The federal government, the State, a county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the State, or any of their units, or an individual, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, Manager, fiduciary, or representative of any kind, or any partnership, firm, association, public or private corporation, or any of their affiliates, or any other entity. Special exceptions are specified deviations from otherwise applicable development standards where development is proposed that would be: 1. If the applicant and administrative official can not agree on a format or mediator for the appeal within thirty (30) days, the Chairperson of the BOA may assign a mediator. Conditional Use. C. Construction or expansion of a building other than a single-family or duplex residential building, with a floor area expansion of more than one thousand (1,000) square feet or more requires a site development permit. A vertical false front or wall extension above the roof line. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall forward its recommendation to the City Council, which is responsible for final action on the Variance request. Stable, Commercial. 2. Create a Website Account - Manage notification subscriptions, save form progress and more. Watershed. Incidental Sign. Works of art that do not include a Commercial Message; 4. Boarding, breeding or raising of horses not owned by the occupants of the premises or riding of horses by other than the occupants of the premises or their nonpaying guests. Typical uses include sports arenas, racing facilities, and amusement parks. The overlay zoning districts address special siting, use and compatibility issues that require use and development regulations in addition to those found in the underlying zoning districts. The notice shall include a description of the violation, the date such violation was noted, instructions to contact the City Administrator to apply for a permit for the sign, if applicable, and the fine schedule if the notice is not heeded, refused or unclaimed. For the purposes of these regulations, a minor plat subdivision is defined as a subdivision: Involving not more than five (5) lots fronting on an existing approved street; and, Not involving any new street or prospectively requiring any new street for access to interior property; and, Not requiring extension of public sewage or water lines to serve properties at the rear; and. The complaint shall also include a description of the property on which the violation occurred and the names and addresses of the parties involved. Material which that [sic] is capable of causing injury to living organisms by chemical reaction or is capable of causing detrimental effects upon the physical or economic well-being of individuals. Repair of trucks, tractors, construction equipment, agricultural implements, and similar heavy equipment. A contiguous legally-created lot, parcel, outlot, outparcel or residue owned and recorded as the property of the same persons, or controlled by a single entity. Courtyards may exist between buildings, and buildings may open up to the courtyard; however, the front facade of the building must face the street as described above. To render advice and guidance, upon reasonable request of any property owner, or its agent, or occupant, on development or new construction or the restoration, alteration or maintenance of any building within the City. Proposed development near these districts should consider including parkland within the development to provide contiguity of parkland development. Lot Line, Front. A specific use that would not be appropriate generally or without restriction, the granting of which shall be based upon a finding by the Planning and Zoning Commission that certain conditions governing the proposed conditional use as detailed in this Ordinance Code [sic] exist, that the use conforms to the Comprehensive Plan and that it is compatible with the existing neighborhood. Any stable for the housing of horses or mules, operated for remuneration, hire, sale, or stabling, or any stable, not related to the ordinary operation of a farm. Transitional Habitat. Offices or private firms or organizations which are primarily used for the provision of executive, management, or administrative services. Typical uses include truck dealerships, construction equipment dealerships, mobile home dealerships, and sales (but specifically excluding dismantling or salvage of vehicles). Information regarding format requirements and submittal materials required for the application will be made available by the City Administrator in advance of any application. any land used to raise or store trees, shrubs, flowers, and other plants for sale, facilities for the display and sale of those items and/or of gardening supplies, and accessory greenhouses, storage buildings, or customer parking areas. SHOPPING CENTER OR MALL. Land carried on the Williamson County Appraisal District tax rolls as agricultural land, or which is used for the purpose of conducting agricultural activities. In this case, the City Administrator shall report this action in writing to the City Council and place the modified Conditional Use Permit directly on the City Council agenda for action at the Councils next meeting. Redevelopment. 7. The termination of, or termination of an interest in, an easement, right-of-way, or public dedication of land. Postal services, including post offices, bulk mail processing or sorting centers, operated by the United States Postal Service. 