06-01-2000 Regular Meeing and Public Hearing

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ORDINANCE NO. 780-PPP AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE POLICY OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE ' CONCERNING THE- ZONING CLASSIFICATIONS UNDER THE FORMER CITY OF LOMAX 'ZONING ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE. DATE' HEREOF. " BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. The former City of Lomax has heretofore been consolidated with the City of LaPorte. The former City of Lomax had a comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. The City of La Porte has a comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. The Planning and -Zoning Commission of the City of La Porte is presently studying the existing City of La 'Porte Zoning Ordinance, with a view 'to recommending substantial changes and revision's. Section'2. Upon its consolidation with the City of LaPorte, the territory of the former City of Lomax came under' the coverage of the City of La Porte Zoning Ordinance, with a temporary classification of "R-1 Residential."' Because of the substantial number of land parcels - involved, and because of the ongoing revision process on the City 'of La Porte Zoning Ordinance, it would .be a duplication of effort by the Planning and Zoning Commission, and an inconvenience to the property owners involved, to 'have individual. hearings on all of the land parcels in the territory of the former City of Lomax, for a permanent zoning classification, prior to the enactment of the new revised City of La Porte Zoning Ordinance. There- fore, the City Council of the City of La Porte, upon the recommendation of the City of La Porte Planning and Zoning Commission, -hereby adopts and carries forward, the zoning classifications which were in effect'on the. various parcels of land in -the territory comprising the former City of Lomax, and the same shall have the same zoning classifications as they were classified under' the former City. of Lomax Zoning Ordinance, according to •the following table, to -wit: