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City attorney outlines 2025 Texas legislative changes affecting Murphy, highlights land-use and notice rules
Summary
City attorney gave an overview of 2025 state legislation affecting municipalities, emphasizing land-use changes tied to residential development, notice requirements for zoning changes, manufactured-housing rules, open-meetings adjustments and other statutory changes staff will address with ordinances or policy work.
Murphy — At the Oct. 21 meeting the city attorney provided Council with a legislative-summary briefing covering new state laws the city must consider, with particular emphasis on land-use and notice changes affecting residential development.
The attorney told council that the 2025 legislature filed thousands of bills and that staff are already preparing policy responses; he said the Texas Municipal League tracked roughly 2,200 bills and that 262 bills tracked by TML passed.…
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