4. Substantial Detriment. Any sign affixed to a wall of a building in a nonparallel manner. The applicant would suffer a hardship in the absence of a variance that is not the result of the applicants own negligence; and, 2. In other words, maximum impervious cover applies to an entire development, whereas maximum lot coverage applies to individual lots. Any accessory use may be permitted provided there is association with a primary use that may be permitted in accordance with Section 4.8 [sic] of this Code. If the Comprehensive Plan is amended, the Code should also be amended if found to be necessary or advisable by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The City Administrator or his/her designee shall have the authority to issue a sign violation notice and shall be empowered to enter upon the premises of any person within the City or its extraterritorial jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing the provisions herein. The City Administrator or his designee may involve representatives of or request assessments from other agencies and departments and consultants. City of Round Rock Design and Construction Standards. Any type of building sign attached to, in any manner, or made a part of a canopy. B. I. Lot Depth. There is a substantial change in circumstances relevant to the issues and/or facts considered during the original review of the application that might reasonably affect the decision-making bodys review of the relevant standards to the development described in the application; or, B. 3. Grading. Useable open space available for use by the occupants of more than one dwelling unit; controlled and maintained by a property owner or an incorporated nonprofit homeowners association; or dedicated in fee to, and maintained by, a public agency and devoted to use by residents who will occupy the dwellings. All text amendments shall be in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan. ft. duplex multifamily lots within a high-density urban residential neighborhood (and modify the widths and setbacks), H. Max Lot Coverage = Total amount of impervious cover per lot (including building and impervious areas). Buffer Width is based on the following Buffer Intensity Classifications: Class 1: Cemeteries, golf courses, passive recreational areas, wholesale nurseries, day care homes. Before the City initiates the process for suspension or revocation of a permit or other form of approval pursuant to this Code, the City Administrator or Building Official or another designee of the City Council shall give written notice of intent to suspend or revoke via certified mail, return receipt requested. Double-Faced Sign. If the TIA threshold is exceeded, the applicant shall be so advised on the TIA Determination Worksheet and referred to the City Administrator or his designee for consultation concerning the preparation of a TIA. Any system, whether publicly or privately owned, serving multiple lots, dwelling units, businesses, commercial or industrial establishments for the collection, transportation and disposal of sewage or industrial wastes of liquid nature, including various devices for the treatment of such sewage and industrial wastes. Any previous written interpretations. This district is further intended to encourage efficient utilization of land, affordable housing opportunities, open space preservation, and traditional neighborhood development, through pedestrian-friendly, suitable residential neighborhoods, protected from incompatible uses and with necessary facilities and services. No plat shall be recommended without a determination that the plat conforms to the following: 1. 7. These include water, wastewater, stormwater drainage, roads, and open space resources. B. 100-Year Floodplain. Certificate of Occupancy. The purpose of this Chapter is to assure that subdivision and site development projects constructed within the City of Liberty Hill and its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), are adequately furnished with necessary public infrastructure. 4. The City and its agents shall enforce and ensure compliance with the provisions of this Code and shall take necessary and appropriate actions to prevent or cease any violations of the provisions of this Code. These services include: 1. 1.0 OVERVIEW Page 1-2 1.0 OVERVIEW . A. The interpretation given by the Manager shall be final unless an appeal is made by the applicant to the City Council or Board of Adjustment to review and overturn his decision. Waterfowl. Hospital Services (General). The City Council may also reduce the buffer width along a property line by an amount not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of the width of a public utility easement if the easement is located on the property line and in the same location or orientation as the buffer yard. Agricultural (AG). Failure to do so shall authorize the City to complete the improvements using the fiscal surety provided by the landowner or developer. Developable Land (or Area). Any future development permits must comply with the final approved development ordinance. When an existing lighting fixture(s) become inoperable, their replacements are subject to the provisions of this Code. Typical uses include new and used car dealerships, motorcycle dealerships, and boat, trailer, and recreational vehicle dealerships. The first application must be submitted within twelve (18) [sic] months from the date site plan approval is granted. This Code shall become effective and be in full force and effect immediately following its passage and approval by the City Council, as duly attested by the Mayor and City Secretary. As used in this Ordinance Code [sic], plat shall be a map of a tract of land showing boundaries of individual lots, outlots, parcels, and outparcels, and streets, easements and rights-of-way prepared in accordance with this Ordinance Code [sic] as an instrument for recording in the official Public Records of Williamson County. TxDOT. 3. Rubbish. Upon initiation of the civil action, the City shall demonstrate that the defendant was actually notified of the provisions of the Code; and that after receiving notice, the defendant committed acts in violation of the Code or failed to take action necessary for compliance with the Code. B. The decision of the City Council shall be final. To change the runoff characteristics of a parcel of land in conjunction with residential industrial, commercial, or institutional construction or alteration. G. The City Engineer is responsible for final action on Construction Plans. The impervious cover standards are essential in order to manage or avoid the adverse problems of excessive quantity and degraded quality of urban stormwater runoff, increased erosion of downstream channels and waterways, reduced interception and absorption of rainfall and runoff by the soil and vegetative cover, increased reradiating of excessive heat from large pavement surfaces, and other related problems that can arise as a result of intensive urban development. No variance shall be granted unless the City Council finds all of the following: 1. A use providing professional or consulting services in the fields of law, architecture, design engineering, accounting, and similar professions. Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND). The covered, painted over message must not show through the paint. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS/OBS-79/3 1). D. The following are required for the use, display, maintenance, or permitting of an alteration of any abandoned sign or supporting structure regardless of when the sign was abandoned:[.]. 1. The boundaries of the recharge zone shall encompass all land over the Edwards Aquifer, recharging the same, as determined by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ formerly TNRCC) and the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD). No Trespassing, No Hunting, and No Fishing Signs placed by the landowner. Long term storage of operating or nonoperating vehicles. A. A. Any sign that is directly lighted by an external source. During the course of providing for improvements, the City shall cooperate with the developer in the use of its governmental powers to assist in the timely and cost effective implementation of improvements. E. Continue a Violation. No buffers shall be required for property in the Downtown Overlay District although some landscaping and buffering standards may apply per the conditional use permitting process. The actual start of construction is the placement of slab or footings, piles, columns, or actual placement of a manufactured home. The permit will not be approved unless the lot has direct access to an improved public street, private street, or an approved public way, and connected by improved public street to an improved public thoroughfare. Upon written receipt of an application requesting an Administrative exception or adjustment, the City Administrator may request the BOA to consider an administrative exception or adjustment. Competent evidence. 2. A use providing education or training in business, commerce, language, or other similar activity or occupational pursuit, and not otherwise defined as a home occupation, college or university, or public or private educational facility. A determination whether an application is complete will be made by the City Administrator within fifteen (15) working days of submittal of the application. Landscaping, Perimeter. Any such prohibition must be prospective and shall not apply to a mobile home previously legally permitted and used or occupied as a residential dwelling within the city. C. No building permit or certificate of occupancy may be issued for any parcel or tract of land until such property has received final plat approval and is in conformity with the provisions of this Code, the plat has been recorded, public improvements have been accepted by the City (if applicable), and no private improvements will take place or be commenced except in conformity with these regulations in this Code. Any sign that is deemed dilapidated by the City Administrator on or before the adoption date of this Section, the owner shall remove the sign within 30 days after receiving written notice from the City Administrator or the adoption of this Section, whichever is later; 2. The adopted City of Liberty Hill Drainage Master Plan. The construction of improvements and the provisions for participation in costs by the City shall be included in a subdivision improvement agreement. A roof-like structure of a permanent nature which may be freestanding or projected from a wall of a building or its supports. Comprehensive Plan. A. Facade. E. A nonconforming use shall not be extended or rebuilt in case of obsolescence or total destruction by fire or other cause. Two or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and using common cooking facilities, provided that unless all members are related by blood or marriage, or legal adoption, no such shall contain more than four (4) nonrelated persons. Criteria for Approval. If the City Administrator finds that it is complete, the application shall then be processed. Plat, Preliminary. Publicly maintained traffic-control devices. Community service is a use that can be allowed in a residential area with a special use permit. Parapet. CULTURAL SERVICES. The City Engineer must be a registered professional engineer, licensed by the State of Texas and competent in the design and review of land development and urban public works. Side Yard, Corner. Building Setback Line. To meet with potential applicants in preapplication conferences as described in this Code; 4. Any permit, certificate or license issued in conflict with the provisions of this Code is null and void. Child Care Center (or Day Care Centers). Manufactured Home, HUD Code. Administrator. A written authorization to construct, erect, or alter a structure or building as issued by the City Administrator. A. Furthermore, the financial institution shall be reviewed and approved in advance and the letters of credit or bonds shall conform to forms or criteria approved in advance by the City Council. The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained. Equipment Sales. Agriculture includes, but is not limited to, the related activities of tillage, fertilization, pest control, harvesting, and marketing. Any animated, rotating, fluttering or nonstationary device made of flexible materials designed to attract attention. For purposes of a subdivision plat, when a 30 day extension has been issued, the application is deemed to have been denied but still subject to review by the City of the applicable review authority. Any sign erected at a private residence identifying its address or the residents name. Revisions to this standard shall only be considered with respect to fire protection capability. Variances. The length of all the property fronting on one side of a street between the two nearest intersecting streets, measured along the line of the street; or if dead-ended, then all of the property abutting on one side between an intersection street and dead end of the same. These design criteria and technical specifications are the latest version as adopted by the City Engineer. 5. Riparian Habitat. The Site Plan must be reviewed by the City Administrator for compliance with this Code. B. An unfinished enclosure constructed of flood resistant materials used solely for parking of vehicles, storage, or building access in an area other than a basement is not the lowest floor, as long as it is supplied with water equalizing vents. Floodway. 