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PDF Ord# Date Subject Description

18 MB		 4503 2017-08-21 Street Amending Chapter 15 of the City Code establishing rules and regulations governing the use and occupancy of the City’s rights-of-way by providers of utility, telecommunications, wireless and cable services, and adopting a design manual for the installation of network nodes and node support poles pursuant to Texas Local Government Code, Chapter 284.

1 MB		 4502 2017-08-21 Sanitation Amending Chapter 14 of the City Code regarding commercial solid waste collection rates, effective October 1, 2017.

1006 KB		 4501 2017-08-21 Parks Amending Chapter 10.5 of the City Code designating all municipal property dedicated for park and recreation purposes, including walks, drives, roads and parking facilities within and adjacent to park facilities, as City Parks.

7 MB		 4500 2017-08-21 Code - Fire Amending Chapter 8, Article VII, of the City Code by updating references to correspond with the International Fire Code, 2015 Edition, by deleting unnecessary wording, clarifying the suspension and revocation process thereby updating alarm system regulations.

3 MB		 4499 2017-08-21 Code - Fire Correcting Ordinance No. 4486 which amended Chapter 6 of the City Code by correcting the section numbering and by providing certain nonsubstantive amendments and deletions under Chapters 1, 2 and 6 of the International Fire Code, 2015 Edition.

1 MB		 4498 2017-08-07 Misc. Amending Chapters 1, 4 and 16 of the City Code creating a Citation Program.

586 KB		 4497 2017-07-17 Personnel Increasing the number of positions in the Mesquite Police Department in the classification of Police Officer from 188 to 191 and establishing the classifications and total number of authorized positions in each classification of the Mesquite Police Department.

3 MB		 4496 2017-07-03 Zoning Imposing a moratorium on applications and plans for development for permits, plats, verifications, rezonings, site plans and new or revised certificates of occupancy for truck stops and other development that includes the parking of heavy load vehicles as a principal use or as an accessory use within the corporate city limits of Mesquite, adopting written findings justifying the moratorium, providing for waivers and limited exceptions to the moratorium, and establishing an expiration date.

893 KB		 4495 2017-07-03 Zoning Zoning Application No. Z0517-0008, submitted by Gatti’s Great Pizza, for a rezoning from Commercial and Town East Retail and Restaurant Area (TERRA) Overlay to Commercial and TERRA Overlay with a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow a coin-operated amusement game room with more than four game machines, located at 2021 N. Town East Blvd., Suite 900.

1 MB		 4494 2017-07-03 Zoning Zoning Application No. Z0517-0006, submitted by Waseem Subhani dba Once Upon A Child, for a change of zoning from Commercial to Commercial with a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow the sale of used merchandise on property located at 3501 Gus Thomasson Road, Suite 63.

893 KB		 4493 2017-07-03 Zoning Zoning Application No. Z0517-0003, submitted by Laine Edwards on behalf of Peter Piper Pizza, for a rezoning from Commercial and Town East Retail and Restaurant Area (TERRA) Overlay to Commercial and TERRA Overlay with a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to allow a coin-operated amusement game room with more than four game machines, located at 1104 Town East Mall.

1 MB		 4492 2017-07-03 Approp - Budget Amending the budget for the fiscal year of 2016-17 as heretofore approved by Ordinance No. 4441 of the City of Mesquite, Texas, adopted on September 19, 2016, appropriating and setting aside the necessary funds out of the general and other revenues of the City of Mesquite for fiscal year 2016-17 for the maintenance and operation of various departments and activities of the City, for capital and other improvements of the City and for all other expenditures included in said amended budget.

2 MB		 4491 2017-07-03 Code - Building Amending Chapter 5 of the City Code thereby clarifying the City Council’s intent to continue extending the application of the building and construction codes to the City’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) and the City’s authority to issue building permits for construction in the City’s ETJ.

1 MB		 4490 2017-06-19 Franchise - Gas On second and final reading, approving a negotiated settlement between the Atmos Cities Steering Committee (ACSC) and Atmos Energy Corporation, Mid-Tex Division (Company) regarding the Company’s 2017 Rate Review Mechanism (RRM) filings; declaring existing rates to be unreasonable; adopting tariffs that reflect rate adjustments consistent with the negotiated settlement; finding the rates to be set by the settlement tariffs to be just and reasonable and in the public interest; requiring reconciliation and rate adjustments if federal income tax rates change; terminating the RRM process or 2018 pending renegotiation of RRM terms and conditions; requiring the Company to reimburse ACSC’s reasonable ratemaking expenses; determining that this ordinance was passed in accordance with the requirements of the Texas Open Meetings Act; adopting a savings clause; declaring an effective date; and requiring delivery of this ordinance to the Company and the ACSC’s legal counsels.

5 MB		 4489 2017-06-19 Abandonment Providing for the partial abandonments of a 10-foot-wide utility easement and a 30-foot fire lane and utility easement located at the Market East Shopping Center, 1645 and 1649 Town East Boulevard.

606 KB		 4488 2017-06-19 Penal - Traffic Amending Chapter 9 of the City Code regarding the location of school zones by adding a school zone for Florence Elementary School along Ashwood Drive between Oates Drive and Whitson Way.

710 KB		 4487 2017-06-05 Code - Building Amending Chapter 5 of the City Code regarding permitted materials for fences.

17 MB		 4486 2017-05-01 Code - Fire Amending Chapter 6 of the City Code thereby adopting the 2015 Edition of the International Fire Code, effective June 1, 2017.

492 KB		 4485 2017-05-01 Issuance of Bonds Adopting Supplement No. 53 to the Code of Ordinances for the City of Mesquite.

18 MB		 4484 2017-05-01 Issuance of Bonds Authorizing the issuance of City of Mesquite, Texas, Waterworks and Sewer System Revenue Refunding and Improvement Bonds, Series 2017, approving an official statement, authorizing the execution of a purchase agreement and an escrow agreement, making provisions for the security thereof, providing an effective date and ordaining other matters relating to the subject.
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