(a) 
Hereafter, every owner of any tract of land situated within the corporate limits of the City of Liberty, who may divide the same in two (2) or more parts for the purpose of laying out any subdivision or any addition to the city, shall comply with the provisions of V.T.C.A., Local Government Code section 212.001 et seq., as now or hereafter amended, and is hereby adopted and incorporated herein for all purposes.
(b) 
The provisions of section 8.01(a) above shall apply similarly to the owner of any tract of land situated within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Liberty.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)
(a) 
Director of city planning and zoning.
The department of city planning and zoning shall be under the control and direction of the city manager or his designee. He shall have such assistance as may be provided by ordinance. The city council shall have the power to enact any ordinances necessary to enable the department to perform the duties assigned to it and to effectuate the aim and purposes of this article.
(b) 
On or after May 1 of each year council shall appoint resident qualified voters of the City of Liberty who shall constitute the city planning and zoning commission for three-year terms, and until their respective successors shall have been appointed and qualified, as follows: two (2) regular members first year; two (2) regular members the following year; and one (1) regular member plus two (2) alternates the following year. Individuals may only serve three consecutive terms on the planning and zoning commission. Individuals may serve more than (3) three terms if said terms are non-consecutive. Said commissioners shall serve without pay and shall adopt such rules and regulations as they deem best governing their actions, proceedings and deliberations and time and place of meeting. Any member of the city planning and zoning commission may be removed by the city council for any cause deemed sufficient for his removal in the interest of public service; but only after a public hearing before the city council of charges publicly made, if demanded by such member within ten (10) days. The purpose and object of said planning and zoning commission is to act as an advisory board to the city council relating to all nature of public improvements, civic improvements, city planning, opening, widening and changing of streets, routing of public utilities, controlling and regulating traffic upon the public streets and ways of the City of Liberty, and such other matters relating to city improvements as the city planning and zoning commission and the city council of the City of Liberty may deem beneficial to the City of Liberty.
(c) 
A majority of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum. If a vacancy occurs upon the said city planning and zoning commission, caused by death, resignation, removal from the city, or otherwise, the city council shall appoint a member to fill such vacancy for the unexpired term. All of the provisions of V.T.C.A., Local Government Code sections 211.001 et seq., 241.001 et seq., as now or hereafter amended, are hereby adopted and made a part of this article and shall be controlling on the city planning and zoning commission. The city planning and zoning commission shall also act and be the zoning commission of the city under the state zoning law as it now exists or as it may hereafter be amended. The department of city planning and zoning shall have the power to make amend, extend, or add to the master plan for the physical development of the city. It shall serve as a general guide of the making of public improvements and development of land for urban use. In the preparation of this plan or guide, the department shall consult and coordinate its planning with whatever other departments of the city that may be affected thereby. When such plan or guide has been prepared by the department, the same shall be submitted to the city council through the city manager for approval, rejection or revision after a public hearing. After adoption of such guide, or any part thereof, the city manager in recommending any public improvement covered or affected by this guide, shall advise the council as to whether or not the proposed improvement is in conformity with such guide or plan of development, and if not, he will advise the council the extent of, and reasons for, his variance. The city shall have the power through the city planning and zoning commission to require the owners of land who desire to subdivide, plat or replat land for urban development, to provide for setback building lines, to dedicate streets and alleys of adequate width in conformity with the extension and widening of existing streets and alleys in the vicinity, and to coordinate street layouts and street planning with municipalities, whether they adjoin or not, and with county, state and federal designated highways so that a coordinated street and traffic plan may be established and continued for the best interest of the general public. In connection with zoning and platting, the city planning and zoning commission shall have the power to consider the character of development or land use contemplated by the proposed platting and zoning and require off-street parking, streets and alleys of adequate width to be provided for that purpose.
(d) 
Alternate members of the city planning and zoning commission.
In addition to the membership provided by Texas state law to serve on the city planning and zoning commission, the city council may, if it so desires, appoint two (2) additional members who shall be designated as alternate members who shall serve on said board at the designation of the director of planning in case any regular members of the city planning and zoning commission are either absent or unable to serve in any particular case for any reason. Regardless of whether the city council appoints such alternate members, a majority of three (3) members shall constitute a quorum. These alternate members when appointed shall serve for the same period as the regular members and any vacancies shall be filled in the same manner.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99; Ordinance 945, sec. 1, adopted 12/10/02, Ordinance 1001, sec. 1, adopted 6/13/06; Ordinance 2018-12, prop. D, adopted 5/8/18; Ordinance 2020-35, prop. BB, adopted 11/10/20)
The city council may refer to and the city planning and zoning commission shall have the power to pass upon all street improvements, opening, widening, of streets and buildings of public nature covered by the master plan, and give advice and recommendations to the city council upon any such proposals, provided, however, that the city council thereafter adopt the recommendations, revise or reject them.
For the purpose of promoting the public health[,] safety, order[,] convenience[,] prosperity and general welfare, the City of Liberty, acting through the city council or under its direction, shall have the power to divide the City of Liberty into zones or districts for the purpose of regulating and controlling the size, height, bulk and use of buildings within such zones or districts and may exercise any other powers necessary fully to effectuate and accomplish the purpose of the powers herein conferred, that the further power is conferred upon the City of Liberty to establish building lines within such zones or districts or to establish building lines in residential districts or in other portions of the city, as may be deemed advisable by the said council, and to make different regulations for different districts, as may be deemed advisable. All of the powers granted by V.T.C.A., Local Government Code section 213.001 et seq., authorizing cities and incorporated villages to pass zoning regulations, together with amendments thereto as passed by the Legislature, are hereby adopted. All of the powers granted by V.T.C.A., Local Government Code section 213.001 et seq., as the same is now or may be hereinafter amended, authorizing certain cities to establish building lines on streets, are hereby adopted and incorporated in this charter.
(Ordinance 910, sec. 1, adopted 5/11/99)