Section 7803.110 - Setback Lines: Resolution, Notice, and Hearing(a) The board may establish and maintain building setback lines along any waterway in the district for the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, and general welfare and accomplishing the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.(b) Building setback lines may be established only after notice and hearing. The notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in Dallas County not earlier than the 60th day or later than the 15th day before the date of the hearing. Each affected landowner must be given actual notice by certified mail of the hearing.(c) The board by resolution shall adopt building setback lines if, after the hearing is completed, the board finds that the establishment of building setback lines is for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the people in the district and for the accomplishment of the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. The resolution must contain a description of the area included in the building setback lines by field notes, a map or plat, or both. A certified copy of the resolution shall be filed for record immediately with the county clerk of Dallas County. On the filing of the resolution, all persons are charged with notice of the requirements of the resolution.(d) The board may, on public hearing after notice as provided by Subsection (b), amend, supplement, or grant an exception to building setback lines as determined necessary.Tex. Spec. Dist. Loc. Laws § 7803.110
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 112,Sec. 1.02, eff. 4/1/2015.