Forney, TX zoning districts
29 districts, 29 with a written citation. Each row says what the district permits by primary use.
Zoning in Forney, Texas is governed by the City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, the consolidated ordinance the City publishes as its current Zoning Ordinance. Sec. 13 Zoning Districts Established sets nineteen BASE districts (AG, R1, SF-20, SF-15, SF-11, SF-8, SF-6, SF-PH, 2F, SFA, MF-15, MH, O, NS, GR, CBD, C, MU, LI) and five OVERLAY districts (PD Planned Development, CUP Conditional Use Provision, CBT Central Business Transition, ENT Entertainment, H Historic Landmark). Each district section states that its permitted uses are the uses shown for that district in Sec. 37, and Sec. 37.2 Use Charts is the single city-wide matrix: P = permitted by right, C = may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b, a discretionary approval), blank = prohibited. Sec. 37.1.B adds the exclusive-permission rule ('If a use is not listed (or blank) in the Use Charts, it is not allowed in any zoning district'), so every 'prohibited' in this table is a SOURCED negative rather than an absence of evidence (precedent P19). A Conditional Use Provision is discretionary and maps to 'conditional' (precedent P3). Cited-evidence only: the PD overlay and the two live GIS codes with no current-ordinance district (PCD, IPTPD) resolve honest-null — permissions null, low confidence, bespoke-district-review-required — never a guess. Overlay districts are separate map designations and are not embedded in the live code string, so no overlay algebra is authored and the overlays table is empty (precedent P13). No state-preemption layer is applied to Forney (precedent P21). District codes validated 2026-07-27 against the live City of Forney zoning layer (field 'zoning', 16 distinct non-null codes).
How to read the permissions
By right — allowed without discretionary approval. Conditional use — allowed only with a specific approval. Not permitted — not allowed as a primary use. Not resolved — the ordinance does not settle it in a way we would state as fact.
These describe the district. A specific parcel can also be affected by overlays, corridors, flood zones and site conditions.
| District | Residential | Commercial | Industrial |
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2F
Two-Family Residential District (duplex homes)
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 22 2F - Two-Family Residential District (duplex homes); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. 2F column: 'Duplex / Two-Family' = P and 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). The 2F column carries no commercial or Light Industrial / Manufacturing entry of any kind, so those main uses are not permitted. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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AG
Agricultural District
agricultural
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By right | Conditional use | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 14 AG - Agricultural District (Subsec. 14.2 permitted uses = the AG column of Sec. 37); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. AG column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). Commercial is conditional — six distinct commercial uses carry a C in the AG column: 'Bed & Breakfast Inn', 'Itinerant Vendor/Vending', 'Feed & Grain Store / Farm Supply Store', 'Livestock - Wholesale', 'Taxidermist' and 'Veterinarian (Outdoor Kennels or Pens)'. No use from the Light Industrial / Manufacturing category appears in the AG column, so industrial main uses are not permitted. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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C
Commercial District
commercial mixed
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Not permitted | By right | By right |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 31 C - Commercial District; uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. C column: 'General Retail Store', 'Restaurant', 'Restaurant (Drive-In)', 'Heating & Air-conditioning Sales / Services' and the full office set = P (commercial by-right). No dwelling use appears in the C column, so residential main uses are not permitted. Industrial is by-right, but only for commerce-scale entries: the Light Industrial / Manufacturing uses carrying a P in this column are 'Contractor's Office/Sales, No Outside Storage including Vehicles', 'Plumbing Shop (no outside storage)' and 'Sign Shop (small scale, such as a storefront; includes sign and banner making for retail sale only)'. Every one is expressly limited to no outside storage or storefront scale, and the genuinely industrial entries ('Machine Shop', 'Outside Storage', 'Welding Shop', 'Manufacturing, General', 'Electronic Assembly', 'Research Lab') are each C. The entitlement is authored truthfully as by-right AND the nuisance ceiling is overridden to medium-intensity rather than mechanically stamped high-intensity (authoring precedent P7), which is also the §1.4 rubric node-8 tie-break that keeps the category in the commercial band. The override is a machine-read field on this row (nuisance_override), not commentary: the resolver reports this district's nuisance ceiling as medium-intensity, and the by-right industrial entitlement is still stated in full above it. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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CBD
Central Business District
commercial core
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Not permitted | By right | Conditional use |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 30 CBD - Central Business District; uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. CBD column: 'General Retail Store', 'Restaurant' and the full office set = P (commercial by-right). No dwelling use appears in the CBD column, so residential main uses are not permitted. Industrial is conditional: 'Brewery', 'Kennels (Indoor Pens)' and the small-scale 'Sign Shop' carry a C. This conditional is reported verbatim rather than suppressed: precedent P1's narrow-hook suppression is scoped to RESIDENTIAL districts protecting a residential expectation, and precedent P32's suppression is scoped to hooks the ordinance grants city-wide in essentially every district. A Conditional Use Provision the ordinance grants only in the non-residential districts is a real district-specific pathway and is authored 'conditional' per precedent P3. Category commercial-core: Subsec. 30.1 defines the CBD as the City's original downtown business district in the vicinity of Main, Bois d'Arc, Austin and Trinity Streets south of the railroad. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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GR
General Retail District
commercial mixed
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Not permitted | By right | By right |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 29 GR - General Retail District; uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. GR column: 'General Retail Store', 'Restaurant', 'Restaurant (Drive-In)' and the full office set = P (commercial by-right). No dwelling use appears in the GR column, so residential main uses are not permitted. Industrial is by-right, but only for commerce-scale entries: the Light Industrial / Manufacturing uses carrying a P in this column are 'Contractor's Office/Sales, No Outside Storage including Vehicles', 'Plumbing Shop (no outside storage)' and 'Sign Shop (small scale, such as a storefront; includes sign and banner making for retail sale only)'. Every one is expressly limited to no outside storage or storefront scale, and the genuinely industrial entries ('Machine Shop', 'Outside Storage', 'Welding Shop', 'Manufacturing, General', 'Electronic Assembly', 'Research Lab') are each C. The entitlement is authored truthfully as by-right AND the nuisance ceiling is overridden to medium-intensity rather than mechanically stamped high-intensity (authoring precedent P7), which is also the §1.4 rubric node-8 tie-break that keeps the category in the commercial band. The override is a machine-read field on this row (nuisance_override), not commentary: the resolver reports this district's nuisance ceiling as medium-intensity, and the by-right industrial entitlement is still stated in full above it. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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IPTPD
Industrial Park Temporary Planned Development (live GIS code with no current-ordinance district)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| Honest-null (authoring precedents P9/P10/P11). 'IPTPD' (labelled 'Industrial Park Temp PD' on the live City of Forney zoning layer) is NOT among the districts established by City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 13 Zoning Districts Established, and the Sec. 37.2 Use Charts carry no IPTPD column. It is a tract-specific temporary planned development whose uses are fixed by its own adopting ordinance; no permission can be cited, so all three families resolve null and the parcel routes to review. | |||
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LI
Light Industrial District
industrial light
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Not permitted | By right | By right |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 33 LI - Light Industrial District; uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. LI column: 'Machine Shop', 'Sign Manufacturing', 'Stone/Clay/Glass Manufacturing', 'Sand/Gravel Sales (Storage)', 'Outside Storage', 'Laboratory Equipment Manufacturing', 'Electronic Assembly', 'Research Lab (Non-Hazardous)', 'Brewery' and 'Plumbing Shop' = P (industrial by-right); the office set, 'General Retail Store' and 'Restaurant' are also P (commercial by-right). No dwelling use appears in the LI column, so residential main uses are not permitted. Category industrial-light, not -heavy (§1.4 rubric node 4): the heavy tier is NOT by-right — 'Manufacturing, General (meeting performance standards in Section 44)' and 'Heavy Machinery Sales and Storage' are each C. The district's name is not the classifier; the use cell is (authoring precedent P2). Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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MF-15
Multi-Family Residential-15 District (apartments)
residential medium
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 24 MF-15 - Multi-Family Residential-15 District (apartments); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. MF-15 column: 'Multi-Family (Apartments)', 'Three Family (Triplex)', 'Four Family (Quadraplex)', 'Duplex / Two-Family', 'Single Family Townhouse (Attached)', 'Single Family Zero Lot Line / Patio Homes' and 'Rooming/Boarding House' = P (residential by-right). Its only commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision (transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook — precedents P1/P4), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited under precedent P1 (a residential district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook); no Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Category residential-medium, not -high: Subsec. 24.3 caps the main building at two and one-half stories and thirty-six feet, i.e. low-rise multifamily under the schema §1.4 rubric node 7. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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MF15
Multi-Family Residential-15 District (apartments)
residential medium
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 24 MF-15 - Multi-Family Residential-15 District (apartments); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. MF-15 column: 'Multi-Family (Apartments)', 'Three Family (Triplex)', 'Four Family (Quadraplex)', 'Duplex / Two-Family', 'Single Family Townhouse (Attached)', 'Single Family Zero Lot Line / Patio Homes' and 'Rooming/Boarding House' = P (residential by-right). Its only commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision (transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook — precedents P1/P4), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited under precedent P1 (a residential district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook); no Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Category residential-medium, not -high: Subsec. 24.3 caps the main building at two and one-half stories and thirty-six feet, i.e. low-rise multifamily under the schema §1.4 rubric node 7. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. The live City of Forney zoning layer emits this district as 'MF15' (no hyphen); it is authored as its own exact district key (precedent P12/P25 — the generic resolver splits base from overlay on hyphens only) carrying the 'MF-15' tri-state verbatim. | |||
