Ordinance No. 2,512ia
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 7 -5.1, MINIMUM PROPERTY
STANDARDS FOR ONE AND TWO LIVING UNITS -- AMENDMENTS, OF
THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO ESTABLISH MINIMUM DISTANCES
BETWEEN STRUCTURES AND PROPERTY LINES: REPEALING CON-
FLICTING ORDINANCES; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE AND
PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN:
Section 1: That the Code of Ordinances of the City of
Baytown is hereby amended by the repeal of Chapter 7,
"Buildings ", Section 7 -5.1, Minimum Property Standards for
One and Two Living Units -- Amendments, as presently constituted
and by substituting in its place a new Section 7 -5.1 which
shall read as follows:
Sec.7 -5.1. Minimum property standards for one and two
living units -- amendments.
Section 503 -2 of the minimum property standards for one
and two living units (FHA No. 300) is hereby amended so as
to repeal that section as presently constituted and to
substitute in its place a new section 503 -2.1 which shall
read as follows:
Section 503 -2.1. Minimum distance from front or rear
building line to property line, at any point, 15 feet,
except a garage or carport to rear property line, 5 feet
minimum. A carport which is open on three sides (the side
nearest the front property line and the two adjacent sides,
or if located on a corner lot and entering the secondary
street, the side nearest to the secondary street and the two
adjacent sides) may have an overhang extending to the front
property line (or side property line in the case of a car-
port on a corner lot entering on the secondary street) with
no structural post installed closer than 3 feet from the
property line.
Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby
repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only
to the extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects
this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances
regulating and governing the subject matter covered by this
(" ordinance.
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Section 3: If any provision, section, exception, sub-
section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance or the application of same to any person or set of
circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional,
void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the valid-
ity of the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their
application to other persons or sets of circumstances and to
this end all provisions of this ordinance are declared to be
severable.
Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect from and
after its passage.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
the City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 27th
day of July , 1978.
ATTEST:
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E EN P. HA L, City Clerk
APPROVED:
SCOTT BOUNDS, City Attorney
W
E METT 0. HUTTO, Mayor
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