This table shows the location or gives the disposition of the ordinances within the Garland Development Code.
Ord. No.
Date
Description
Disposition
Supp. No.
6773
5/19/15
Adopts the Development Code
Chapters 17
 
6779
6/2/15
Adopts fee schedule of charges under the GDC
Rpld. by Ord. 7079
 
6876
12/13/16
Amends land use matrix, self-storage facility, requires SUP in LC district
§ 2.51, land use matrix
 
6881
2/7/17
Amends reasonable accommodations
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Applicability
 
 
 
§ 2 Appeals
 
6925
7/18/17
Amends self-storage facilities
 
 
 
 
Security
 
 
 
Removes marking requirement for a managers apartment
§ 2.51, land use matrix
 
 
 
Subdistrict; intown residential
 
 
 
Downtown framework plan
Ch. 7, app. A
 
 
 
Downtown district land use matrix
Table 7-1
 
6943
11/7/17
Amends GDC, pole signs; location
 
6944
11/21/17
Amends definition “coverage”
§ 6.03
 
6945
12/12/17
Amends zoning regulations, SUP appurtenant to the land
 
6979
4/17/18
Amends zoning regulations; breweries, wineries, distilleries
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Land use matrix
§ 2.51
 
 
 
§ 2 Special standards for certain uses
 
 
 
§ 3 Definition
§ 6.03
 
 
 
§ 4 Downtown district land use matrix; industrial use.
Table 7-1
 
7001
8/7/18
Amends zoning regulations; care of alcoholic, drug dependent or psychiatric patients, institutional
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Land use matrix
§ 2.51
 
 
 
§ 2 Definition
§ 6.03
 
7017
9/18/18
Amends various fees
 
 
 
 
§ 9 Planning fees
Rpld. by Ord. 7079
 
7040
2/19/19
Amends GDC, signs
 
 
 
 
Div. 1 - Purpose & Definitions
 
 
 
 
Legislative Findings; Interpretation; and General Matters
§ 4.62
 
 
 
Definitions
§ 4.63
 
 
 
Div. 2 - Administration & Procedures
 
 
 
 
Building Official Authority
§ 4.64
 
 
 
Sign Permit & Fees
§ 4.65
 
 
 
Inspections
§ 4.66
 
 
 
Exempt from Sign Permit
§ 4.67
 
 
 
Div. 3 - General Sign Provisions
 
 
 
 
General Regulations for All Districts
§ 4.68
 
 
 
Prohibited Signs
§ 4.69
 
 
 
Authorized Signs
§ 4.70
 
 
 
Residential Districts
§ 4.71
 
 
 
Existing Signs
§ 4.72
 
 
 
Digital Display on Nonconforming Off-Premises Signs
§ 4.73
 
 
 
Maintenance of Signs
§ 4.74
 
 
 
Sign Area
§ 4.75
 
 
 
Div. 4 - Sign Types & Related Regulations
 
 
 
 
Freestanding Sign Restrictions
§ 4.77
 
 
 
Signs - Permit Required
§ 4.78
 
 
 
Div. 6 - Variances; Appeals
 
 
 
 
Variances; Appeals
§ 4.81
 
7055
5/7/19
Amends GDC
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Technical review meeting
§ 1.21
 
 
 
§ 2 Pre-construction meeting
§ 1.22
 
 
 
§ 3
 
 
 
 
Article 3 - Fees
 
 
 
 
Div. 1 - General Provisions
 
 
 
 
Fees not exclusive
§ 1.40
 
 
 
Nonrefundable
§ 1.41
 
 
 
Div. 2 - Engineering Fees
 
 
 
 
Maps and Data Service Fees
§ 1.50
 
 
 
Engineering Review and Inspection Fees
§ 1.51
 
 
 
Temporary Water Service Fees
§ 1.52
 
 
 
Street Sign Fees
§ 1.53
 
 
 
Sidewalk Construction Permit Fee
§ 1.54
 
 
 
Div. 3 - Impact fees
 
 
 
 
Purpose
§ 1.70
 
 
 
Authority
§ 1.71
 
 
 
Definitions
§ 1.72
 
 
 
Applicability
§ 1.73
 
 
 
Impact Fee as a Condition of Development Approval
§ 1.74
 
 
 
Impact Fees Per Service Unit
§ 1.75
 
 
 
Assessment of Impact Fees
§ 1.76
 
 
 
Payment and Collection of Impact Fees
§ 1.77
 
 
 
