Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 212.213 · Subchapter H. MULTIFAMILY, HOTEL, AND MOTEL PARKLAND DEDICATION: MUNICIPALITIES WITH POPULATION OF MORE THAN 800,000
APPEAL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A landowner may appeal a determination made by a municipal department, board, or commission regarding any element of a parkland dedication requirement, including amount, orientation, or suitability, as that element applies to the landowner's property, to the municipal planning commission or, if the municipality has no planning commission, the governing body of the municipality. The appeal must include a requested adjudication of the issue in controversy.
(b) A landowner may appeal a municipal planning commission's determination under Subsection (a) to the governing body of the municipality.
(c) In an appeal under this section, a municipal planning commission or governing body of a municipality may uphold, reverse, or modify a parkland dedication requirement as applied to the landowner making the appeal.
(d) A municipal planning commission or governing body of a municipality shall uphold, reverse, or modify a parkland dedication requirement that is the subject of an appeal not later than the 60th day after the date the appeal is filed with the commission or governing body. If the commission or governing body fails to act in accordance with this subsection, the parkland dedication requirement is considered resolved in favor of the landowner's requested adjudication.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 493 (H.B. 1526), Sec. 1, eff. June 10, 2023.
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