1976-039AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE (ORDINANCE NO 69-1)
OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEX/~ BY PERMITTING LICENSED PRIVATE CLUBS
IN CERTAIN ZONING DISTRICTS, PROVIDING FOR CONDITIONS, PROVIDING
A PENALTY, AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS, HEREBY ORDAINS
SECTION I
(1) That the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas
adopted January 14, 1969, as an appendix to the Code of Ordinances
of the Clty of Denton, Texas as Ordlnance No 69-1, as amended,
be, and the same ls hereby amended as follows
"ARTICLE VII USE OF REGULATION DISTRICTS, USE OF LAND
AND BUILDINGS
A Legend for ~nterpretlng schedule of use
1 The Tables in 7C shall be amended to exclude the
llstlng of "licensed private club"
2 The Tables in 7H shall be amended to include
"l~censed private club" ~n the following dlstrlcts
General Retall Service D~str~ct (GR)
Commercial District (C)
Central Business D~str~ct (CB)
L~ght Industrial District (LI)
Heavy Industrial District (HI)
Planned Development District (PD)
(2) 7B CONDITIONS REGARDING LICENSED PRIVATE CLUBS
The operation of licensed private clubs will be permissible
in the zoning dlstrlcts llsted ~n (1) A 2 above only upon the
following conditions
(a) A bulldlng utilized for the l~censed private club shall
be inspected and shall comply with all local building codes, f~re
codes, and ordinances
(b) All sales and consumption must be within the establish-
ment or an an area immediately adjacent to the building and not
visible from any public street or way
(c) Paved parklng must be provided on the property or ~m-
mediately adjacent to the site at the ratio of one space for every
three seats under maximum seating arrangment (m~n~mum of f~ve park-
lng spaces)
(d) A licensed private club may not operate within three
(300) hundred feet of any church, public hospital, or public school,
except North Texas State University and Texas Woman's University
(e) A licensed private club may not operate within one (100)
hundred feet of any residential dwelling unit 'Residential Dwell-
lng Unit' for the purpose of thls condition shall mean any single-
family, two-famlly, or multl-famlly dwelllng The Measurement shall
be taken as the most d~rect distance between the residential dwell-
lng unit and the bulldlng used for the licensed private club
(f) Where the buslness property serving as the site of a
licensed prlvate club abuts a residential property or zoning dis-
trict, a solid fence at least slx feet high shall be erected for
the full d~stance between the two properties
SECTION II
Any person v~olatlng thls article shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided by the
Texas Llquor Control Act, in the event it should be held that such
penalty does not apply to this article, then such persons shall be
f~ned not less than One Hundred ($100 00) Dollars nor more than
Two Hundred ($200 00) Dollars and each day of such violation shall
constitute a separate offense
SECTION III
That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause,
phrase or word in this ordlnance, or application thereof to any
person or circumstances ls held lnvalld by any court of competent
~urlsdlctlon, such holdlng shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance, and the C~ty Council of the
City of Denton, Texas, hereby declares it would have enacted such
remaining portions despite any such invalidity
SECTION IV
That the City Council of the C~ty of Denton, Texas, hereby
finds that such changes are in accordance with a comprehensive
plan for the purpose of promotlng the general welfare of the C~ty
of Denton, Texas, and w~th reasonable consideration, encourages
the most appropriate uses of land for the maxlm%um benefit to the
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City of Denton, Texas, and its citizens
SECTION V
That thls ordlnance shall be in full force and effect
mediately after its passage and approval, the required public
hearings having heretofore been held by the Planning and Zoning
Commission and the C~ty Council of the C~ty of Denton, Texas,
after g~v~ng due notlce thereof
PASSED and APPROVED th~s the ~'~'day of September, A D
1976
ELINOR HUGHES ,
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
ATTEST
~O~KS HOLT, CITY SECRETARY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM
PAUL C ISHAM, CITY ATTORNEY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
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