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MH
Manufactured Home District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 26 MH - Manufactured Home District; uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. MH column: 'HUD code-Manufactured Home' = P (residential by-right; 'Single Family Detached' and 'Single Family Industrialized Home' are C). The MH column carries no commercial or Light Industrial / Manufacturing entry of any kind, so those main uses are not permitted. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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MU
Mixed-Use District
commercial mixed
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Conditional use | By right | By right |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 32 MU - Mixed-Use District; uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. MU column: the office set, 'General Retail Store' and 'Restaurant' = P (commercial by-right). Residential is conditional, not by-right: 'Multi-Family (Apartments)', 'Single Family Townhouse (Attached)' and 'Single Family Zero Lot Line / Patio Homes' each carry a C, which matches Subsec. 32.1 ('Residential uses within the MU district should be either SFA, SF-PH or MF-15 uses'); no dwelling use is P. Industrial is by-right, but only for commerce-scale entries: the Light Industrial / Manufacturing uses carrying a P in this column are 'Contractor's Office/Sales, No Outside Storage including Vehicles', 'Plumbing Shop (no outside storage)' and 'Sign Shop (small scale, such as a storefront; includes sign and banner making for retail sale only)'. Every one is expressly limited to no outside storage or storefront scale, and the genuinely industrial entries ('Machine Shop', 'Outside Storage', 'Welding Shop', 'Manufacturing, General', 'Electronic Assembly', 'Research Lab') are each C. The entitlement is authored truthfully as by-right AND the nuisance ceiling is overridden to medium-intensity rather than mechanically stamped high-intensity (authoring precedent P7), which is also the §1.4 rubric node-8 tie-break that keeps the category in the commercial band. The override is a machine-read field on this row (nuisance_override), not commentary: the resolver reports this district's nuisance ceiling as medium-intensity, and the by-right industrial entitlement is still stated in full above it. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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NS
Neighborhood Service District
commercial neighborhood
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Not permitted | By right | Conditional use |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 28 NS - Neighborhood Service District; uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. NS column: 'General Retail Store', 'Restaurant', the office uses and 'Automatic Teller Machines' = P (commercial by-right). No dwelling use appears in the NS column, so residential main uses are not permitted. Industrial is conditional: 'Brewery' and the small-scale 'Sign Shop' carry a C in the NS column. This conditional is reported verbatim rather than suppressed: precedent P1's narrow-hook suppression is scoped to RESIDENTIAL districts protecting a residential expectation, and precedent P32's suppression is scoped to hooks the ordinance grants city-wide in essentially every district. A Conditional Use Provision the ordinance grants only in the non-residential districts is a real district-specific pathway and is authored 'conditional' per precedent P3. Category commercial-neighborhood: a neighbourhood-service district by name and by Sec. 28 purpose. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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O
Office District
commercial neighborhood
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Not permitted | By right | Conditional use |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 27 O - Office District; uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. O column: 'Offices (Professional)', 'Offices (Medical Office)', 'Offices (Health Services)', 'Offices (Legal Services)', 'Offices (Brokerage Services)', 'Real Estate Offices', 'Insurance Agency Offices' and 'Automatic Teller Machines' = P (commercial by-right). No dwelling use appears in the O column, so residential main uses are not permitted. Industrial is conditional: 'Brewery' carries a C in the O column (Light Industrial / Manufacturing category), the district's only category-10 entry. This conditional is reported verbatim rather than suppressed: precedent P1's narrow-hook suppression is scoped to RESIDENTIAL districts protecting a residential expectation, and precedent P32's suppression is scoped to hooks the ordinance grants city-wide in essentially every district. A Conditional Use Provision the ordinance grants only in the non-residential districts is a real district-specific pathway and is authored 'conditional' per precedent P3. Category commercial-neighborhood: Subsec. 27.1 describes the district as 'low intensity office and professional uses' used 'as a transition district between residential uses and more intense uses', 'limiting heights to one (1) or two (2) stories'. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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PCD
Planned Commercial District (live GIS code with no current-ordinance district)
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| Honest-null (authoring precedents P9/P10). 'PCD' is emitted by the live City of Forney zoning layer but is NOT among the base or overlay districts established by City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 13 Zoning Districts Established (base: AG, R1, SF-20, SF-15, SF-11, SF-8, SF-6, SF-PH, 2F, SFA, MF-15, MH, O, NS, GR, CBD, C, MU, LI; overlay: PD, CUP, CBT, ENT, H), and the Sec. 37.2 Use Charts carry no PCD column. It is read as a legacy planned-commercial designation whose uses are fixed by its own adopting ordinance; no permission can be cited, so all three families resolve null and the parcel routes to review. | |||
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PD
Planned Development Overlay District
special
Lower confidence — verify against the ordinance before relying on it.