Offsets and Credits Against Impact Fees
§ 1.78
 
 
 
Establishment of Accounts
§ 1.79
 
 
 
Appeals
§ 1.80
 
 
 
Refunds
§ 1.81
 
 
 
Updates to Plans and Revisions of Fees
§ 1.82
 
 
 
Functions of Capital Improvements Advisory Committee
§ 1.83
 
 
 
Development Agreements
§ 1.84
 
 
 
Exceptions and Exemptions
§ 1.85
 
 
 
Impact Fee as Additional and Supplemental Regulation
§ 1.86
 
 
 
Petition for Relief
§ 1.87
 
 
 
Impact Fee Schedule 1
§ 1.88
 
 
 
Impact Fee Schedule 2
§ 1.89
 
 
 
Garland Roadway Impact Fee Service Areas
§ 1.90
 
 
 
Garland Water System Service Area
§ 1.91
 
 
 
§ 4 Subdivision applicability
§ 3.01
 
 
 
§ 5 Exemptions
§ 3.03
 
 
 
§ 6 General application requirements and processing
§ 3.06
 
 
 
§ 7 Preliminary plat application and procedures
§ 3.08
 
 
 
§ 8 Final plat application and procedures
§ 3.15
 
 
 
§ 9 Minor plat purpose and applicability
§ 3.22
 
 
 
§ 10 Amending plat (administrative approval)
§ 3.40
 
 
 
§ 11 Adequate public facilities; general policies
§ 3.42
 
 
 
§ 12 Conformance to plans
§ 3.43
 
 
 
§ 13 Responsibilities of the developer
§ 3.45
 
 
 
§ 14 Timing and relief
§ 3.46
 
 
 
§ 15 Roadway participation - improvement of adjacent (perimeter) roads and utilities
§ 3.47
 
 
 
§ 16 Escrow deposit; amount and responsibility
 
 
 
§ 17 Pro rata charge established
§ 3.52
 
 
 
§ 18 Extension for property subdivided or platted for development - basis
§ 3.53
 
 
 
§ 19 Time limit on city’s obligation to refund charges
§ 3.57
 
 
 
§ 20 Schematic drainage plan review
§ 3.62
 
 
 
§ 21 Wastewater system requirements
§ 3.69
 
 
 
§ 22 General requirements
§ 3.74
 
 
 
§ 23 Requirements
§ 3.80
 
 
 
§ 24 Uniformity
§ 3.83
 
 
 
§ 25 Grading and drainage
§ 3.85
 
 
 
§ 26 Existing drainageways - development criteria
§ 3.86
 
 
 
§ 27 Storm sewers - general requirements
§ 3.87
 
 
 
§ 28 Stormwater detention and retention facilities
§ 3.89
 
 
 
§ 29 Easements
§ 3.90
 
 
 
§ 30 Monuments - minimum standards
§ 3.92
 
 
 
§ 31 Sidewalks in new developments
§ 3.93
 
 
 
§ 32 Application and procedures
§ 3.96
 
 
 
§ 33 Obligations of agreement
 
 
 
§ 34 Acceptance following construction
 
 
 
§ 35 Purpose and applicability
§ 4.08
 
 
 
§ 36 Effect of issuance
§ 4.10
 
 
 
§ 37 Issuance
§ 4.15
 
 
 
§ 38 Off-street parking requirements
§ 4.20
 
 
 
§ 39 Loading requirements
§ 4.22
 
 
 
§ 40 Setback requirements generally
 
7079
8/20/19
Amends various sections of the code
 
 
 
 
§ 7 Conflict in authority
 
 
 
§ 8 Types of applications reviewed
 
 
 
§ 9 Initiation of application
§ 1.14
 
 
 
§ 10 Pre-submittal process
Dltd. by Ord. 7524
 
 
 
§ 11 Repeals § 1.16 “complete application and expiration
§ 1.16, editor’s note
 
 
 
§ 12 Official submission date
§ 1.18
 
 
 
§ 13 Modification of applications
§ 1.19
 
 
 
§ 14 Amendments and revisions to approval
§ 1.20
 
 
 
§ 15 Technical review meeting
§ 1.21
 
 
 
§ 16 Reserves sections
NIC
 
 
 
§ 17 Planning and zoning fees
 
 
 
 
Fees
 
 
 
Refund policy for planning & zoning fees
 
 
 
§ 18 Zoning general provisions
§ 2.04
 
 
 
