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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1249 - ORD Calling A Joint Public Hearing- Planning & Zoning Commission 1 Ordinance No. 1249 AN ORDINANCE CALLING A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND THE CITY COUNCIL IN RELATION TO CERTAIN PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY; PRESCRIBING THE TYPE OF NOTICE 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: Q Section 1. There is hereby called a joint public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council of the City of West University Place, Texas. Such public hearing shall be held in the Community Building at Auden and Rice Boulevard beginning at 7:00 o' clock p.m. on January 7, 1985. 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 certain proposed amendments to the City's zoning ordinance, which are generally described below: (a) the establishment of a "commercial classification," (b) the establishment of provisions within such cl~ssification govenning land uses and development in areaS included :in such classificaiton, (c), the consolidation into the. zoning ordinance of previous ordinances on the following' subjects: (1) off~street ~arking, (2) swimming pools, and (3) fences. .t ~:r Section 3. Such proposed amendments haveibeen submitted and are hereby resubmitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission for its consideration. il>~ 2 .'--" 1!:tJ Section 4. The City staff is hereby authorized to prepare and give notice of such hearing. The notice shall include the date, time, place and subject of the hearing.. The notice shall be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the City at least 15 days prior to the date set for the hearing. A copy of said notice shall also be sent to the owners of real property proposed to be included in the "commercial classification" or within 200 feet thereof, as such owners appear on the last approved City tax roll, by depositing the same, properly addressed and postage prepaid, in the city post office at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. This notice is in lieu of any other notice required by TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. ANN. art. 1011f, as amended, or by any other ordinance. Section 5. The City staff is authorized to make all necessary arrangements for said hearing and. to assist the Planning and Zoning Commission in connection therewith. 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 thi s ordi nance and the app 1 i ca t i on 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. ,] 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 thQt 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 amendments 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. ;1 '~ 3 n PASSED AND APPROVED this 9th day of December , 1985. Councilmembers Voting Aye: Mayor Parks, Councilmembers Higley, Bryan, Cummings, Schwartzel Counci 1 members Voting No: None Councilmembers Absent: None Michael L. Parks, Mayor ATTEST: Audrey Nichols, City Secretary o (SEAL) APPROVED AS TO FORM: James L. Dougherty, Jr. City Attorney o