1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1227 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1997; March 17, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; April 11, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; 1-6 April 11, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1227 By: Shapiro 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the establishment of a comprehensive plan by a 1-11 municipality. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 7, Local Government Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Chapter 219 to read as follows: 1-15 CHAPTER 219. MUNICIPAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS 1-16 Sec. 219.001. PURPOSE. The powers granted under this 1-17 chapter are for the purpose of promoting sound development of 1-18 municipalities and promoting public health, safety, and welfare. 1-19 Sec. 219.002. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. (a) The governing body 1-20 of a municipality may adopt a comprehensive plan for the long-range 1-21 development of the municipality. A municipality may define the 1-22 content and design of a comprehensive plan. 1-23 (b) A comprehensive plan may: 1-24 (1) include but is not limited to provisions on land 1-25 use, transportation, and public facilities; 1-26 (2) consist of a single plan or a coordinated set of 1-27 plans organized by subject and geographic area; and 1-28 (3) be used to coordinate and guide the establishment 1-29 of development regulations. 1-30 (c) A municipality may define, in its charter or by 1-31 ordinance, the relationship between a comprehensive plan and 1-32 development regulations and may provide standards for determining 1-33 the consistency required between a plan and development 1-34 regulations. 1-35 (d) Land use assumptions adopted in a manner that complies 1-36 with Subchapter C, Chapter 395, may be incorporated in a 1-37 comprehensive plan. 1-38 Sec. 219.003. ADOPTION OR AMENDMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. 1-39 (a) A comprehensive plan may be adopted or amended by ordinance 1-40 following a hearing at which the public is given the opportunity to 1-41 give testimony and present written evidence and, if one exists, 1-42 review by the municipality's planning commission or department. 1-43 (b) A municipality may establish, in its charter or by 1-44 ordinance, procedures for adopting and amending a comprehensive 1-45 plan. 1-46 Sec. 219.004. EFFECT ON OTHER MUNICIPAL PLANS. This chapter 1-47 does not limit the ability of a municipality to prepare other 1-48 plans, policies, or strategies as required. 1-49 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 211.004, Local Government 1-50 Code, is repealed. 1-51 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-52 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-53 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-54 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-55 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-56 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-57 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-58 * * * * *