A. Amendments: The Board of Commissioners may, from time to time, amend, supplement or change by ordinance the boundaries of the district or the regulations herein established.
1. Administrative cost to process a change of zoning:
$400 up to 5 acres
$500 if property/tract is over 5 acres
$250 - fee paid by owner/agent when they request the item be ‘Tabled’ and, if honored, then the fee of $250 will be paid first prior to the City re-activating the rezoning public hearing process again.
B. Planning And Zoning Commission Review:
1. Before taking action on any proposed amendment, supplement or change, the City Commission shall submit same to the City Planning and Zoning Commission for its recommendation report. The act of the City’s submission to the City Planning and Zoning Commission may be through the Director of Planning, the City Secretary or the City Manager, receiving an application for a change and submitting the same to the City Planning and Zoning Commission on behalf of the City Commission. The City Commission may initiate a change by requesting the same be submitted to the Planning and Zoning Commission without the filing of an application of an individual property owner.
2. Prior to the City Planning and Zoning Commission making any recommendation relating to any supplement or change, it will conduct a hearing required under section 211.007 of the Texas Local Government Code, subject to any amendment thereto, which such public hearing notice presently requires written notice of such meeting on the proposed change to each owner within two hundred feet (200') of the property on which the change of classification is proposed. Such notice will be delivered before the tenth day before the hearing date. The only other notice shall be as required by the Open Meetings Act.
C. Public Hearing: Upon receiving the recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission, a public hearing shall be held by the City Commission before adopting any proposed supplement, amendment or change. Notice of such hearing shall be given as required by section 211.006 of the Texas Local Government Code subject to any amendments thereto. Such notice presently requires that before the fifteenth day before the date of the hearing notice of time and place of the hearing shall be published in the official newspaper of the City. The only other requirement of notice shall be as required by the Open Meetings Act.
D. Protests And Approval: Unless such proposed amendment, supplement or change has been approved by the City Planning and Zoning Commission or if a protest against such amendment, supplement or change has been filed with the City Inspector, duly signed and acknowledged by the owners of twenty percent (20%) or more, either of the area of the lots included in such proposed change or those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof extending two hundred feet (200') therefrom or of those directly opposite thereto extending two hundred feet (200') from the street frontage of such opposite lots, such amendment, supplement or change shall not become effective unless approved by four (4) members of the Board of Commissioners. (Ord. 95-04-04, 4-4-1995; amd. Ord. 125-9-24, 9-3-2024)
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Title or fail to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof or who shall build or alter any building in violation of the detailed statement or plan submitted and approved hereunder shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), and each day such violation shall be permitted to exist shall constitute a separate offense. The owner of any building or premises or part thereof where anything in violation of this Title shall be placed or shall exist and any architect, engineer, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed in connection therewith and who may have assisted in the commission of any such violation shall be guilty of a separate offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined as hereinbefore provided. (Ord. 95-04-04, 4-4-1995)
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