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ORDINANCE NO. 1953
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, AMENDING ZONING ORDINANCE NUMBER 1874, THE
COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY, REGARDING COMMUNITY HOMES FOR DISABLED PERSONS;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, Title 28, Article 1011 n, Section 4, of Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated states that a Family Home for Disabled
Persons is a permitted use in all residential zones or districts in the State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, after appropriate notice and public hearing, the following recommendation is submitted to the City Council of
the City of North Richland Hills, Texas, by the Planning and Zoning Commission; and
WHEREAS, the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of North Richland Hills, Texas, has forwarded a
recommendation to the City Council for amendment of Ordinance No. 1874, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, by
changing the said ordinance as set forth herein.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
1.
THAT, Article 10, Section 1000 Definitions, Group Home for the Handicapped, be hereby deleted.
2.
THAT, Article 10, Section 1000 Definitions, be amended to insert the following definition:
Community Home for Disabled Persons- A residential home operated by the Texas Department of Mental Health and
Mental Retardation, a community center organized under Section 3.01 of the Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Act, a non-profit corporation, or an entity certified by the Texas Department of Human Resources as a provider under the
intermediate care facilities for mentally retarded program, which provide services to disabled persons.
Such facility shall provide to the disabled residents food and shelter, personal guidance, care, habilitation services, or
supervision. Not more than six disabled persons, regardless of their legal relationship to one another, and two supervisory
personnel may reside in such facility at the same time.
Such facility shall meet all applicable licensing requirements of the state of Texas, shall not be located within one-half mile
of a previously existing community home for disabled persons, and shall meet all applicable requirements of this and other
pertinent ordinances of the City of North Richland Hills, Texas.
3.
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. That it is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the section, paragraphs,
sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or
section of this ordinance shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses,
sentences, paragraphs or sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without
the incorporation in this ?rdinance of any such invalid or unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
4.
SAVINGS CLAUSE. That Ordinance Number 1874, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of North Richland
Hills, Texas, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect, save and except as amended by this ordinance.
5.
EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force from and after its passage.
APPROVED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION THIS 11th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1993.
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PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THIS 10th DAY OF JANUARY, 1994.
Mayor, City of
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APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
Ordinance No. 1953
Community Homes for Disabled Persons
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LEGAL AFFIDA'
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The City Council of the City of North Richland Hills,
Tèxas will conduct a Public Hearing on Monday,
Janu~ry 10, 1994, to consider an amend.ment to the
zoning Ordinance No. 1874 regarding Fa~lIy
Homes for the Mentally Retarded. This Heanng
will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Coun~iI Chamb~rs,
7301 Northeast Loop 820, North Rlchland Hills,
Texas.
This is Case No. PZ 93-19.
Tommy. BrClwn, Mayor
City QfNQttbRJcbl~ Hill$, T"I
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THE STATE OF TEXAS:
COUNTY OF TARRANT
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more than one year next preceding the first publication of the attached
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