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ORDINANCE NO. 2019-3759 <br />AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING AN UPDATE TO THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP COMPONENT <br />OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS UPON <br />RECOMMENDATION OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA <br />PORTE, TEXAS; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; AND PROVIDING <br />AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF <br />WHEREAS, Section 211.004 of the Texas Local Government Code provides that zoning regulations <br />must be adopted in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan; <br />WHEREAS, Section 213.003 of the Texas Local Government Code provides that a municipality may <br />amend a Comprehensive Plan by ordinance, after public hearing and review by the municipality's planning <br />commission or department; and <br />WHEREAS, Section 213.003 of the Texas Local Government Code also provides that a municipality <br />may establish, in its charter or by ordinance, procedures for adopting and amending a Comprehensive Plan; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, Chapter 106, "Zoning" Article I, Section 106-3, and Article H, Section 106-65 of the <br />Code of Ordinances of the City of LaPorte, delegates to the Planning and Zoning Commission the duty to <br />review and make recommendations relevant to modifications of the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, the City of La Porte has a Comprehensive Plan, which Plan was adopted by the City <br />Council of the City of LaPorte, Texas in 1986, and which Plan has been the subject of multiple amendments <br />since its adoption; <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to mandate of Chapter 106, "Zoning" of the Code of Ordinances of the City of <br />La Porte, the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of La Porte has reviewed all elements of the <br />Comprehensive Plan, and as duly approved by the City Council of the City of La Porte, to consider possible <br />amendments thereto; and <br />WHEREAS, at the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission meeting which occurred on August <br />15, 2019, the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission reviewed the Future Land Use Map component of <br />the Comprehensive Plan for the purpose of considering proposed amendments thereto, to change the designation <br />for that 12.608 acre tract of land located at the northwest corner of Fairmont Pkwy. and Canada Rd., and legally <br />described as follows: Tracts 710A and 711, La Porte Outlots, City of La Porte, Harris County, Texas, from its <br />present designation of "Commercial', to "Mid -High Density Residential", and at the conclusion of such review <br />the La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend the adoption of said proposed amendments <br />to the Future Land Use Plan component of the Comprehensive Plan, to the La Porte City Council; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, <br />TEXAS, THAT: <br />Section 1 That an amendment to the Future Land Use Map component of the Comprehensive Plan of the City <br />