19-R-12 Landmark Properties & Heritage NeighborhoodsIN
A RESOLUTION
RECOGNIZING TEXAS DESIGNATION OF LANDMARK
PROPERTIES A, :r HERITAGE NEIGHBORHOODS D OTHER
MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH
WHEREAS, The City of Schertz and the Schertz Historical Preservation Committee (SHPC)
feels it important to recognize places that represent unique features of the City landscape either
by their nostalgic, aesthetic, architectural, historic or symbolic character, and.
WHEREAS, The City of Schertz Comprehensive Land Plan emphasizes the need to preserve and
enhance the City's rich history and culture, and
WHEREAS, The City of Schertz specifically desires to recognize and promote preservation of
those historic structures that comprise the most valued historic elements of the community's past
through increased awareness of their existence, and
WHEREAS, The Schertz City Council as a matter of public policy aims to preserve, enhance and
perpetuate those aspects of the city having historical, architectural, archaeological, nostalgic,
aesthetic, or symbolic attributes and which may have an enduring impact on the city's cultural
identity, and
WHEREAS, The City of Schertz desires to recognize places that represent unique features of the
City landscape, neighborhood development, aesthetic architectural, or symbolic character, through
the creation of either heritage neighborhoods or landmark property designations, and
WHEREAS, The heritage neighborhood and/or landmark property designations shall be of such
a nature as to be free of the designation status as per Chapter 442, Section 315.006, of the Texas
Local Government Code, and
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS
THAT:
Section 1. The City Council hereby establishes a process to recognize landmark
properties and heritage neighborhoods as per the procedures outlined in Exhibit "A ".
Section 2. The recitals contained in the preamble hereof are hereby found to be true,
and such recitals are hereby made a part of this Resolution for all purposes and are adopted as a
part of the judgment and findings of the City Council.
Section 3. All resolutions or parts thereof, which are in conflict or inconsistent with
any provision of this Resolution are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict, and the
provisions of this Resolution shall be and remain controlling as to the matters resolved herein.
Section 4. This Resolution shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws
of the State of Texas and the United States of America.
Section 5. If any provision of this Resolution or the application thereof to any person
or circumstance shall be held to be invalid, the remainder of this Resolution and the application of
such provision to other persons and circumstances shall nevertheless be valid, and the City Council
hereby declares that this Resolution would have been enacted without such invalid provision.
Section 6. It is officially found, determined, and declared that the meeting at which
this Resolution is adopted was open to the public and public notice of the time, place, and subject
matter of the public business to be considered at such meeting, including this Resolution, was
given, all as required by Chapter 551, Texas Government Code, as amended.
Section 7. This Resolution shall be in force and effect from and after its fmal passage,
and it is so resolved.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, this 5th day of February, 2019.
ATTEST:
City Secretary, Brenda Dennis
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Michael R. Carpenter
Designation of landmark properties and heritage neighborhoods.
A. Purpose and applicability. The purpose of this section is to recognize and encourage the preservation
of those areas or specific buildings or structures of significance to the City. More specifically, to achieve
the following goals:
To preserve, protect and enhance significant sites and structures that represent unique elements
of the City landscape either by their aesthetic, architectural, nostalgic, or symbolic attributes in
relation to persons, place and /or time.
2. To strengthen civic pride through neighborhood preservation and recognition.
3. To provide application submission and review guidance relating to the designation of properties
and /or sites.
B. Application Requirements. Any request for the designation of a landmark property or heritage
neighborhoods shall be initiated by completion of an application form as set forth in the Schertz
Historical Preservation Committee's (SHPC) By -laws.
C. Processing of Application and Decision.
Submittal. All applications under this section shall be submitted to the SHPC. The SHPC shall
review the application for completeness and notify the applicant of items requiring correction or
attention before providing a written recommendation on the application. Any interested citizen, to
include SHPC members, may initiate an application.
Approval Procedures. Applications for landmark properties and heritage neighborhoods shall be
considered and voted upon at the SHPC's next quarterly meeting following application submission
and after the notification of property owner's before the tenth (10th) day before the hearing by the
SHPC. Approval will require a two- thirds positive vote by members present. The SHPC may
disapprove the nomination for reasons of incomplete and /or unsupportable data. If disapproved,
the nominator will be notified in writing by SHPC as to the reason(s) for disapproval and given
thirty (30) days to resubmit the nomination form with corrected or supplemental data. If no reply
is received by the thirty (30) day deadline the nomination is considered closed without further
action required.
The approved SHPC nominations will be forwarded to the City Manager for placement on a City
Council agenda within thirty (30) days of receipt. Written notice shall be provided to the owner of
the property before the tenth (10th) day before the hearing date of City Council. The City Council
shall vote on all designation nominations and will require a majority of Council members to
approve the nomination. The nominator will be notified in writing by the SHPC of City Council
approval /disapproval.
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