Ord 2025-4087_creating Floodplain Management Appeals Board

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ORDINANCE 2025-4087 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 94 "FLOODS" OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES BY REVISING REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR APPEALS, AND CREATING A FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT APPEALS BOARD; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; PROVIDING THAT ANY PERSON VIOLATING THE TERMS OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND UPON CONVICTION SHALL BE FINED IN A SUM NOT TO EXCEED TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS; PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE CAPTION HEREOF; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS: Section 1: That Chapter 94, "Floods", Article II "Flood Hazard Reduction", Division 2 "Administration", Section 94-65 "Variance procedures", of the La Porte, Texas, Code of Ordinances is hereby amended and shall hereinafter read as follows: "Sec. 94-65. - Appeal of Decision of Floodplain Administrator; Variances a) There is hereby established an appeal board to be known as the Floodplain Management Appeals Board, to be comprised of five (5) regular members holding positions designated as Position 1 through Position 5 and two (2) alternate members holding positions designated as Alternate Position 1 and Alternate Position 2, with each member to be appointed by the La Porte City Council to two (2) year terms. Alternate members are entitled to participate in meetings only when serving in place of an absent regular member, beginning with Alternate Position 1, followed by Alternate Position 2. Such board shall: 1) hear and renderjudgment on an appeal when it is alleged that there is an error in an any order, requirement, decision, or determination made by the floodplain administrator in the enforcement of administration of this article. 2) hear and render judgment on requests for variances from the requirements of this article. b) In exercising its authority to hear appeals the Floodplain Management Appeals Board may reverse or affirm, in whole or in part, or modify the floodplain administrator's order, requirement, decision, or determination from which an appeal is taken and make the correct order, requirement, decision, or determination, and for that purpose the