separation between the sign and the ground, or mounted on a fence or masonry wall.
      (9)   PROJECTING ATTACHED SIGN means an attached sign projecting 18 or more inches from a building.
      (10)   ROOF SIGN means a sign that is attached to or supported by the roof of a building constructed after December 11, 2013.
      (11)   SUPERGRAPHIC SIGN means a large attached premise or non-premise sign on a mesh or fabric surface, or a projection of light image onto a wall face without the use of lasers.
      (12)   THIS DISTRICT means the Farmers Market Sign District.
      (13)   VIDEOBOARD SIGN means a flat screen that is capable of displaying moving images similar to television images, by light-emitting diode or other similar technology and that is mounted to the exterior of a building.
      (14)   WINDOW SIGN means a sign painted or affixed onto a window.
   (b)   Except as otherwise provided in this section, the definitions in Sections 51A-2.102 and 51A-7.102 apply to this division. If there is a conflict, this section controls. (Ord. Nos. 22097; 29233)
SEC. 51A-7.1604.   SIGN PERMIT REQUIREMENTS.
   (a)   No person may alter, place, maintain, expand, or remove a sign in this district without first obtaining a sign permit from the city. This section does not apply to government signs described in Section 51A-7.207.
   (b)   Except as otherwise provided in this division, the procedure for obtaining a sign permit is outlined in Section 51A-7.505.
   (c)   Section 51A-7.602 does not apply to signs in this district. (Ord. Nos. 22097; 29233)
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