HB4007 - Relating to the authority of a county to adopt subdivision requirements that include reasonable specifications for lot size, setback lines, and side lot lines.

  89R13572 SCL-D     By: Money H.B. No. 4007       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the authority of a county to adopt subdivision   requirements that include reasonable specifications for lot size,   setback lines, and side lot lines.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 232.003, Local Government Code, is   amended to read as follows:          Sec. 232.003.  SUBDIVISION REQUIREMENTS.  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:                (1)  require a right-of-way on a street or road that   functions as a main artery in a subdivision, of a width of not less   than 50 feet or more than 100 feet;                (2)  require a right-of-way on any other street or road   in a subdivision of not less than 40 feet or more than 70 feet;                (3)  require that the shoulder-to-shoulder width on   collectors or main arteries within the right-of-way be not less   than 32 feet or more than 56 feet, and that the shoulder-to-shoulder   width on any other street or road be not less than 25 feet or more   than 35 feet;                (4)  adopt, based on the amount and kind of travel over   each street or road in a subdivision, reasonable specifications   relating to the construction of each street or road;                (5)  adopt reasonable specifications to provide   adequate drainage for each street or road in a subdivision in   accordance with standard engineering practices;                (6)  require that each purchase contract made between a   subdivider and a purchaser of land in the subdivision contain a   statement describing the extent to which water will be made   available to the subdivision and, if it will be made available, how   and when;                (7)  require that the owner of the tract to be   subdivided execute a good and sufficient bond in the manner   provided by Section 232.004;                (8)  adopt reasonable specifications that provide for   drainage in the subdivision to:                      (A)  efficiently manage the flow of stormwater   runoff in the subdivision; and                      (B)  coordinate subdivision drainage with the   general storm drainage pattern for the area; [ and ]                (9)  require lot and block monumentation to be set by a   registered professional surveyor before recordation of the plat ;   and                 (10)     adopt reasonable specifications for lot size,   setback lines, and side lot lines .          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.