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C~ • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council April 7, 1982, Page 6 Askins: For the three newly elected Councilmen to be entitled to legally vote, you would have to participate in a public hearing. You may have sat in the audience during the public hearing, but you didn't hear it as a Councilman. To have an opportunity to vote on it, we must reschedule the public hearing. Matuszak: So this means we must have another public hearing or I must abstain. Well, T do not intent to abstain on this matter. Skelton: Mr. Mayor, since this is the pleasure of the new Council; since they were given the opportunity to vote on this by a former Councilman, I second Mr. Cay's motion to table this and hold a new public hearing on April 28. Matuszak: Mr. Mayor, T'd like to make a comment on this ordi- nance, even though I was not a participant in the public hearing. I find that Section 5 needs considerable rewrite. I find it amazing that it has gotten this far without a re- • write, especially when we have a perfect example of what happens when you apply Section 5. For the interest of the people in the audience, Section 5 is the section concerning the green belt which seems to be included now as part of our container ordinances, at least the last two. (Mr. Matuszak read Section 5.) T believe, Mr. Askins, correct me if T am wrong, but this is essentially the same Section 5 as Container Services has in their Special Use Permit? Askins: Yes, that is correct. However, I would like to inform the new Councilmen that a particular ordinance on green belts, which will have particular application to container yards but perhaps may have application to other matters if the Council wishes to apply it, is under preparation. Our office is consulting a gentleman who is a horticulturist professor out at San Jacinto College for help of more specifics to have more detailed requirements written by someone who is an expert on how this might be done in a more detailed fashion, .and that will take the place of the green belt requirements in the former zoning ordinance. Tt will also be retroactive to the container yards now existing in La Porte. That ordinance is now in preparation and will quite likely be presented at the same time as or before this zoning comes up for final approval. It is quite likely that by the time this comes up for approval we won't have the green belt section in the ordinance, but will refer to the new green belt ordinance which will specifically . address it. I would expect in a great deal more detail, and perhaps we may recommend the approach in the ordinance to actually have this gentleman make drawings as a landscape architect would do, just how it should look.