1993-003City of Southlake, Texas
RESOLUTION NO. 93-03
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, OPPOSING THE USE OF
LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE TO DIMINISH LOCAL HOME
RULE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City of Southlake by Resolution No. 89-66 of the
Southlake City Council, passed and approved the 21st day of
November 1989, encouraged the Dallas/Fort Worth International
Airport and the cities neighboring the airport to continue to plan
for the compatibility of the airport with the cities; and
WHEREAS, the City of Southlake recognizes the continued
compatibility between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and
the cities in which the airport is situated is essential to the
continued tranquility and economic prosperity of the airport, its
neighboring cities, the region, and the State; and
WHEREAS, the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board has
proposed a legislative initiative to amend the Texas Municipal
Airports Act to grant the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
Board authority to develop, zone, and regulate land use, and to
acquire property through eminent domain proceedings including
public roads and streets, within the municipal corporate boundaries
of any city in which the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is
situated; and
WHEREAS, the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board has
represented that the Board's legislative initiative is not an
initiative against home -rule authority; and
WHEREAS, the initiative proposed by Dallas/Fort Worth
International Airport will diminish the sovereign rights and
authority of the cities in which the airport is situated, rights
and authority granted all home -rule municipalities by Article XI,
Section 5, of the Texas Constitution; and
WHEREAS, precedential action by the Legislature to limit home -
rule authority will not only diminish local home -rule of the people
in the cities in which Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is
situated, but can lead to the potential further erosion of
municipal home -rule authority throughout the state when special
interest groups are dissatisfied with local home -rule;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SOUTHLAKE, TEXAS, THAT:
Section 1. The City of Southlake continues to encourage
resolution of the differences between Dallas/Fort Worth
International Airport, the cities in which the airport is situated,
and the other neighboring cities.
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Resolution No. 93-03
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Section 2. The City of Southlake encourages the State
Legislature to assure equal home -rule authority to all Texas home -
rule municipalities.
Section 3. The City of Southlake opposes the use of legislative
initiative by special interests to diminish local home -rule
authority.
Section 4. This Resolution shall take effect immediately.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the J day of
1993.
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Andra L. LeGra
ity Secretary
Iyor, GAfy Fickes