PD is short for planned development. Planned Developments are special zoning written for specific areas as opposed to standard zoning that can be applied to any area. More specfically, PD 714 is a mixed use, form based zoning area. It flanks Commerce Street and Fort Worth Avenue from the levy to Westmoreland Road.
The rezoning effort began back in 2005 when the newly formed Fort Worth Avenue Development Group started an effort to revitalize the corridor. Much of the area at the time was zoned IR or Industrial Research. This zoning designation is meant for manufacturing and industrial uses and is the second “heaviest” industrial categorization behind industrial manufacturing or IM.
