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CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
7301 NORTHEAST LOOP 820
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS
Monday, November 21, 2011
8:15 A.M.
A.0 Call to Order - Mayor Trevino
A.1 GN 2011 -103 Ordinance No. 3173 amending Section 114.71(b) and the landscaping
regulations of the City.
A.2 Adjournment
All items on the agenda are for discussion and /or action.
Certification
I do hereby certify that the above notice of meeting of the North Richland Hills City Council was
posted at City Hall, City of North Richland Hills, Texas in compliance with Chapter 551, Texas
Government Code on November 17, 2011 at _p.m.
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City Secretary
This facility is wheelchair accessible and accessible parking spaces are available.
Requests for accommodations or interpretive services must be made 48 hours prior to
this meeting. Please contact the City Secretary's office at 817 - 427 -6060 for further
information.
The City Council may confer privately with its attorney to seek legal advice on any matter listed
on the agenda or on any matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body
under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly
conflicts with Chapter 551, Texas Government Code.
CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS
7301 NORTHEAST LOOP 820
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS
Monday, November 21, 2011
8:15 A.M.
A.0Call to Order - Mayor Trevino
A.1GN 2011-103 Ordinance No. 3173 amending Section 114.71(b) and the landscaping
regulations of the City.
A.2 Adjournment
All items on the agenda are for discussion and/or action.
Certification
I do hereby certify that the above notice of meeting of the North Richland Hills City Council was
posted at City Hall, City of North Richland Hills, Texas in compliance with Chapter 551, Texas
Government Code on November 17, 2011.
________________________
City Secretary
This facility is wheelchair accessible and accessible parking spaces are available.
Requests for accommodations or interpretive services must be made 48 hours prior to
this meeting. Please contact the City Secretary’s office at 817-427-6060 for further
information.
The City Council may confer privately with its attorney to seek legal advice on any matter listed
on the agenda or on any matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body
under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly
conflicts with Chapter 551, Texas Government Code.
ORDINANCE NO. 3173
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 114 -71(b) OF THE NORTH
RICHLAND HILLS CODE OF ORDINANCES; AMENDING THE
CONDITIONS WHICH WILL REQUIRE COMPLIANCE WITH THE
LANDSCAPING REGULATIONS; REQUIRING REPLACEMENT OF
LANDSCAPING CONVEYED, CONVEYED OR TAKEN BY EMINENT
DOMAIN AND COMPLIANCE WITH PARKING ENTRANCE ISLAND
REQUIREMENTS IF DRIVEWAYS ARE REDUCED OR RELOCATED;
ESTABLISHING A PENALTY; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City's current landscape ordinance provisions are not as explicit on
certain details such as when landscaping must be replaced or installed
and the City Council desires to provide clarity as well as to reduce the
value of remodeling or alteration which will trigger the requirement for full
compliance with landscaping requirements; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND
HILLS, TEXAS:
Section 1. Section 114 -71(b) of the North Richland Hills Code of Ordinances is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec 114 -71 Landscaping regulations
(b) Applicability. The provisions of the landscaping regulations contained in this
section shall apply in the following situations:
(1) When an existing building is proposed for remodeling, alteration, addition,
or expansion, in which the value of the proposed construction exceeds 50
percent of the current value of the existing structures as appraised by the
Tarrant Appraisal District (TAD), excluding the value of the land;
(2) When an existing building is proposed for an addition that will increase the
square footage of the existing building by 30 percent;
(3) Upon construction of a new building; or
(4) As a requirement of the approval of a special use permit or planned unit
development.
Ordinance No. 3173
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(5) Should any of a property's existing landscaping be converted to another
use, conveyed or taken by eminent domain, equivalent landscaping shall
be required as a condition of the continued use and occupancy of the lot
and existing structures thereon. "Equivalent" shall mean the same area
and quantity of landscape materials as is being replaced. If the existing
landscaping is a buffer to a public street, such buffer shall be replaced.
Such requirement shall not be deemed to require more landscaping than
would be required for new construction of the building on such lot.
(6) If any portion of a driveway onto a public street is relocated or reduced by
conveyance or eminent domain, parking entrance island requirements
described in Section 114- 71(i)(3) shall be complied with.
(7) Any expansion, relocation or reconfiguration of paved parking or internal
drive areas, excluding restriping, shall comply with Section 114 -71(i)
(Landscaping of parking lots)."
Section 2: Violation of any provision of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of
not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Each day any violation
shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.
Section 3: All other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, are hereby
repealed to the extent that they are in conflict. Such other Ordinances are
hereby saved from repeal to the extent they do not conflict herewith.
Section 4: It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the
sections, 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 unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by
the final judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses,
sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same
would have been enacted by the city council without the incorporation in
this ordinance of any such invalid phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or
section.
Section 5: This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its passage.
AND IT IS SO ORDAINED.
Ordinance No. 3173
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PASSED AND APPROVED this 21st day of November, 2011.
CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS
Oscar Trevino, Mayor
ATTEST:
Patricia Hutson, City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
George A. Staples, City Attorney
Ordinance No. 3173
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