2005-05-16 Special Called Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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MAY-17-05 rUE 11:09 AM rEXA~MUNICIPAL LEAGUE FAX NO. 51?(.317490 P. 06 responsible for damages; (8) an alarm system company must provide customers with information relating to local ordinances and alann system operation, and must inform the city of alarm system . installatioT\s; and (9) a city may not refuse to issue an alarm permit for a residential location solely because it is an apartment. H.:H. 2381 (HcJ!W. relating 10 posting notice of a meeting on the Intemet. Passed the HOllse. H.B. 2751 HIarncttl, requiring thllt a notice of election on a proposed home rule charter amcndmenl include an estimate of the fiscal impact of the proposed runendments(s). Passed the 1 louse. H.n. 2755 (McRevnolds), relating to development corporations. Passed the House. As passed, this hill would allow a 4D corporation to engage in a projecl that is nceded for the "developmcnt, retention, or expansion of business enterprises" if the corporation has not, for each of the previous two years, received morc than $50,000 in sales tax revenue. 1\ H.B. 2833 (R. Cook), relating to regulatory takin&s of private properly. Passed the House. As passed. this bill would: (I) broaden the definition of a "taking" to include an action that limits impervious cover on any real property to less than 45 percent of the surface area; (2) provide that the following actions, if they don't affect building size, lot size, or impervious cover, are not affected by the bill: (a) an action taken to fulfill a federal or state mandate, (b) an action taken to prevent a nuisance, (c) an action taken to prevent a grave and immediate threat, (d) regulation of construction in a flood plain, (e) an action taken to respond to a threat to the public health and safety, (f) all aClion taken to regulate sexually oriented businesses, fireworks, discharge of fireanns, weedy lots, junked automobiles, noisc, alcohol, smoking, construction codes, manufactured housing, multifamily housing, historical buildings; and (3) provide that zoning is not affected unless the z.oning is an "impervious cover" taking or is done without the owner's consent within the lhree4)'car period following the filing of a development application. . H.B. 2842 (ChillUrg), relnting to penalties for providing false information to an accountant or ilccounting finn. Passed the House. H.B. 1864 (Luna), providing that sales tax revenue may be used to back bonds for public improvements in reinvestment zones, entcrprise zones, and other areas. Passed the House. H.B. 3057 (Howarlll. allowing certain part-time firefighters to work more than 500 hours annually. Passed the J'louse. This ill 11 TML hill. H.B. JUS (T. Smith). allowing a combined ballot proposition in 'which one dedicated or special purpose sales tax is reduced or repealed and the other is increased or adopted. Passed the House. ('This is a TML bin.) H.B. 3461 (Baxter), relating to a development moratorium. Passed the House. As passed, this bill would require a city, prior to imposing a moratorium on commercial development, to comply with certain procedures that are currently applicable to a moratorium Oil residential development, including: (1) notice and hearing prior to the adoption of the moratorium; (2) a requirement that a moratorium may be imposed only if there is a need to prevent a shortage of public facilities; and much more. (Companion bill is S.B. 1406 by Armbrister.) ".l.R. 80 (Krusee), amending the Texas Constitution to provide that economic development grants are not unconstitutional debt. Passed the House. S.B. 286 (Wentworth), relating to open government training. Passed the Rouse. As passed, S.B. 186 would provide that: . 6