TO: | Honorable Dennis Bonnen, Chair, House Committee on Land & Resource Management |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB4144 by Gattis (Relating to a municipality's comprehensive development.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend the Local Government Code by adding Subchapter C to Chapter 211 to require the governing body of a municipality to adopt by resolution or ordinance a comprehensive plan for land use that details current and future land uses and serves as a basis for making planning or zoning decisions. The municipality would be required to review its plan not less than every three years and to appoint an advisory committee to make recommendations regarding the adoption, amendment, and review of the plan. Provisions of the bill would establish the minimum requirements and procedures a municipality and the advisory committee must fulfill.
A county commissioners court, upon petition from a landowner, would be required to appoint three special commissioners to assess the reasonableness of a land use applied to the landowner's tract under the municipality's comprehensive plan under certain circumstances. If a municipality were to refuse to amend the plan in accordance with a special commissioners' order, the landowner would be allowed to file suit against the municipality in district court to enforce the special commissioners' order.
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LBB Staff: | JOB, SZ, DB, SD
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