§ 19 Processing of zoning applications, plat, plan and dedication
§ 2.05
 
 
 
§ 20 Purpose, nature of district
 
 
 
§ 21 Consistency required
 
 
 
§ 22 Repeals § 2.11 “concept plan”
§ 2.11
 
 
 
§ 23 Contents of detail plan
 
 
 
§ 24 Approval process, conditions
 
 
 
§ 25 Adopting ordinance (1st paragraph)
§ 2.14
 
 
 
§ 26 Roofing materials
 
 
 
§ 27 Urban districts
§ 2.49
 
 
 
§ 28 Special standards for special uses
§ 2.52
 
 
 
§ 29 Accessory building regulations
 
 
 
§ 30 Carports, canopies and porte cocheres - residenital
§ 2.59
 
 
 
§ 31 Carports, canopies and porte cocheres - nonresidenital
§ 2.60(A)(1)—(4)
 
 
 
§ 32 Relationship between platting and zoning
 
 
 
§ 33 Replat without plat vacation
 
 
 
§ 34 Purpose and applicability
§ 4.05
 
 
 
§ 35 Administrative approval and alternative compliance
 
 
 
§ 36 Administrative approval of alternative compliance
 
 
 
§ 37 Multifamily developments, detached covered parking structures
 
 
 
§ 38 Design & screening of refuse containers
 
 
 
§ 39 Purpose, applicability; allowable materials
§ 4.82
 
 
 
§ 40 Nonresidential & multifamily building design
§ 4.83
 
 
 
§ 41 Residential design
 
 
 
§ 42 Allowed materials
§ 4.85
 
 
 
§ 43 Dormant projects
 
 
 
§ 44 Definitions
§ 6.03
 
 
 
§ 45 Building standards
§ 7.11
 
 
 
§ 46 Automobile parking
 
 
 
§ 47 Downtown development plan
 
 
 
§ 48 Regulating plan
 
 
 
§ 49 Definitions
§ 7.50
 
 
 
§ 50 Repeals ex. A fee schedule
Ex. A, editor’s note
 
7104
11/5/19
Amends GDC; makerspace (hackerspace)
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Definition
§ 6.3
 
 
 
§ 2 Land use matrix
§ 2.51, land use matrix
 
 
 
§ 3 Special standards for certain uses; makerspace (hackersapce)
 
7107
12/3/19
Amends various sections of the code
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Purpose
§ 1.05
 
 
 
§ 2 Types of applications reviewed
 
 
 
§ 3 Initiation of application
 
 
 
§ 4 Pre-filing process
Dltd. by Ord. 7524
 
 
 
§ 5 Waiver of information
§ 1.17
 
 
 
§ 6 Official submission date
§ 1.18
 
 
 
§ 7 Technical review meeting
 
 
 
§ 8 Application fees
§ 1.23
 
 
 
§ 9 Written notice
 
 
 
§ 10 Engineering review and inspection fees
 
 
 
§ 11 Fees
 
 
 
§ 12 Recycled materials/used goods collection point fees
 
 
 
§ 13 Development standards
 
 
 
§ 14 Adopting ordinance (first paragraph)
§ 2.14
 
 
 
§ 15 Documentation of PD districts
§ 2.16
 
 
 
§ 16 Criteria for approval
§ 2.21(A)(7), (D)(1)
 
 
 
§ 17 Board of adjustment
§ 2.22(C)(1), (E)(7)
 
 
 
§ 18 Single-family residential district standards
Table 2-3
 
 
 
§ 19 Regulations applicable to all residential districts
§ 2.34
 
 
 
§ 20 Illustration zero-lot-line homes - setbacks, orientation
§ 2.36, ill. 2-6
 
 
 
§ 21 SFA district
§ 2.37
 
 
 
§ 22 MF district; residential types other than multifamily
 
 
 
§ 23 Nonresidential district standards
§ 2.41, table 2-5
 
 
 
§ 24 Regulations applicable to all nonresidential districts
§ 2.41
 
 
 
§ 25 Urban districts
§ 2.49(H)(5)(f), (I)(5)
 
 
 
§ 26 Land use matrix
 
 
 
 
§ 27 Special standards for certain uses
§ 2.52
 
 
 
§ 28 Regulation of distances
 
 
 
§ 29 Accessory building regulations
§ 2.58
 
 
 
§ 30 Carports, canopies, and porte cocheres - residential
 
 
 
§ 31 Nonresidential and mixed use districts
 
 
 
§ 32 Nonconforming lots
 
 
 
§ 33 Building lines and setback
 
 
 
§ 34 Continuance of nonconformities
 
 
 
§ 35 Nonconforming use expansion outside of a structure; beyond lot
 
 
 
§ 36 Changing to a conforming use
 
 
 
§ 37 Time for decision on plats
 
 
 
§ 38 General application; prefiling meeting
 
 
 
§ 39 Applications and procedures
 
 
 
§ 40 Action by plan commission
 
 
 
§ 41 Criteria for approval
§ 3.17
 
 
 
§ 42 Submittal of final plat where improvements have been installed
 
 
 
§ 43 Final plat required for permits and services
 
 
 
§ 44 Construction management
 
 
 
§ 45 Timing and relief
 
 
 
§ 46 Schematic drainage plan review
§ 3.62
 
 
 
§ 47 Requirements waiver
 
 
 
§ 48 Existing drainageways - development criteria
§ 3.86
 
 
 
§ 49 Stormwater detention and retention facilities
§ 3.89
 
 
 
§ 50 Waiver or alteration by plan commission
§ 3.93(F)(2), (4)
 
 
 
§ 51 Repeals and deletes preliminary development plan
Ch. 4, art. 1, div. 1, ed. note
 
 
 
§ 52 Purpose and applicability
 
 
 
§ 53 Site permit issuance
 
 
 
§ 54 Building permit issuance
 
 
 
§ 55 Effect of issuance
 
 
 
§ 56 Applicability
§ 4.18
 
 
 
§ 57 Plan submission and approval
§ 4.19
 
 
 
§ 58 Off-street parking requirements
 
 
 
§ 59 Driveway standards
§ 4.21
 
 
 
§ 60 Granting or denying request for alternative compliance
 
 
 
§ 61 Applicability and exceptions
§ 4.29
 
 
 
§ 62 Protected tree definition
 
 
 
§ 63 General landscaping standards
 
 
 
§ 64 Landscape buffers
§ 4.34
 
 
 
§ 65 Perimeter screening
 
 
 
§ 66 Perimeter screening
 
 
 
§ 67 Location and screening of light vehicle and forklift loading areas
§ 4.42
 
 
 
§ 68 Design and screening for refuse
§ 4.45
 
 
 
containers
 
 
 
 
§ 69 Design and screening for refuse containers
§ 4.45, ill. 4-2
 
 
 
§ 70 Development variances
§ 4.53
 
 
 
§ 71 Tree preservation; applicability and exemptions
 
 
 
§ 72 Tree inventory definition
 
 
 
§ 73 Tree management plan required
 
 
 
§ 74 Existing trees, replacement ratio
§ 4.58, table 4-9
 
 
 
§ 75 Signs, residential districts
 
 
 
§ 76 Sign face exchange ratio
 
 
 
§ 77 Variances; appeals
 
 
 
§ 78 Building materials and design
 
 
 
§ 79 Residential design standards
 
 
 
§ 80 Setback requirements generally
 
 
 
§ 81 Gates required
 
 
 
§ 82 Development variances
 
 
 
§ 83 Initial decision-makers and appellate decision makers
§ 5.02, table 5-1
 
 
 
§ 84 Initial permit definition
 
 
 
§ 85 Recycling/used goods collection points - kiosks, containers and trailers
 
 
 
 
Application
§ 5.26
 
 
 
Missing or invalid permits
§ 5.27
 
 
 
§ 86 Various definitions
§ 6.03
 
 
 
§ 87 Downtown district land use matrix
Table 7-1
 
 
 
§ 88 Sub-district building types
Table 7-4
 
 
 
§ 89 Downtown development plan
 
 
 
§ 90 Downtown district definitions
§ 7.50
 
7138
4/7/20
Amends zoning
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Special standards; residential buildings
 
 
 
§ 2 Land use matrix, churches or places of worship; parking
§ 2.51, land use matrix
 
 
 
§ 3 Downtown land use matrix
Table 7-1
 
7142
5/5/20
Amends land use matrix
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Retail store; commercial amusement, indoor
§ 2.51, land use matrix
 
 
 
§ 2 Downtown retail store; commercial amusement, indoor
Table 7-1
 
7176
9/15/20
Amends zoning
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Multifamily district
§ 2.39
 
 
 
§ 2 Special requirements; elder care living; building design
§ 2.52(A)(12)(e)(ii)
 
 
 
