Urban Design Standards
In recent years, areas of Downtown Fort Worth have been immensely successful in attracting people back to the central city to live, work, play, shop, and learn. This Downtown renaissance can be partially attributed to the authentic urban quality of these areas. This urban quality has been preserved in some buildings, streets, and corridors such as along Main Street and in Sundance Square. It has also been recreated in other places such as Sundance East, and the Firestone and Hillside neighborhoods, Trinity Bluff and Along Houston and Throckmorton.
The Downtown Design Review Board is charged with the duty and invested with the authority to enforce Sections 2 through 5 of the Downtown Urban Design Standards. This requires a hearing and determination of applications for certificates of appropriateness for a building permit for construction of a new structure, expansion or remodeling or other alterations of the first and/or second floor of an existing structure, signage, and construction of a surface parking lot.
URBAN DESIGN REVIEW BOARD MEMBERS
Ames Fender – Chairman, Architect
William V. “Bill” Boecker, Fine Line Diversified Development
J.D. Granger, Downtown Resident
Kenneth Moczulski, The Novati Group
Raymond O’Connor, OIAD
Kirk Millican, HLK Architects
Scott Polikov, Gateway Planning Group
APPLICATIONS
Applications for Downtown Design Standards are reviewed by the Downtown
Design Review Board and must be filed with the City of Fort Worth
Planning and Development Department, located at City Hall, 1000
Throckmorton Street, in the north end of the basement. For more
information concerning the application process, contact
Vida Hariri, 817-392-8045.
Visit the
City of Fort Worth website for more information about Downtown Urban Design District.