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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1293 - ORD Calling Joint Public Hearing Zoning & Planning Commission & City Council l89 ;~ I,) 1 o ORDINANCE NUMBER 1293 AN ORDINANCE CALLING A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE CITY COUNCIL IN RELAT!ON TO A PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE REVISION AND AMENDMENT OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THEGITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE; PRESCRIBING THE TYPE OF NOT!CE TO BE GIVEN; CONTAINING FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE, TEXAS: Sect ion 1. There is hereby call ed a j oi nt pub 1 i c hea ri ng before the Zoning and Planning Commission and the City Council of the City of West University Place, Texas. . Such public hearing shall be held in the Community Building at Audenand Rice Boulevard beginning at 7:30 o'Clock p.m. on Monday, July 20,1987. 'Such hearing may be adjourned or recessed from time to time and from place to place. Section 2. The purpose of such hearing is to provide an opportunity for parties in interest and citizens to be heard in relation to a comprehensive revision and amendment of the city's zoning ordinance, including the zoning district map. o Section 3. Such proposed comprehensive revision and amendment has been submitted and is hereby resubmitted to the Zoning and Planning Commission for its consider'ation.: " " Section 4. The City staff is hereby authorized to prepare and give notice of such hearing. The form of the notice shall be substantially as shown in Exhibit A, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference. The notice shall be published at least once in a neWspaper'of gener'al 'circulation in the City at least 15 days prior to the date set for the hearing. Such a notice shall also be sent to owners of real property as shown on the last approved City tax roll, by depositing the same, properly addressed and postage prepaid, in a local post office at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. The notice provisions of this section shall be in lieu of any other notice required by TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. ANN. art. 1011f, as amended, or by any other statute or ordinance. } ~ -' Section 5'. . The City staff is authorized to make'all ne'cessary arrangements for said hearing and to assist the Commission and the Council in connection therewith. o Section 6. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or other part of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall ever be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this ordinance and the application of such word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, section or other part of this ordinance to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. 1 'L .. __--------'-~_._---'________'__........u......_,...1 I' I~_!, '~l1.J..ll.J.I!iIl.IlD..&.I.: , _. --' ~ ~ ~--'~~_'-_.__ DllTlllITTlTr1:r--1 ~" "-:J-'- - -.- '-l~l --. .. -r- --, lUll Ordinance Number 1293 Section 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of the conflict only. Section 8. The City Council officially finds, determines and declares that sufficient written notice of the date, hour, place and subject of each meeting at which this ordinance was discussed, considered or acted upon was given in the manner required by the Open Meetings LAW, TEX. REV. CIV.STAT. ANN. art. 6252-17, as amended, and that each such meeting has been open to the public as required by law at all times during such discussion, consideration and action. The City Council ratifies, approves and confirms such notices and the contents and posting thereof. Section 9. The need to consider the important proposed revision and amendment at the earliest possible date, with adequate prior notice being first duly given, creates an emergency requiring the suspension of the rule requiring the reading of ordinances at two regular meetings before final passage, and such state of emergency is hereby declared, and such rule is hereby suspended, so as to allow this ordinance to be read once, at this meeting, before final passage. II J PASSED AND APPROVED this 22nd day of June , 1987. Councilmembers Voting Aye: Mayor Parks, Councilmembers Bryan, Bell, Britton, Schwartzel Councilmembers Voting No: None II I I LJ Councilmembers Absent: None Michael L. Parks, Mayor ATTEST: Approved as to Form: Audrey Nichols, City Secretary James L. Dougherty, Jr., City Attorney (SEAL) n I \ , [ . ( I ' L..-! 2