Bill Text: TX SB1761 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to infrastructure planning and lot frontages in the unincorporated area of certain counties.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-20 - Referred to Local Government [SB1761 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1761-Introduced.html
By: Middleton | S.B. No. 1761 | |
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relating to infrastructure planning and lot frontages in the | ||
unincorporated area of certain counties. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter E, Chapter 232, Local | ||
Government Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER E. INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING PROVISIONS [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 232.101, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) This subsection applies only to a county that has a | ||
population of more than 370,000 and contains more than ten | ||
municipalities with a population of less than 2,000. After | ||
complying with the procedures described by Subsection (a), the | ||
commissioners court of a county may adopt additional rules | ||
governing plats and subdivisions of land within the unincorporated | ||
area of the county. The rules adopted under this subsection may | ||
include only: | ||
(1) lot frontage minimums; | ||
(2) road width requirements based on the lot density | ||
of a development; and | ||
(3) ingress and egress requirements based on the lot | ||
density of a development. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 232.103, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 232.103. LOT FRONTAGES. (a) By an order adopted and | ||
entered in the minutes of the commissioners court and after a notice | ||
is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, | ||
the commissioners court may adopt reasonable standards for minimum | ||
lot frontages on existing county roads and establish reasonable | ||
standards for the lot frontages in relation to curves in the road. | ||
(b) This subsection applies only to a county that has a | ||
population of more than 370,000 and contains more than ten | ||
municipalities with a population of less than 2,000. After | ||
complying with the procedures described by Subsection (a), the | ||
commissioners court of a county may adopt reasonable standards for | ||
minimum lot frontages on planned roads within a subdivision for | ||
which a plat is required under this chapter and establish | ||
reasonable standards for the lot frontages in relation to curves in | ||
the road. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |