Ordinance 1997-08 ORDINANCE NO. � / �" �
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WYLIE, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING MULTI-
FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS; STATING A
PURPOSE; PROVIDING DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS; PROVIDING A PENALTY
CLAUSE; AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE (ORDINANCE
NO. 85-23A); REPEALING ALL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; CONTAINING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE
WHEREAS, there currently exists Multi-Family Residential District Regulations,
Section 14 of the Wylie Zoning Ordinance adopted May 5, 1985 (Ordinance 85-23A);
and
WHEREAS, there currently exists Multi-Family Development Standards contained
within Article XIII, Section 22-479 of the Wylie Code of Ordinances; and
WHEREAS, the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council has deemed
necessary and appropriate to direct City Staff to review and amend said Multi-Family
Residential District Regulations and said Multi-Family Development Standards; and
WHEREAS, the Planning and Zoning Commission, after first having given all
requisite notices, by publication and otherwise, and conducting all requisite hearings
thereon, has recommended to the City Council that the proposed Multi-Family
Residential District Regulations be adopted; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has heretofore conducted a public hearing on the
proposed Multi-Family Residential District Regulations and determined that the
Regulations should be adopted;
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined, in its legislative capacity, that the
proposed changes are appropriate and in the best interest of the orderly development
of the City in that it is based on recognition of changed or changing conditions or
circumstances in the locality and/or recognizes changes in technology, the style of
living, or manner of doing business, as required by Section 35.1 of the Comprehensive
Zoning Ordinance and therefore not in derogation of any of the purposes therein
expressed;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WYLIE, TEXAS, as follows:
SECTION I
That the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance contained within the Wylie Code of
Ordinances be, and hereby is, amended so as to replace Section 14, Wylie Zoning
Ordinance, Multi-Family Residential District Regulations.
SECTION II
° That Article XIII, Section 22-479 of the City of Wylie Code of Ordinances, as described
in Ordinance 87-3 be, and hereby is, amended to delete the word Multi-Family from
Section 5(Standards for Development) of said Ordinance 87-3.
SECTION III
This Ordinance shall be known as the Multi-Family Residential District Regulations,
Section 14 of the Wylie Zoning Ordinance and is applicable to all Multi-Family
Dwellings as defined by said Zoning Ordinance.
SECTION IV
Purpose - The MF, Multiple Family Dwelling District is established to provide adequate
space and site diversification for multiple-family apartment, nursing and convalescent
homes, boarding or rooming houses and garden apartment developments where the
maximum density does not exceed fifteen dwelling units per gross acre. The MF
District should be characterized by landscaping and open space and shall be
convenient to major thoroughfares and arterial streets. Such districts should have
adequate water, sewer and drainage facilities.
SECTION V
Standards for development - All Multi-Family structures constructed after the effective
date of this Ordinances shall meet the following development standards:
(A.) Use Regulations: A building or premise in the MF District shall be used only for
the following purposes:
1. Multi-Family Dwelling (apartment building)
2. Nursing and convalescent homes
3. Accessory buildings and uses, customarily incidental to the above uses and located
on the same lot therewith, not involving the conduct of a retail business.
The following specific uses when granted in accordance with Section 22:
1. Batching plant (temporary, during development)
2. Cemetery or mausoleum
3. Charitable organization
4. University, college or parochial school and related facilities (public or private)
5. Country Club or golf course and related uses such as driving ranges but not
including similar forms of commercial amusement such as miniature golf.
6. Day nursery, day camp or child care center
7. Electric substation
8. Museum, library or art gallery
9. Post office
10. Radio, television or microwave tower
11. Golf Course, public
12. Private club
(B.) Height Regulations: No building shall exceed 3 stories, 40 feet maximum. When
buildings exceed one story in height, an automatic sprinkler system shall be installed in
accordance with existing fire codes and each unit shall have two points of entry or exit
(as approved by the Fire Chief) each providing separate access to a place of safety
during an emergency or fire.
(C.) Area Regulations:
1. Size of Yards:
a. Depth of front yard - 30 feet minimum
b. Depth of side yard - 20 feet minimum
c. Depth of rear yard - 25 feet minimum
d. Buffer Area: Whenever a MF District is located adjacent to an existing or zoned
residential district or lower density development, without any division such as a
dedicated public street, park or permanent open space, all structures shall be set
back a minimum of 60 feet from the adjoining property line.
The setback area shall contain appropriate landscape improvements, fencing
beams or trees to adequately buffer adjoining uses as approved by the Director.
2. Size of Lot:
a. Lot Area: Lots for any permitted use shall have a minimum area of one acre
(43, 560 sq. ft. )
b. Width of lot - 100 feet minimum
c. Depth of lot - 120 feet minimum
3. Minimum Dwelling Size:
a. Efficiency unit - 600 sq.ft.
b. One bedroom unit - 750 sq.ft.
c. Two bedroom unit - 900 sq. ft.
d. Three bedroom unit - 1,000 sq.ft.
e. Units containing a minimum of 600 sq.ft. to 750 sq.ft.. shall not exceed fifteen
(15) percent of the total number of units in the development.
4. Lot Coverage: The combined area occupied by all main and accessory buildings
and structures shall not exceed forty-five (45) percent of the total lot area.
5. Building Separation: The minimum distance between any two unattached buildings
shall be 20 feet or the height of the building, whichever is greater. Whenever two
principal structures are arranged face to face or back to back, the minimum distance
shall be 50 feet. The point of ineasurement shall be the exterior walls of the buildings
and does not include balconies, railings or other architectural features.
(D.) Minimum Open Space: Not less than twenty-five (25) percent of the gross site
area shall be devoted to open space, including required yards and buffer areas. Open
space shall not include areas covered by structures, parking areas, driveways and
internal streets.
A portion of the minimum open space equivalent to two hundred fifty (250) square feet
per dwelling unit shall be devoted to planned and permanent usable recreation areas.
The amount, location and type of usable recreation space shall be shown on the site
plan.
(E.) Parking Regulations: Two and one-half (2.5) spaces for each dwelling unit.
Required parking may not occur within the front yard. Off-street parking spaces shall
be provided in accordance with the requirements for specific uses set forth in Section
24 of the Wylie Zoning Ordinance.
(F.) Refuse Facilities: Every dwelling unit shall be located within 250 feet of a refuse
facility, measured along the designed pedestrian and vehicular travel way. There shall
be available at all times at least six cubic yards of refuse container per thirty multi-
family dwelling units. For complexes with less than thirty units, no less than four cubic
yards shall be provided. Each refuse facility shall be screened from view on three
sides from persons standing at ground level on the site or immediately adjoining
property by an opaque fence or wall of wood or masonry not less than six feet, no more
than eight feet in height or by an enclosure within a building. Refuse containers shall
be provided and maintained in a manner to satisfy local public health and sanitary
regulations. Each refuse facility shall be located so as to provide safe and convenient
pickup by refuse collection agencies.
(G.) Border Fencing: Perimeter fencing of wood or masonry construction, not less than
six feet high, shall be installed, along the property line on any perimeter not abutting a
public street or right-of-way at the time of construction by the builder and maintained
throughout the existence of the multi-family unit by the owner/operator of the multi-
family unit.
(H.) Landscape Requirements: No application for a building permit for construction of a
principal building shall be approved without the submittal and approval of a landscape
plan.
1. Landscape plan shall include but may not be limited to the following:
a. Scale of 1 inch = 50 feet
b. Plant location
c. Plants preserved
d. Species
e. Size
f. Spacing
g. Layout and description of irrigation
h. Maintenance provision
i. Persons responsible for landscape plan preparation
2. Landscaping requirements include the following:
a. 15% of open space, 50% of which must be located in front
b. Planting requirements: The following plants shall be required within the
landscape areas at the ratios indicated.
1. 1 large tree per 600 sq.ft.
2. 1 small tree per 300 sq.ft.
3. 1 shrub per 60 sq.ft.
4. Ground cover - 10% of required area
SECTION VI
Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance, or any part hereof, commits an
unlawful act and shall be subject to the general penalty provisions of Section 37 of the
Zoning Ordinance, as the same now exists or is hereafter amended.
SECTION VII
Should any paragraph, sentence, sub-division, clause, phrase or section of this
ordinance be adjudged or held to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid the same shall
not affect the validity of this ordinance as a whole or any part or provision thereof, other
than the part or parts as declared to be invalid, illegal, or unconstitutional.
SECTION VIII
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its adoption by the City
Council and publication of its caption as the law and the City Charter provide in such
cases.
SECTION IX
That all other ordinances and code provisions in conflict herewith are hereby repealed
to the extent of any such conflict or inconsistency and all other provisions of
the Wylie City Code not in conflict herewith shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION X
The repeal of any ordinance, or parts thereof, by the enactment of this Ordinance, shall
not be construed as abandoning any action now pending under or by virtue of such
ordinance; nor shall it have the effect of discontinuing, abating, modifying or altering
any penalty accruing or to accrue, nor as effecting any rights of the municipality under
any section or provisions of any ordinances at the time of passage of this ordinance.
DULY PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Wylie, Texas,
this �_ day of , 1997.
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By
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James D. Swartz, Mayor
ATT�ST'� ��� " �
� usan Shuler, C y Secretary
Date Published in the Wylie News: ���� ���
THE WYLIE NEWS P.O. Box 369 Wylte, Texas 75098
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF COLLIN
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appea�ed Chad Engbrock, of THE WYLIE
NEWS, a newspaper regularly published in Collin County, Texas and having general circulation in Collin
County, Texas, who being by me duly sworn deposed and says that the forgoing attached
CITy U� UIyL1� - OR�INANC� N� 97-8
, 1997 and ,1997.
Ch d Engbrock
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this the /� day of Q , 1997
to certify which witness my hand and seal of office.
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Serving Wideawake Wylie Since 1947
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URDINANCE A10. 97-8
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY
OF WYLIE, TEXAS, ESTAB-
LISHING MULTI-FAMILY RESI-
DENTIAL DISTRICT DEVELOP-
MEN'f STANDARDS; STATING
A PURPOSE; PROVIDING
DEVELOPMENTSTANDARDS;
PROVIDING A PENALTY
CLAUS�; AMENDING THE
COMPREHENSIVE ZqNING
ORDINANCE (ORDINANCE NO.
85-23A); REPEAI..ING ALL. CON-
FLICfING ORDINANCES; GON-
TAINING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; AND �tOVII?ING FOR
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
CITY OF WYLIE
Susan Shuler
City Secretary 46-1t-339