The first phase of the overall ordinance update project has now been completed. The update project has been ongoing since April of 2009; the first phase involved reorganizing and aligning the Allen County and Fort Wayne General Planning and Zoning Ordinances (Title 2 and Title 3 of the Allen County Code; and Chapter 153 and Chapter 157 of the Fort Wayne City Code). The primary intent of this phase was to take the language from the County and Fort Wayne existing ordinances, and put that text into an updated and aligned organizational structure.

The primary outcomes of this first phase are:

Both the County and Fort Wayne ordinances have been put into updated organizational structures; the “General Planning” provisions (Title 2 for Allen County, Chapter 153 for Fort Wayne) have been reorganized for the Comprehensive Plan and the Transportation Plan, and the Zoning Ordinance provisions (Title 3 for Allen County, and Chapter 157 for Fort Wayne) have been reorganized

• Both Zoning Ordinances now have similar General Provisions, Zoning Districts, Additional General Standards, Administration, and Enforcement Articles (County) or Subchapters (Fort Wayne);
• The Fort Wayne Sign Ordinance (currently a separate chapter of the City Code, Chapter 154) is being re-integrated into the Zoning Ordinance;
• The cross-references have been updated for both the County and Fort Wayne ordinances;
• Areas for future ordinance sections have been identified and put into place in the ordinances; and
• Several “tweaks” have been made to the ordinance language, to correct typographical errors, bring certain ordinance language into conformance with current State statute, and deal with the fact that the different chapter/sections were being relocated within the overall document.

The reorganized ordinances are both effective as of March 5, 2012.

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