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HomeMy WebLinkAbout935 08-11-1987NO. 935 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 347, SAME BEING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING CODE OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS, TO PROVIDE FOR SPECIAL USE PERMITS FOR HALF -WAY HOUSES, RESTITUTION CENTERS AND OTHER FACILITIES UTILIZED FOR THE HOUSING OF CRIMINAL OFFENDERS; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, with greater frequency the State of Texas has commenced utilization of community based residential facilities for the housing of criminal offenders; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Euless, Texas, acknowledges the propriety and need for community based correctional facilities while also recognizing the needs and desires of the citizenry to best assure that such facilities, if any, located within the City of Euless, Texas, are compatible with the preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety of its citizenry. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS. I. Section 7 -1002 of Ordinance no 347, same being the Comprehensive Zoning Code of the City of Euless, Texas, is herewith amended by the addition of the following new subsection (62) to be and read as follows: USE (62) Residential facilities for the housing of offenders under the Criminal Justice System of the State of Texas, including with- out limitation thereto, persons under the supervision or custody of the Texas Department of Cor- rections, the Texas Youth Com- mission, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, the County Juvenile and Adult Probation De- partments of the State of Texas. PERMISSIVE DISTRICT R -3, R -4, R -5, CUD, PD, C -1, C -2, L -1, I -1 and I -2 Kee Penalty for Violation. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the terms and provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not to exceed $200.00. Each such violation shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder. III. Severability Clause. That 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 unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. IV. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by the Euless City Charter and the laws of the State of Texas. PRESENTED AND GIVEN FIRST READING at a regular meeting of the Euless City Council on the 28th day of July 1987; by a vote of [ ayes, 0 nays and 0 abstentions; GIVEN SECOND READING AND APPROVED at a regular meeting of the Euless City Council on the 11th day of August , 1987; by a vote of 5 ayes, 0 nays and _ 0 abstentions. APPROVED: Harold Samuels, Mayor ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 347 Page 2 ORDINANCE NO. 935 ATTEST: �lGt; Kay Raibey, City Sere -tary AS Bob McFarland, ."City Attorney ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 347 Page 3 ORDINANCE NO. 935