§ 3 Definitions
§ 6.03
 
 
 
§ 4 DT land and building use
§ 7.06
 
7196
2/2/21
Amends signs
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Definitions
 
 
 
§ 2 Deletes definitions
 
 
 
§ 3 Prohibited signs
§ 4.69(B), (K)
 
 
 
§ 4 Conversion of billboards to digital billboards
§ 4.73
 
 
 
§ 5 Signs - permit required; programmable signs
 
 
 
§ 6 Published & written notice
 
7208
3/16/21
Amends zoning; home occupations and related prohibited activities in residential zoning districts
§ 2.61
 
7229
6/22/21
Historic signs regulations
§ 4.79
 
7252
9/14/21
Amends fees for various services
 
 
 
 
§ 14 Planning and zoning fees
 
 
 
§ 15 Refund policy for planning and zoning fees
 
 
 
§ 16 Engineering review and inspection fees
 
7259
10/12/21
Amends zoning; consideration of previously denied amendments
 
7261
10/12/21
Amends downtown district
 
 
 
 
§ 1 DS sub-district
 
 
 
§ 2 Assembly halls located in DS
 
 
 
§ 3 Downtown district land use matrix
Table 7-1
 
 
 
§ 4 Block face intent
 
 
 
§ 5 Street and build-to zone standards
§ 7.08, table 7-2
 
 
 
§ 6 Sub-district building height standards
§ 7.11, table 7-3
 
 
 
§ 7 Sub-district building types
§ 7.11, table 7-4
 
 
 
§ 8 Street tree wells in the public sidewalk
 
 
 
§ 9 Downtown framework plan
Ch. 7, app. A
 
7276
12/7/21
Amends site development; administrative approval of alternative compliance
 
7280
1/4/22
Sanitation services
 
 
 
 
§ 13 Director of sanitation department
§ 1.11(A)(6)
 
7323
5/3/22
Amends GDC,
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Land use matrix
§ 2.51, land use matrix
 
 
 
§ 2 Multifamily development
 
 
 
§ 3 Districts allowed
§ 2.64
 
7344
7/5/22
Amend GDC
 
 
 
 
§ 1 MF district
§ 2.39
 
 
 
§ 2 Other residential standards
§ 2.34, table 2-4
 
 
 
§ 3 UR and UB district; use integration
 
 
 
§ 4 Land use matrix
§ 2.51, land use matrix
 
7352
8/16/22
Amends development code
 
 
 
 
§ 1 Special standards, mobile food trucks
§ 2.52
 
 
 
§ 2 Definition
§ 6.03
 
 
 
§ 3 Downtown district land use matrix
§ 7.06, table 7-1
 
 
 
§ 4 Land use matrix
§ 2.51, land use matrix
 
7370
10/11/2022
Amends Zoning Regulations: Zoning Procedures Amendment; Use Regulations
Ch. 2
7371
10/11/2022
Amends Zoning Regulations; Site Development; Downtown District
Ch,. 2; Ch. 4; Ch. 7
7378
10/18/2022
Amends Zoning Regulations: Use Regulations: Land Use Matrix
Ch. 2
7404
2/21/2023
Amends Site Development:
Ch. 4
1
7405
2/21/2023
Amends Zoning Regulations; Definitions
Ch. 2; Ch. 6
1
7407
3/7/2023
Amends Site Development: Municipal Setting Designations
Ch. 4
1
7417
3/4/2023
Amends General Provisions; Site Development:
Ch. 1; Ch. 4
2
7446
7/11/2023
Amends Downtown (DT) District: Definitions
Ch. 7
3
7457
8/15/2023
Amends Development Code: General Provisions; Administration
Ch. 1; Ch. 10
3
7483
11/14/2023
Amends Zoning Regulations: Use Regulations
Ch. 2
4
7495
1/9/2024
Amends Zoning Regulations: Use Regulations; Amends Definitions
Ch. 2; Ch. 6
5
7497
1/9/2023
Amends Zoning Regulations; Amends Definitions; Amends Downtown (DT) District
Ch. 2; Ch. 6; Ch. 7
5
7511
3/5/2024
Amends Site Development
Ch. 4
5
7524
4/16/2024
Amends General Provisions; Zoning Regulations; Subdivision Regulations; Site Development; Relief Procedures & Enforcement; Downtown (DT) District
Ch. 1; Ch. 2; Ch. 3; Ch. 4; Ch. 5; Ch. 7
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