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Not resolved | Not resolved | Not resolved |
| Honest-null BY POLICY (authoring precedents P10/P11). City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 34a PD - Planned Development Overlay Districts: a PD is an OVERLAY whose permitted uses, density and development standards are fixed by the individual ordinance that establishes it for a specific tract (the City publishes the adopting ordinances per PD), not by a city-wide column — the Sec. 37.2 Use Charts carry no PD column. Permissions therefore resolve null and the parcel routes to its establishing PD ordinance for review. | |||
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R1
Single-Family Residential-R1 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 14a R1 - Single-Family Residential-R1 District (no minimum-lot suffix); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. R1 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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SF-11
Single-Family Residential-11 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 18 SF-11 - Single-Family Residential-11 District (minimum 11,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-11 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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SF-15
Single-Family Residential-15 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 17 SF-15 - Single-Family Residential-15 District (minimum 15,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-15 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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SF-20
Single-Family Residential-20 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 16 SF-20 - Single-Family Residential-20 District (minimum 20,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-20 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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SF-6
Single-Family Residential-6 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 20 SF-6 - Single-Family Residential-6 District (minimum 6,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-6 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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SF-8
Single-Family Residential-8 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 19 SF-8 - Single-Family Residential-8 District (minimum 8,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-8 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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SF-PH
Single-Family Residential-Patio Home District (zero-lot-line homes)
residential medium
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 21 SF-PH - Single-Family Residential-Patio Home District (zero-lot-line homes); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-PH column: 'Single Family Zero Lot Line / Patio Homes' = P and 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). The SF-PH column carries NO Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing entry of any kind — not even a conditional one — so commercial and industrial main uses are not permitted. Category residential-medium: small-lot/zero-lot-line detached form. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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SF11
Single-Family Residential-11 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 18 SF-11 - Single-Family Residential-11 District (minimum 11,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-11 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. The live City of Forney zoning layer emits this district as 'SF11' (no hyphen); it is authored as its own exact district key (precedent P12/P25 — the generic resolver splits base from overlay on hyphens only) carrying the 'SF-11' tri-state verbatim. | |||
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SF15
Single-Family Residential-15 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 17 SF-15 - Single-Family Residential-15 District (minimum 15,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-15 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. The live City of Forney zoning layer emits this district as 'SF15' (no hyphen); it is authored as its own exact district key (precedent P12/P25 — the generic resolver splits base from overlay on hyphens only) carrying the 'SF-15' tri-state verbatim. | |||
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SF20
Single-Family Residential-20 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 16 SF-20 - Single-Family Residential-20 District (minimum 20,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-20 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. The live City of Forney zoning layer emits this district as 'SF20' (no hyphen); it is authored as its own exact district key (precedent P12/P25 — the generic resolver splits base from overlay on hyphens only) carrying the 'SF-20' tri-state verbatim. | |||
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SF6
Single-Family Residential-6 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 20 SF-6 - Single-Family Residential-6 District (minimum 6,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-6 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. The live City of Forney zoning layer emits this district as 'SF6' (no hyphen); it is authored as its own exact district key (precedent P12/P25 — the generic resolver splits base from overlay on hyphens only) carrying the 'SF-6' tri-state verbatim. | |||
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SF8
Single-Family Residential-8 District
residential low
