O-2004-1501-AAAA re:Main Street District

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e e ORDINANCE NO. 1501-MIfIt- AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, CHAPTER 106, MORE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, BY AMENDING ARTICLE III. DISTRICTS DIVISION 3. COMMERCIAL DISTRICT REGULA TIONS, SUBDIVISION 1 GENERALLY, SEC. 106-441 TABLE A, COMMERCIAL USES AND SEC. 106-443, TABLE B, COMMERCIAL AREA REQUIREMENTS; AND BY ADDING SUBDIVISION V. MAIN STREET DISTRICT WITH OVERLA Y, SECTIONS 106-510 ET SEQ. TO DIVISION 3. COMMERCIAL DISTRICT REGULA TlONS BY; AND BY AMENDING ARTICLE VI. OFF-STREET PARKING, SEC. 106-832, APPLICATION OF THESE REGULA TIONS TO ALL ZONING DISTRICTS; EXCEPTION FOR MAIN STREET OVERLAY DISTRICT; AND BY AMENDING ARTICLE VII. SIGNS, SECTION 106-874 ON-PREMISES SIGNS; AND BY ADOPTING ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS AND BOUNDARIES OF THE MAIN STREET DISTRICT, AND BY CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION FROM GENERAL COMMERCIAL (GC) TO MAIN STREET (MS) INCLUDING MAIN STREET DISTRICT WITH OVERLAY FOR THE AREA ALONG MAIN STREET FROM STATE HIGHWAY 146, EAST ALONG WEST POLK STREET TO NORTH KANSAS, SOUTH ALONG NORTH KANSAS STREET TO INTERSECTION WITH EAST A STREET, WEST ALONG EAST A STREET TO INTERSECTION WITH ALLEY OF BLOCK 201, WEST ALONG EAST B STREET AND WEST B STREET INTERSECTION WITH SOUTH 1ST STREET, NORTH ALONG 1ST STREET TO INTERSECTION WITH WEST A, AND ALONG WEST A STREET TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH STATE HIGHWAY 146 HEREIN DESCRIBED; MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS OF FACT RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF; BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. The City Council of the City of La Porte hereby finds, determines and declares that heretofore, to-wit, on the 16th day of September 2004, at 6:00 p.m. a Public Hearing was held before the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of La Porte, Texas, pursuant to due notice as required by the Open Meetings Law, Chapter 551, Texas Government Code, to consider the question and the possible reclassification of the zoning classification of the hereinafter described parcels of land. There is attached to this Ordinance as Exhibit "A", and incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof for all purposes, a copy of Notice of Public Hearing which the City Council of the City of La Porte hereby finds was properly mailed to all owners of all properties located within two hundred feet (200') of the properties under consideration.