§ 33A-2. Thirty-foot setback required.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, association of persons or other entity to build, construct, erect, or reconstruct any buildings, structures (other than monument signs erected in lieu of pole signs and in conformance with the sign ordinances of the city) or fences within thirty (30) feet of the right-of-way of:

(1)

State Highway Loop 12;

(2)

State Highway 183;

(3)

State Highway 114;

(4)

Belt Line Road, except that the thirty (30) feet setback from the right-of-way of Belt Line Road may be reduced to twenty (20) feet if no parking area or other paving of any type (other than a sidewalk) is placed between the face of the building and the right-of-way line;

(5)

Grauwyler Road between State Highway Loop 12 and State Highway 183; and

(6)

State Highway 356 between Sowers Road and State Highway 183.

(b)

It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section if the base of a sign was placed within the following described area:

Being a part of Lot 1, Block AR of the Freeman Olds, 4th Revision, an addition to the City of Irving, Dallas County, Texas, as recorded in Volume 90113, Page 3409, Dallas County Plat Records, and being part of a tract conveyed to Freeman Investments Company, Inc. and J & J Estate Partnership by deed recorded in Volume 2000001, Page 3732, Deed Records of Dallas County, Texas, and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:

Commencing at a ½-inch iron rod found for corner, said corner lying in the South line of Airport Freeway (272 foot right-of-way) and being the Northwest corner of said Lot 1;

Thence East along the South line of said Airport Freeway, a distance of 180.86 feet to a point for corner

Thence South, a distance of 15.13 feet to the point of beginning;

Thence South, a distance of 15.70 feet to a point for corner;

Thence West, a distance of 6.89 feet to a point for corner;

Thence North, a distance of 15.70 feet to a point for corner;

Thence East, a distance of 6.89 feet to the point of beginning and containing 108.17 square feet or 0.0025 acres of land.

(Ord. No. 4967, § 2, 6-5-86; Ord. No. 7343, § 1, 10-8-98; Ord. No. 8682, § 1, 8-3-06; Ord. No. 8744, § 1, 1-11-07; Ord. No. 2009-9115, § 1, 9-3-09)