HomeMy WebLinkAbout673 08-11-1981ORDINANCE NO. 673
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 147, SAME BEING THE
SUBDIVISION RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CITY OF EULESS,
TEXAS, WITH RESPECT TO PLAT FILING FEES; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Euless City Council, following
public hearings, to amend certain development requirements under the Euless
Subdivision Rules and Regulations, for the purpose of reducing development
costs to residents and businesses situated within the City while maintaining
optimum development standards so as to assure the proper use and enjoyment
of real properties within the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EULESS, TEXAS, THAT the hereinafter cited sections of Euless Ordinance No. 147,
same being the Euless Subdivision Rules and Regulations, are herewith and here-
after amended to be and read as follows:
I.
Section 7 of the Euless Subdivision Rules and Regulations heretofore adopted
as Ordinance No. 147 is herewith amended to hereafter be and read as follows.
Section 7. Fees
(1) The developer will be required to pay a filing fee in
accordance with the following schedule at the time of
presenting any plat to the City for approval if the land
being platted requires improvements before it can be
developed.
(a) Preliminary Plats - $100 per plat, plus $5 per acre
(b) Final Plats - $125 per plat, plus $5 per acre
(2) The developer will be required to pay a filing fee of One
Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150) at the time of presenting any
plat to the City for approval if the land being platted does
not require any improvements to be developed.
II.
Severability Clause. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City
Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this
ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or
section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid
judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitution-
ality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs,
or sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the
City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such uncon-
stitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
III.
Emergency Clause. By the affirmative vote of four
the City Council declares that this is an ordinance
preservation of the public peace, property, health,
emergency measure within the meaning of Article ii,
Charter; and the requirement that it be read at two
in such Section 11, is hereby dispensed with.
IV.
Dr more of its members,
for the immediate
and safety, and is an
Section 11, of the City
meetings, as specified
Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective immediately from and
after its passage and publication as provided by the Euless City Charter and
the laws of the State of Texas.
PRESENTED AND PASSED on first and final reading on the 11th day
of August, 1981, at a regular meeting of the Euless City Council, by a vote
of 5 ayes, 0 nays, and 0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
Harold D
ATTEST:
Kay a ney, City Se r tary
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