Howdy all!
We've increased our signature count by 1,100 signatures in under two days. That's remarkable. Thank you for being informed and for engaging in our petition!
Update from last night's Planning & Zoning meeting. P&Z voted 4-3 (tight vote) to recommend the ROO ordinance forward for Council approval. DESPITE major issues, questions, and concerns brought up...they are moving forward.
A few more issues (recent discoveries) -
It was uncovered last night that there WILL be issues for landlords and renters because of the way the legacy clause in the ordinance is written. See provision in the current NCO handbook (9.2)
Example: You are a landlord/property owner. You rent to 4 unrelated individuals at the time the ROO is adopted. You then rent to a family after the ROO is adopted. You would be prohibited from going back to 4 unrelated. You would also lose this ability IF you would go from 4 to 3, even temporarily (3 months or more). This will cause a 'taking' of value from that property owner and reduce available housing for renters.
The Petition Committee that would be formed to push a petition in a neighborhood would NOT have to be comprised of property owners in that neighborhood. So an outside group of individuals could come in and organize, interfering with the rights of the rights of those property owners.
MONDAY at 4 PM is City Council. Please send emails to Council with the reasons WHY you do not support the ROO:
City Council Members:
Karl Mooney, Mayor - kmooney@cstx.gov
Bob Brick, Place 1 - rbrick@cstx.gov
John Crompton, Place 2 - jcrompton@cstx.gov
Linda Harvell, Place 3 - lharvell@cstx.gov
Elizabeth Cunha, Place 4 - ecunha@cstx.gov
John Nichols, Place 5 - jnichols@cstx.gov
Dennis Maloney, Place 6 - dmaloney@cstx.gov
Speaker protocol – you must register online by 2 p.m the day of the meeting. Please click HERE to register. IF multiple people want to sign up to speak, but give their time to someone (providing up to 10 minutes for that person) 5 individuals will need to sign up. Please click HERE for the full speaker instructions.
Zoom info for the meeting –
Telephone: 877-853-5257
Webinar ID: 957 1223 0405
Internet: https://zoom.us/j/95712230405