By: Creighton H.B. No. 3513
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the power of certain municipalities to establish
performance standards for underground utilities, landscaping, tree
preservation and sign control in a neighborhood empowerment zone.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 378, Local Government Code, is amended
by the addition of a new Sec. 378.005 to read as follows:
Sec. 378.005. SCENIC ZONES IN CERTAIN UNZONED
MUNICIPALITIES. (a) In addition to other powers that a
municipality may exercise, a municipality to which this section
applies may establish performance standards for underground
utilities, landscaping, tree preservation and sign control within a
neighborhood empowerment zone.
(b) This section is applicable to an un-zoned municipality
with a population of 50,000 or more that is located in a county with
a population of 450,000 or more and includes within its
extraterritorial jurisdiction portions of a water supply reservoir
and lake that covers in excess of 20,000 acres.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.