The City Council shall, through adoption of ordinances, promulgate rules, regulations, standards and specifications for the construction (as set forth in the Design Criteria Manual), installation, design, location and arrangement of streets, curbs, streetlights, street signs, alleys, utility layouts, utility easements, gates for utility easements, sidewalks, water supply and water distribution, fire hydrants, sewage disposal systems, septic tanks, water wells, monuments, criteria for drainage easement requirements, drainage facilities, and crosswalk ways. Such ordinances shall be published and filed with the City Secretary at least thirty (30) days before becoming effective. Any rules, regulations, standards and specifications adopted pursuant to this Ordinance may be amended, provided that an amendment must be published and filed with the City Secretary at least thirty (30) days before it becomes effective. No such rules, regulations, standards and specifications shall conflict with this or any other ordinances of the City. All such improvements shall be constructed, installed, designed, located and arranged by the developer/owner in accordance with such rules, regulations, standards and specifications.
(Ordinance O-2003-02 adopted 2/4/03)
A. 
Except where indicated, these Subdivision Regulations are not intended to interfere with, abrogate, or annul any other ordinance, rule, regulation, statute, or other provision of law. Whenever the standards and specifications in this ordinance conflict with those contained in another ordinance, the most stringent or restrictive provision shall govern.
B. 
These regulations are not intended to abrogate any easement, deed restriction, covenant or any other private agreement or deed restriction.
(Ordinance O-2003-02 adopted 2/4/03)
A. 
The City shall not repair, maintain, install or provide any streets or public utility services in any development for which a final plat has not been approved and filed for record, nor in which the standards contained or referred to in this Ordinance have not been complied with in full.
B. 
The City shall not sell or supply any water, gas, electricity or sewage service within a subdivision for which a final plat has not been approved or filed for record, nor in which the standards contained or referred to in this Ordinance have not been complied with in full.
C. 
No building permit for a primary building will be issued until all proposed public facilities have been installed and have been approved by the City unless specifically authorized by the Developer Agreement after a determination that adequate security has been provided to assure construction of the public facilities.
(Ordinance O-2003-02 adopted 2/4/03)
A. 
Appropriate actions may be taken to prevent a violation of these Subdivision Regulations; to prevent unlawful construction; to restrain, correct, or abate a violation; or to prevent illegal occupancy of a building structure or premises.
B. 
The City Attorney shall, when directed by the City Council, institute appropriate action in a court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this Ordinance or the standards referred to in this Ordinance with respect to any violation thereof which occurs within the City, within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City or within any area subject to all or a part of the provisions of this Ordinance.
C. 
It shall be the responsibility of the City Planner to enforce the administrative provisions of these regulations.
D. 
It shall be the responsibility of the Development Services Manager to enforce the development provisions of these regulations.
E. 
The subdivision of any lot or any parcel of land by the use of a metes and bounds description for the purpose of sale, transfer, or lease with the intent of evading these regulations by creating a building lot shall be considered a violation of this Ordinance. All such subdivisions and plats shall be subject to all of the requirements contained in these Subdivision Regulations.
F. 
No building permit shall be issued for the construction of a building or structure on a lot subdivided or sold in violation of the provisions of these Subdivision Regulations.
G. 
[Reserved]
H. 
The City Planner shall be responsible for the interpretation of these Subdivision Regulations. Where a developer or applicant disagrees with the interpretation of the City Planner, he/she may appeal such interpretation to the Planning and Zoning Commission for a final determination. Where a determination of these regulations is in conflict with a request by a developer/owner, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall rule and decide on these questions.
(Ordinance 2013-23 adopted 11/19/13)
If any development exists for which a final plat has not been approved or for which the standards contained or referred to herein have not been complied with in full, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall pass a resolution reciting the fact of such noncompliance or failure to secure final plat approval, and reciting the fact that the provisions of Section 3 of this Ordinance will apply to the development and the lots therein, and the City Secretary shall, when directed by the Planning and Zoning Commission, cause a certified copy of such resolution under the corporate seal of the City to be filed in the deed records of the county or counties in which such development or part thereof lies. If full compliance and final plat approval are secured after the filing of such resolution, the City Secretary shall forthwith file an instrument in the deed records of such county or counties stating that subsections 3.3 [sic] no longer apply.
(Ordinance O-2003-02 adopted 2/4/03)
A. 
Platting shall be required for all building permit requests for new buildings on unplatted real property except as follows:
1. 
Residentially developed property not exceeding five acres in size may obtain a building permit for additions to the main structure if such addition does not exceed 50 percent of the main structure;
2. 
Adding an accessory building or structure on an unplatted residentially developed lot provided a primary structure exists on the unplatted lot; or
3. 
Restoring any residential building or structure on an unplatted residentially developed lot, destroyed by fire, explosion, or any other casualty or an Act of God where the extent of the destruction is not more than 50 percent of the current value of the structure.
(Ordinance O-2003-02 adopted 2/4/03)
The City's development and inspection fees for developments located inside the City, and within its extraterritorial jurisdiction, shall be paid as engineering review fees pursuant to Section A1.010, Appendix A, of the City of Azle Code of Ordinances.
(Ordinance 2013-23 adopted 11/19/13; Ordinance 2023-14 adopted 9/5/2023)
Any person violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction shall be fined an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00). Each day that such violation continues shall be a separate offense. Prosecution or conviction under this provision shall never be a bar to any other remedy or relief for violations of this Ordinance.