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Denton council backs resolution urging restoration of local down‑zoning authority
Summary
The council voted to support House Bill 24, which staff said would restore local governments’ authority to initiate down‑zoning without written consent from all affected property owners; the resolution passed by voice vote.
The Denton council voted to adopt a resolution backing House Bill 24, a measure staff described as restoring local governments’ authority to initiate down‑zoning.
Staff member (S8) told commissioners that related language was approved in the Senate in December 2024 and that the current law requires written consent from every property owner affected by a down‑zoning. “This was approved December 2024 through the Senate bill 382 and it basically said that down‑zoning … provides that local governments cannot adopt a down‑zoning without written consent from all of those who are impacted,” S8 said, explaining why the resolution supports restoring that authority to the local level.
Council members discussed the resolution briefly and a motion to support the bill was made and seconded; the council approved it by voice vote.
The resolution is advisory: it expresses the town’s support for state legislation and does not itself change local zoning. Staff said the measure would return discretion to local governments to adopt zoning changes for areas such as mixed‑use downtowns when a single property owner would otherwise block reclassification. The council did not record a roll‑call tally in the transcript.
The council will transmit the adopted resolution to relevant state representatives and legislative partners as part of local advocacy on land‑use authority.
