(a) Scenic preservation areas established. The following scenic preservation areas are hereby established based on their scenic, cultural, architectural or historic character. Generalized maps of these areas appear in Appendix B. For official maps of the districts, please contact the planning and development department. (See §§ 2.102 and 6.413(b).)
(1) Fort Worth stockyards national register historic district;
(2) Central business district scenic preservation area;
(3) Cultural district scenic preservation area;
(4) Medical district scenic preservation area;
(5) Fairmount/Southside historic district;
(6) Elizabeth Boulevard national register historic district;
(7) Circle Park conservation district;
(8) Grand Avenue national register historic district;
(9) Masonic widows orphans home historic district; and
(10) Kenwood Court historic district.
(b) Scenic preservation area boundaries. All scenic preservation area boundary lines shall be measured to the centerlines of all public or railroad rights-of-way bordering the areas.
(c) Scenic preservation corridors established. In addition to the areas established above, the following scenic preservation corridors are designated based on their scenic, cultural, architectural or historic character. (See Chapter 3, Article 5 and § 6.413(b)).
(1) Arterial scenic corridors. Arterial scenic corridors shall be measured 200 feet from each side of the public right-of-way of the following roadways:
a. North Main Street from the historic stockyards to downtown;
b. Lancaster Avenue from Camp Bowie Boulevard to South Beach Street;
c. University Drive/North Side Drive/Oakhurst Scenic Drive from Granbury Road to Belknap Street;
d. Camp Bowie Boulevard from University Drive to I-30 (West Freeway);
e. Hemphill Street from Allen Avenue south to Felix Street;
f. Jacksboro Highway from Lake Worth (100-year floodplain, 600 feet elevation above sea level) to the southerly end of Nine Mile Bridge Road and from 500 feet north of the Municipal Golf Course to North Side Drive;
g. Randol Mill Road/1st Street from Haltom Road east to Bridgewood Drive and from 0.25 miles east of Loop 820 East to John T. White Road;
h. East Berry Street from Mitchell Boulevard to Old Mansfield Highway;
i. South Hulen Street from Vickery Boulevard south to Loop 820 South;
j. Bryant Irvin Road from Vickery Boulevard south to Oakmont Boulevard;
k. Angle Avenue/Marine Creek Parkway from Loop 820 West (Jim Wright Freeway) to Northwest 28th Street;
l. Evans Avenue from Terrell Avenue to East Berry Street;
m. Horne Street from I-30 to Vickery Boulevard;
n. Amanda Avenue from Ramey Street to East Rosedale Street;
o. South Riverside Drive from I-30 (East Freeway) to Wichita Street;
p. 4th Street from Downtown to South Riverside Drive;
q. East and West Rosedale from University Drive to Loop 820 East;
r. Seminary Drive from I-35W (South Freeway) to Wichita Street;
s. Vickery Boulevard from I-35W (South Freeway) to South Ayers Avenue;
t. White Settlement Road from University Drive to the city limits of Westworth Village; and
u. Trinity Railway Express corridor from the east Fort Worth city limit line west to Downtown.
(2) Freeway scenic corridors. Freeway scenic preservation corridors shall be measured 660 feet from each side of the public right-of-way of the following roadways:
a. I-35W (North Freeway) from 28th Street exit south to the centerline of the Trinity River;
b. I-30 (East Freeway) from Downtown east to Loop 820 East;
c. U.S. Hwy. 287 (Martin Luther King Freeway) from downtown southeast to Village Creek Road;
d. Loop 820 West (Jim Wright Freeway) from .25 miles north to .25 miles south of Lake Worth (100-year floodplain, 600 feet elevation above sea level);
e. Loop 820 East from .25 miles north of the first bridge abutment north of Mosier Lake to the southerly boundary of the 100-year floodplain of the West Fork of the Trinity River (approximately 150 feet); and
f. S.H. 121 (Chisholm Trail Parkway) from I-30 downtown to the southerly boundary of the city limits.
(3) Future scenic corridors. It is the intent of this section that in the event Jacksboro Highway (U.S. Hwy. 199) is widened, the width of the scenic corridor along Jacksboro Highway shall be increased to 660 feet wide from each side of the final alignment of the public right-of-way, after notice and hearing in accordance with § 2.102.
(d) Scenic preservation corridor boundaries. When a corridor designated under this section ends at an intersection with a right-of-way that is not designated as part of a corridor, the corridor shall terminate at the centerline of the non-designated right-of-way.
(Ord. 17872-11-2007, § 1, passed 11-6-2007; Ord. 21271-06-2014, § 1, passed 6-3-2014)