Ord 2025-4044 amend Ch. 106 for fencing & landscaping

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(e) Placement of landscaping shall be in accordance with the visibility triangle requirements of section 106-311 (visibility triangle). (f) Screening for commercial and industrial uses adjacent to residential shall refer to the requirements of section 106-444(a) (commercial performance standards)." Section 3. Any person, as defined in Section 1.07 (27), Texas Penal Code, who shall violate any provision ofthe ordinance as it pertains to a violation of Chapter 106 "Zoning" of the Code of Ordinances of the City of La Porte as hereinafter amended, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,000.00). Section 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the City of La Porte, Texas, in conflict with any provision contained herein are hereby repealed to the extent of any conflict. Section 5. If any section, sentence, phrase, clause, or any part of any section, sentence, phrase, or clause, of this ordinance shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance; and it is hereby declared to he the intention of this City Council to have passed each section, sentence, phrase, or clause, or part thereof, irrespective of the fact that any other section, sentence, phrase, in clause, or part thereof, may be declared invalid. Section 6. The City Council officially finds, determines, recites, and declares that a sufficient written notice of the date, how, place and subject of this meeting of the City Council was posted at a place convenient to the public at the City Hall of the City for the time required by law preceding this meeting, as required by the Open Meetings Act, Chapter 551, Texas Government Code; and that this meeting has been open to the public as required by law at all times during which this ordinance and the subject matter thereof has been discussed, considered and formally acted upon. The City Council further ratifies, approves and confirms such written notice and the contents and posting thereof. Section 7. This Ordinance shall be effective fourteen (14) days after its passage and approval. The City Secretary shall give notice of the passage of this ordinance by causing the caption hereof to be published in the official newspaper of the City of La Porte at least once within ten (10) days after the passage of this ordinance. PASSED and APPROVED this, the 27^ day of January 2025. CITY OF LA POR , T Rick Helton, M or APPROVED AS TO FORM: T. 4-Az -s Clark T. Askins, City Attorney