| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
relating to notice of proposed changes to municipal zoning |
|
|
classifications. |
|
|
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
|
|
SECTION 1. Section 211.007, Local Government Code, is |
|
|
amended by adding Subsection (c-3) to read as follows: |
|
|
(c-3) A zoning commission must give written notice of a |
|
|
public hearing before the commission on a proposed change in zoning |
|
|
classification to each owner of real property that is wholly or |
|
|
partly located in an unincorporated area of a county if the nearest |
|
|
property line of the property is located not more than two miles |
|
|
from the nearest boundary of the area for which the zoning |
|
|
classification change is proposed. The commission must provide the |
|
|
notice: |
|
|
(1) not later than the 10th day before the date of the |
|
|
hearing; and |
|
|
(2) by United States mail, addressed to each owner of |
|
|
the property, as indicated on the most recently approved county tax |
|
|
roll. |
|
|
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to |
|
|
a proposal to change a municipal zoning classification made on or |
|
|
after the effective date of this Act. |
|
|
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |