PD Amendment ZC-26-040

Context: ZC-26-040 was continued from May 12 to June 9, 2026 and adopted 11-0 on June 9 with Council Member Hall moving and Council Member Crain seconding; Texas courts have invalidated zoning adoptions where continuation notices were defective.

Recommended: If you represent a party who appeared or was noticed for the May 12 hearing, confirm they received separate notice for the June 9 continuation — a failure to re-notify affected parties is a procedural defect that can void the adoption — and calculate whether the window to file a judicial challenge to the June 9 adoption is still open.

Context: Fort Worth City Council adopted both ZC-26-040 and a citywide ordinance opening every commercial district to multifamily and mixed-use residential on June 9, 2026, creating a potential overlap in entitlements for corridor parcels.

Recommended: Pull the adopted ZC-26-040 ordinance to confirm the exact effective date and determine whether its new planned development conditions interact with — or are superseded by — the separate citywide commercial-to-multifamily ordinance the Council adopted in the same June 9 session; filing a permit application before publication and effectiveness risks rejection.

Context: Council Member Hall moved and Council Member Crain seconded both the May 12 continuation and the June 9 approval of ZC-26-040, both passing 11-0, with no documented reason for the one-month hold in the available public record.

Recommended: File a public records request for the staff reports from both the May 12 and June 9 City Council hearings on ZC-26-040 — the case was continued for a month then approved with the identical motion-maker, seconder, and 11-0 vote, with no stated reason for the delay; that pattern typically signals a quiet application amendment or private negotiation that the final vote record does not reflect.