I mentioned this at one of our Forum Meetings in the Spring. Our landlord is planning to build a movie theater in the parking lot of our building. The old Levitz Warehouse has a small parking lot in front of the building along Camp Bowie and a very large parking lot on the east side of the building where the entrance to the former furniture store was located. He hired us (Halbach-Dietz Architects) to design a small 2 screen movie theater to go in the lot between our building and Ties To The Past Antiques on the corner of the block. The Camp Bowie District Design Standards and Guidelines require 30% of the front facade to have windows, and due to the requirement of a theater to have few windows, we have to present before the Urban Design Commission. We were hoping that the Planning Staff would permit the 30% of windows to be spandrel glass to meet the requirement, but they finally determined that spandrel glass was not a window. Therefore, a UDC hearing was required.
The UDC Cases can be found here: https://cfw.maps.arc...6f6ab1542fca765
The Staff Report can be found here which includes a floor plan of the building: https://www.fortwort...blvd_waiver.pdf
This is a view of the front facade of the theater: