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City attorney outlines 2025 Texas legislation that will change local rules for zoning, development and public records
Summary
City Attorney Karen Horner briefed the council on dozens of bills from the 2025 Texas legislative sessions that she said will affect municipal authority over zoning notices, home‑based businesses, manufactured homes, impact fees, open‑meetings posting and other topics.
City Attorney Karen Horner gave the Friendswood City Council a wide‑ranging briefing Aug. 25 on bills passed in the 2025 Texas legislative sessions she said will affect city authority over zoning, development, public safety and municipal operations. Horner told the council the legislature introduced substantially more bills affecting cities this session and that roughly 20% of the bills that passed addressed municipal matters. She summarized measures that, in her view, clarified zoning‑notice procedures, limited local regulation of no‑impact home‑based businesses, established new rules for manufactured homes and single‑family construction and changed procedures for impact‑fee…
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