HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 125 Amending Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of 1972ORDINANCE NO. /.R S—
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF WESTLAKE, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 49,
COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE BY CHANGING THE PENALTY IN ARTICLE XV
FROM $200 TO $100; REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 77; AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.
87 BY CHANGING THE PENALTY IN ARTICLE IV FROM $200 TO $100; AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO. 106 "SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE" REGARDING THE PLATTING AND
APPROVAL OF PLATS: PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND DECLARING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE TOWN OF WESTLAKE, TEXAS, HEREBY
ORDAINS:
SECTION I.
That Ordinance No. 49, Article XV "Penalty of Violation" is
hereby amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE XV
PENALTY OF VIOLATION
"Any person, firm, association of persons, company or
corporation, or their agents, servants or employees, who
violate, disobey, omit, neglect or refuse to comply with
any provision of this ordinance within the corporate limits
of the Town of Westlake shall be punished by a fine not to
exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00), and each day that a
violation exists is hereby declared to be a distinct and
separate offense and punishable as such."
SECTION II.
That Ordinance No. 77 amending a portion of Article I, Section
4 "General Provisions" of Ordinance No. 49 is hereby repealed.
Ordinance No. which amended Article I, Section 4 "General Provi-
sions" of Ordinance No. 49 is still valid.
SECTION III.
That Ordinance No. 87, Article IV "Penalty" is hereby amended
to read as follows:
"Article IV. Penalty.
"Any person, firm, association of persons, company
or corporation, or their agents, servants or employees,
who violate, disobey, omit, neglect or refuse to comply
with any provision of this ordinance within the corporate
limits of the Town of Westlake shall be punished by a fine
not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00), and each day
that a violation exists is hereby declared to be a distinct
and separate offense and punishable as such."
SECTION IV.
That Ordinance No. 106, the subdivision ordinance of the Town
of Westlake, is hereby amended by amending the following sections so
that such sections shall either be repealed or will hereafter read
as follows:
A.) Section IV. "Concept Approval" is hereby repealed.
B.) Section V. "Preliminary Plat", Subsection 5.1 shall read
as follows:
"5.1. The subdivider shall file with the Town
Secretary five (5) copies of a preliminary
plat."
C.) Section VI. "Preliminary Plat Procedure", Subsection 6.3
shall read as follows:
"6.3. The Planning Commission shall either
recommend approval of the preliminary plat
to the Town Council and if such approval is
subject to certain conditions, state such
conditions; or recommend disapproval and
state the reasons for such disapproval."
D.) Section VI. "Preliminary Plat Procedure", Subsection 6.4
shall read as follows:
"6.4. The Planning Commission shall submit
its recommendations concerning said pre-
liminary plat to the Town Council at the
Council's next regular meeting."
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E.) Section VI. "Preliminary Plat Procedure", Subsections
6.5 and 6.6 are hereby repealed.
F.) Section VI. "Preliminary Plat Procedure", is amended
by adding a new Subsection 6.5 which shall read as
follows:
"6.5. The Planning Commission may require the
applicant to submit a Revised Preliminary
Plat when substantial modifications are re-
quired by the Commission relative to the street
layout, block design or land use patterns of
the original preliminary, or when a large number
of changes are required in the engineering
details. No Final Plat shall be accepted for
processing until the Revised Preliminary Plat
has been submitted and checked for compliance
with the Commission's stipulations."
Subsection 6.7 shall be renumbered as Subsection 6.6.
G.) Section VII. "Final Plat", Subsection 7.1 shall read as
follows:
"7.1. The subdivider shall deliver four copies
of the final plat, plus two linen tracings and
two mounted copies of the plat to the Town Sec-
retary at least twenty-one (21) days before the
meeting of the Town Council at which approval is
being requested. The two mounted copies and one
linen tracing, if finally approved, will be
signed by the proper authorities and returned
to the subdivider. The final plat shall be
drawn in ink and shall be at a scale of one
hundred feet to one inch or larger. Where
necessary, the plat may be on separate sheets
accompanied by an index sheet showing the entire
subdivision. For large subdivisions, the final
plat may be submitted for approval progressively
in contiguous sections satisfactory to the Council."
H.) Section VIII. "Final Plat Approval" shall read as follows:
"Section VIII. SUBMISSION OF FINAL PLAT
"8.1. Within twelve (12) months after receiving
approval of a preliminary plat by the Town Council,
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the final plat and other exhibits required for
for approval shall be submitted to the Town
Council for approval. Failure to submit the
final plat within said time period will be
treated as an abandonment of the subdivision
plans and will require the applicant to re-
submit a preliminary plat and pay all required
filing fees in order to obtain approval of a
plat."
I.). Section IX. "Design Standards", Subsection 9.29 shall read
as follows:
"9.29. As an alternative to the dedication of
land as required by 9.28, the subdivider may
contribute an amount in cash approved by the
Town Council. Such cash payment shall be used
for park purposes.
"Where recommended by the Planning Commission
and approved by the Council, upon consideration
of the particular type of development proposed
in the subdivision, and especially in large
scale neighborhood unit developments not antici-
pated in a Comprehensive Plan of the Town, the
subdivider may be required to dedicate or reserve
to the public such other areas or sites of a
character, extent, and location suitable to the
needs created by such development for school,
park and other neighborhood purposes. It is
hereby found and declared that, as a general rule,
it is reasonable to require an amount of land
equal in value to five percent of the land pro-
posed to be subdivided be dedicated or reserved
to the public for public use for parks and
playgrounds."
J.) Section XI. "Penalty" shall read as follows:
"11.1. Any person, firm, association of per-
sons, company or corporation, or their agents,
servants or employees, who violate, disobey,
omit, neglect or refuse to comply with any
provision of this ordinance within the corporate
limits of the Town of Westlake shall be punished
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by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars
($100.00), and each day that a violation
exists is hereby declared to be a distinct
and separate offense and punishable as such."
SECTION V.
That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause,
phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereof to any person
or circumstances is held invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction,
such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of
this ordinance, and the Town Council of the Town of Westlake, Texas,
hereby declares it would have enacted such remaining portions despite
any such invalidity.
SECTION VII.
That this ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its
passage and approval by the Town Council.
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PASSED AND APPROVED this the / a� da UL ay of , 1982.
ATTEST:
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Ger Whi e, Town Secretary
Tow of Westlake, Texas
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
LPasham, Town Attorney
Town of Westlake, Texas
Dale White, Mayor
Town of Westlake, Texas
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