HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 538 CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 538
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS
AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY AMENDING
SECTION 24 OF APPENDIX A - ZONING R~LATING TO
AMENDMENTS; BY AMENDING SUBSECTION 24-101(5}
RELATING TO PROCEDURES; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; DECLARING AN EMERGENCy
AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE
NOW, TREREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF THE COLONY, TEXAS:
Section 1. That Section 24-101{5) shall be amended to
read as follows:
(24-101) Procedure
"If a proposed amendment, supplement or change has been
denied by the Planning and Zoning Commission, or if a
protest against such proposed amendment, supplement or
change has been filed with the City Secretary, duly signed
and acknowledged by the owners of twenty (20) per cent or
more, either of the area of the lots included in such a
proposed change or those immediately adjacent in the rear
thereof extending two hundred (200) feet therefrom or those
directly opposite thereto extending two hundred (200) feet
from the street frontage of such opposite lots, such
amendments shall not become effective except by a three-
fourths (3/4) vote of the City Council.
Section 2. If any sentence, article, paragraph, clause,
phrase or word in this Ordinance, or application thereof to any
person or circumstances is held invalid or unconstitutional by a
Court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not effect
the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance; and the
City Council hereby declares it would have passed such remaining
portions of this Ordinance despite such invalidity, which
remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 3. The fact that the present ordinances and
regulations of the City are inadequate to properly safeguard the
health, safety, morals, peace and general welfare of the
inhabitants of the City creates an emergency for the immediate
preservation of the public business, property, health, safety and
general welfare of the public which requires that this Ordinance
shall become effective from and after the date of its final
passage and publication as provided by law, and it so accordingly
so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF THE
COLONY, TEXAS, this ~.nd day of May , 1988.
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