Appendix A. ZONING ORDINANCE*  

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*Editor's note— Printed herein is the zoning ordinance of West University Place, Texas, as adopted on December 19, 1994, and as amended through July 31, 2003. Amendments adopted prior to July 31, 2003, as indicated in the preliminary matter of the zoning ordinance provided to the codifier, are shown below. Subsequent amendments are indicated by parenthetical history notes following amended provisions. The absence of a history note indicates that the provision remains unchanged from the original zoning ordinance as amended through July 31, 2003.

Obvious misspellings and punctuation errors have been corrected without notation. For stylistic purposes, headings and catchlines have been made uniform and the same system of capitalization, citation to state statutes and expression of numbers in text as appears in the Code of Ordinances has been used. Additions made for clarity are indicated by brackets.

Derivation (source ordinances):

1994 base ordinance: Ord. No. 1493, adopted 12-19-1994

Amended by: Ord. No. 1506, adopted 5-22-1995 (amended § 12-102 re: side-yard PNC's)

Ord. No. 1542, adopted 11-25-1996 (amended table 7-6 re: porches)

Ord. No. 1543, adopted 11-25-1996 (amended tables 7-4, 7-6 and PDD's re: townhouses)

Ord. No. 1548, adopted 1-13-1997 (amended article 2 and table 7-4 re: framed area)

Ord. No. 1556, adopted 4-14-1997 (amended § 12-102 re: enlarged building site PNC's)

Ord. No. 1578, adopted 1-26-1998 (amended schedule PDD-TH1 re: "garden style" use) Ord. No. 1586, adopted 2-23-1998 (amended schedule PDD-TH1 re: "garden style" use)

Ord. No. 1599, adopted 10-12-1998 (amended schedule PDD-TH3 re: Browning Townhouse PDD)

Ord. No. 1560, adopted 10-12-1998 (amended Schedule PDD-TH4, Weslayan Townhouse PDD "garden style" use)

Ord. No. 1604, adopted 1-25-1999 (townhouse/residential amendments; GR-1. GR-2 and PDD's; QMDS schedule)

Ord. No. 1620, adopted 6-28- 1999 (amended schedule PDD-TH6, Ruskin Street PDD)

Ord. No. 1637, adopted 2-28-2000 (added § 12.102(e) relating to PNC status for yard encroachments)

Ord. No. 1644, adopted 4-10-2000 (amendments regarding personal wireless service facilities; new PWSF schedule)

Ord. No. 1643, adopted 5-8-2000 (amendments for "peripheral areas," commercial district, etc., with new tables, etc.)

2001 base ordinance: Ord. No. 1672, adopted 3-12-2001

Amended by: Ord. No. 1691, adopted 8-27-2001 (amendments regarding noise of mechanical equipment, including A/C)

Ord. No. 1692, adopted 8-27-2001 (amendments regarding vineyards, gardens and private green space)

Ord. No. 1702, adopted 11-12-2001 (amendment regarding front street line)

Ord. No. 1707, adopted 3-25-2002 (amending Ord. No. 1672 to include previously adopted note 4, table 7-5b)

Ord. No. 1716, adopted 8-12-2002 (amendment regarding outdoor lighting, formerly high-output lighting)

Ord. No. 1734, adopted 4-14-2003 (amendments to table 7-5a, etc., regarding driveways, maneuvering areas, curb cuts, etc.)

Ord. No. 1735, adopted 5-19-2003 (amended "3/7" exception regarding yards or setbacks in table 7-2, note 2)

Federal law reference —Preservation of local zoning authority concerning wireless telecommunications facilities, 47 USC 322(c)(7); limited Federal preemption of state and local zoning laws affecting amateur radio facilities, Memorandum Opinion and Order , PRB-1, 101 FCC 2d 952 (1985) and 47 CFR 97.15(b); Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 USC 2000cc et seq.

State Law reference— Municipal zoning authority, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 211.001 et seq.; zoning commission, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 211.007; comprehensive plan, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 213.002; board of adjustment, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code §§ 211.008—211.013; zoning districts, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 211.005; regulation of signs by home-rule municipality, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 216.901; regulation of political signs by municipality, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 216.903; municipality may regulate parking on private property, V.T.C.A., Local Government Code § 431.001.