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 19 SF-8 - Single-Family Residential-8 District (minimum 8,000 sq ft lots); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-8 column: 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). No Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing use is permitted by right in the column, and its ONLY commercial entry is a 'Bed & Breakfast Inn' Conditional Use Provision — transient lodging, a single narrow discretionary hook that does not put commerce on the table in a single-family neighbourhood (authoring precedent P1, whose scope is exactly a RESIDENTIAL district whose sole non-residential pathway is one discretionary hook, plus P4 lodging-is-not-residential), so commercial main uses are authored prohibited and the hook is recorded here. No Light Industrial / Manufacturing use appears at all. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. The live City of Forney zoning layer emits this district as 'SF8' (no hyphen); it is authored as its own exact district key (precedent P12/P25 — the generic resolver splits base from overlay on hyphens only) carrying the 'SF-8' tri-state verbatim. | |||
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SFA
Single-Family Attached Residential District (townhomes)
residential medium
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 23 SFA - Single-Family Attached Residential District (townhomes); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SFA column: 'Single Family Townhouse (Attached)' = P (residential by-right; 'Single Family Detached' is C). The SFA column carries no commercial or Light Industrial / Manufacturing entry of any kind, so those main uses are not permitted. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. | |||
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SFPH
Single-Family Residential-Patio Home District (zero-lot-line homes)
residential medium
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By right | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance (the City's consolidated Zoning Ordinance, which by its Sec. 1 Enacting Clause replaced Ordinance No. 832 of March 3, 1987 in its entirety), Sec. 21 SF-PH - Single-Family Residential-Patio Home District (zero-lot-line homes); uses per Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts), Subsec. 37.2 Use Charts. SF-PH column: 'Single Family Zero Lot Line / Patio Homes' = P and 'Single Family Detached' = P (residential by-right). The SF-PH column carries NO Office, Personal and Business Service, Retail, Transportation and Automotive, Commercial and Wholesale Trade or Light Industrial / Manufacturing entry of any kind — not even a conditional one — so commercial and industrial main uses are not permitted. Category residential-medium: small-lot/zero-lot-line detached form. Family mapping uses the ordinance's OWN Use-Chart categories (Sec. 37.1.C): residential = the principal dwelling uses in category 2 (Residential Uses); commercial = categories 3 (Office), 4 (Personal and Business Service), 5 (Retail), 6 (Transportation and Automotive) and 9 (Commercial and Wholesale Trade); industrial = category 10 (Light Industrial / Manufacturing). Categories 1 (Agricultural), 7 (Amusement and Recreational) and 8 (Institutional / Governmental) inform the district category only. A row carrying an entry of EITHER kind (P or C) in ALL nineteen district columns is excluded from every family — those are the city-wide public/institutional rows (parks, schools, churches, utility lines) and the permit-only 'Contractor's Temporary On-Site Construction Office'; a city-wide or temporary entry is not a use entitlement for any one district (authoring precedent P32, the P1 generalization). Rows present in only SOME columns are counted normally, however few. Use Chart legend (Sec. 37.1.A): P = use permitted by right in the district; C = use may be permitted by Conditional Use Provision (Sec. 34b); a blank cell = use prohibited in the district. Sec. 37.1.B adds that a use not listed in the Use Charts is not allowed in any district — so a 'prohibited' below is the ordinance's own exclusive-permission rule, not an absence of evidence. The live City of Forney zoning layer emits this district as 'SFPH' (no hyphen); it is authored as its own exact district key (precedent P12/P25 — the generic resolver splits base from overlay on hyphens only) carrying the 'SF-PH' tri-state verbatim. | |||
Sources
- City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance — the consolidated PDF the City serves from its own Zoning Ordinance page (https://www.forneytx.gov/846/Zoning-Ordinance, which resolves to DocumentCenter item 3790, 'Zoning-Ordinance-2026'), retrieved 2026-07-27; the document itself was produced 2026-04-08. This supersedes the City's older 'Zoning Ordinance 2018' PDF (Ord. No. 1085 amended through Ord. 18-06, Feb. 20 2018), which was checked and NOT used.
- City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, Sec. 37 Use Regulations (Charts): Subsec. 37.1.A legend (P by right / C conditional use provision / blank prohibited), Subsec. 37.1.B exclusive-permission rule, Subsec. 37.1.C the ten use categories, and Subsec. 37.2 the Use Charts themselves (nineteen district columns). Read column-by-column for every base district.
- City of Forney Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, Sec. 13 Zoning Districts Established (the authoritative district list and names) and Secs. 14-33 (each district's purpose, permitted-use cross-reference and height regulations; source of the MF-15 two-and-a-half-story / 36-foot read and the O-district transition language). Live code validation: City of Forney public zoning layer, field 'zoning' (16 distinct non-null values, distinct-value pull 2026-07-27).
Table verified against the sources above on 2026-07-27. Ordinances change, so check the current code before relying on any row for a decision.
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