By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1227 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the establishment of a comprehensive plan by a 1-2 municipality. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 7, Local Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Chapter 219 to read as follows: 1-6 CHAPTER 219. MUNICIPAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS 1-7 Sec. 219.001. PURPOSE. The powers granted under this 1-8 chapter are for the purpose of promoting sound development of 1-9 municipalities and promoting public health, safety, and welfare. 1-10 Sec. 219.002. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. (a) The governing body 1-11 of a municipality may adopt a comprehensive plan for the long-range 1-12 development of the municipality. A municipality may define the 1-13 content and design of a comprehensive plan. 1-14 (b) A comprehensive plan may: 1-15 (1) include but is not limited to provisions on land 1-16 use, transportation, and public facilities; 1-17 (2) consist of a single plan or a coordinated set of 1-18 plans organized by subject and geographic area; and 1-19 (3) be used to coordinate and guide the establishment 1-20 of development regulations. 1-21 (c) A municipality may define, in its charter or by 1-22 ordinance, the relationship between a comprehensive plan and 1-23 development regulations and may provide standards for determining 2-1 the consistency required between a plan and development 2-2 regulations. 2-3 (d) Land use assumptions adopted in a manner that complies 2-4 with Subchapter C, Chapter 395, may be incorporated in a 2-5 comprehensive plan. 2-6 Sec. 219.003. ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. 2-7 (a) A comprehensive plan may be adopted or amended by ordinance 2-8 following a hearing at which the public is given the opportunity to 2-9 give testimony and present written evidence and, if one exists, 2-10 review by the municipality's planning commission or department. 2-11 (b) A municipality may establish, in its charter or by 2-12 ordinance, procedures for adopting and amending a comprehensive 2-13 plan. 2-14 Sec. 219.004. EFFECT ON OTHER MUNICIPAL PLANS. This chapter 2-15 does not limit the ability of a municipality to prepare other 2-16 plans, policies, or strategies as required. 2-17 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 211.004, Local Government 2-18 Code, is repealed. 2-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-25 passage, and it is so enacted.