By Shapiro S.B. No. 1227 75R5005 DRH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the establishment of a comprehensive plan by a 1-3 municipality. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 7, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Chapter 219 to read as follows: 1-7 CHAPTER 219. MUNICIPAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS 1-8 Sec. 219.001. PURPOSE. The powers granted under this 1-9 chapter are for the purpose of promoting sound development of 1-10 municipalities and promoting public health, safety, and welfare. 1-11 Sec. 219.002. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. (a) The governing body 1-12 of a municipality may adopt a comprehensive plan for the long-range 1-13 development of the municipality. A municipality may define the 1-14 content and design of a comprehensive plan. 1-15 (b) A comprehensive plan may: 1-16 (1) include provisions on land use, transportation, 1-17 and public facilities; 1-18 (2) consist of a single plan or a coordinated set of 1-19 plans organized by subject and geographic area; and 1-20 (3) be used to coordinate and guide the establishment 1-21 of development regulations. 1-22 (c) A municipality may define, in its charter or by 1-23 ordinance, the relationship between a comprehensive plan and 1-24 development regulations and may provide standards for determining 2-1 the consistency required between a plan and development 2-2 regulations. 2-3 (d) A comprehensive plan adopted under this chapter in a 2-4 manner that complies with Subchapter C, Chapter 395, may be used in 2-5 place of a separate ordinance, order, or resolution approving land 2-6 use assumptions under Section 395.045. 2-7 Sec. 219.003. ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. 2-8 (a) A comprehensive plan may be adopted or amended by ordinance 2-9 following a hearing at which the public is given the opportunity to 2-10 give testimony and present written evidence and, if one exists, 2-11 review by the municipality's planning commission or department. 2-12 (b) A municipality may establish, in its charter or by 2-13 ordinance, procedures for adopting and amending a comprehensive 2-14 plan. 2-15 Sec. 219.004. EFFECT ON OTHER MUNICIPAL PLANS. This chapter 2-16 does not limit the ability of a municipality to prepare other 2-17 plans, policies, or strategies as required. 2-18 SECTION 2. Section 211.004(b), Local Government Code, is 2-19 repealed. 2-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-26 passage, and it is so enacted.