A Fort Worth business will expand, but it first had to be approved for rezoning by the Fort Worth City Council.
Absolute Stone & Tile, Inc. has plans to add a 12,000-square-foot building for storage at its location on Alta Vista Road. Part of the change is coming into compliance with landscaping standards for the zoning required for commercial or industrial use.
The Fort Worth City Council approved the change at the Jan. 13 meeting.
Zooming in
Absolute Stone & Tile, Inc., is open to the public, selling natural stone surfaces such as granite, marble, travertine and quartzite to homeowners, restaurants, home builders and contractors, according to its website.
Absolute Stone’s website lists stones that could be used for bathrooms, kitchens, fireplaces, flooring and countertops.
Diving deeper
The site was annexed into the city in 2010, but it has been used for industrial purposes since 1980 and became a stone cutting facility in 2004, according to city documents. However, a certificate of occupancy was not obtained by the business until 2019, which happened after a building was replaced sometime between 2015 and 2017 without a building permit.
The business was rezoned from A-10 one-family residential to neighborhood commercial with a conditional use permit for the cutting/sawing. Since that was the business’s use since the annexation, it will be allowed under neighborhood commercial instead of industrial, city documents stated.
The parking area along the southern and western portion of the property line will be converted into a 50-foot wide landscaping buffer with require solid screen fence. Part of the conditional use permit is allowing for 33 parking spaces when 34 were required by the city code.
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