1. If the City Council determines there is a failure to comply with any term, condition, or requirement made a condition of the variance or special use permit, the City Council may revoke the variance or special use permit or take such action as it considers necessary to ensure compliance. Unified Development Code Text Amendment. An accessory use as a personal service or profession or use customarily conducted within a dwelling carried on by a resident thereof, which does not change the residential character of the dwelling. Comprehensive Drainage Plan. No such excavation or development shall be lawful or permitted to proceed without issuance of a site development permit. Minimum Lot Width. Approvals and permits issued pursuant to this Code shall expire according to the following Table 3-2. 5. Chapter 2 sets forth the specific responsibilities and authority for each administrative official and review entity as it relates to the implementation of this Code. Subdivision-related procedures are necessary to establish how individual lots or projects may be developed. O. A building in which one or more specializing physicians and/or dentists have their offices. A plat or replat or site development permit will not be approved unless lighting requirements as defined in this Code are met. Sound Pressure. The notice is deemed delivered when deposited in the United States Postal mail, with postage paid to the last known address of the party responsible for such sign. A dwelling not a mobile home or manufactured home, on its own lot, and designed, arranged, or used exclusively for the use and occupancy of two families living independently of each other. 6. C. The BOA will be constituted and conduct all activities in accordance with the Code and all other applicable Codes, and any adopted Bylaws. Capable of being seen (whether or not legible) by a person of normal height and visual acuity while walking or driving on a public road. Exterior Features. Building, Principal. 3. The CRZ is measured as one foot of radial distance outward from the trunk for every inch of the tree caliper, and may not be less than a radius of eight feet[.]. A master sign plan shall be required for all multiple-tenant buildings, PUDs, and all multibuilding or multioccupant commercial developments before any signs for such development may be erected on the property. Nature-Dominated. Monument Sign. B. In the event the City Council fails to make a ruling on the variance within sixty (60) days from the date the application for variance is filed, the application for variance shall be deemed denied. 11. Any building which houses a primary or principal use of the land on which it is located. A person to whom development rights are transferred and all persons who have any lien, security interest, or other interest with respect to development rights held by the transferee. Principal Use. Initial Default Zoning. These uses may locate in districts as indicated under special conditions. Gross Residential Density. During the course of installation and construction of the required improvements, the City Engineer or another designee of the City Administrator shall make periodic inspections of the work to insure that all improvements comply with this Code and other municipal, county and State requirements. B. Rezoning from Default Zoning. D. It is expressly understood that, as a condition to the approval of said subdivision or site development, no sale of any lot may be completed until all utilities are installed and all other improvements required by this Code are made within the block in which said lot is contained. 3. Minimum Lot Area. It is computed as the total amount of impervious surface on the lot divided by the total lot area. A resource that can renew or replace itself and, therefore, with proper management, can be harvested indefinitely. Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the dead and dedicated for cemetery purposes, including columbariums, crematoriums, mausoleums, and mortuaries when operated in conjunction with and within the boundary of such cemetery. Applications must include all materials determined necessary by the City Administrator. The conference is an opportunity for an applicant to describe the development that will be submitted and for the City Administrator to explain the development process (i.e., which application is appropriate, which review body is responsible for final action, what the potential timelines for review may be, and what criteria will be used to determine whether the application may be approved). For developments planning to utilize on-site treatment systems, please consult the Williamson County rules for On-site treatment standards. The purpose of this district is to provide for development of quality multiple-family living in a moderately dense setting, at a density not to exceed 10 units per acre. In lieu of the obligation to dedicate or improve thoroughfares or make traffic-control improvements or post fiscal surety for subsequent construction to achieve road adequacy, the applicant may propose to make equivalent cash contributions based upon the development projects proportionate share of the costs of improvements, which the City in its sole discretion may accept in satisfaction of road adequacy standards in this section. June. Shared Open Space. L. For corner lots, the side yard setback on side facing public right-of-way shall meet the same as front yard setback. Moving Message Board. Any facilities owned and maintained in common by the inhabitants of the development, including, but not limited to, drives, water systems, sewer systems, parking areas, open space, club houses, amenities, and developed recreation areas. The square foot area enclosed by the perimeter of the sign. To increase the density of a use above that permitted by the applicable district. Adjustment of Numerical Standard. A dwelling that is joined to another dwelling at one or more sides by a party wall or walls. Additionally, as provided in subsection (g) of this section, this section shall not apply to the types of ordinances, or other governmental action, enumerated in VTCA Local Government Code 245.004 or exempt from the requirements of Local Government Code 43.002. Suspended Sign.