This section defines terms used in the subchapter, including “port use,” “port zone,” “protected zone,” and “zoning ordinance.”
Sec. 5002.151. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: (1) “Port use” means any use permitted or allowed, with or without a special use permit, in the following zoning districts under the zoning ordinance, or any additional use subsequently permitted or allowed in the following zoning districts under an amendment to the zoning ordinance: (A) a zoning district designated as DT, C-1, C-2, C-3, or W-1; or (B) a zoning district designated as “IN," other than heavy industrial or other heavy industrial uses as defined in the zoning ordinance. (2) “Port zone” means: (A) the lands within the protected zone that are located both south of West Eighth Street and east of Cherry Street; and (B) all lands east of Farm-to-Market Road 1495 that are included within the Plat and Dedication of the Freeport Townsite recorded in Volume 2, at Page 95 of the Brazoria County Real Property Records. (3) "Protected zone” means the portion of the corporate limits of the City of Freeport as they exist on September 1, 2023, that lies: (A) within the enclosed space bounded by beginning at the intersection of State Highway 36 and the center of the Brazos River, then north along the center of the Brazos River to the intersection of the center of the Brazos River and the center of the DOW fresh water canal, then north and east along the center of the DOW fresh water canal to the intersection of the center of the DOW fresh water canal and Farm-to-Market Road 1495, then south along Farm-to-Market Road 1495 to the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1495 and State Highway 36, and then west along State Highway 36 to the intersection of State Highway 36 and the center of the Brazos River; (B) within Brazoria County 2020 United States Census tract 664501 blocks 2027, 2032, and 2034; (C) within the enclosed space bounded by beginning at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1495 and the Intracoastal Waterway, then west along the Intracoastal Waterway to the intersection of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Brazos River, then south along the Brazos River to the Gulf of Mexico, then east along the Gulf of Mexico to the intersection of a line extending from the southern terminus of Farm-to-Market Road 1495 due south to the intersection with the Gulf of Mexico, and then due north to the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1495 and the Intracoastal Waterway; (D) adjacent to the old Brazos River channel and inside the floodgate, which is zoned as a W-1 District under the zoning ordinance, and bounded by Farm-to-Market Road 1495 on the west; (E) within the portion of Brazoria County 2020 United States Census tract 664200 blocks 2059, 2060, and 2061 that lies within 3,500 feet of the centerline of State Highway 332; (F) within the 13.316 acre tract of land described in that certain Deed recorded in Volume 11199, at Page 471 of the Brazoria County Real Property Records; or (G) within the 56.751 acre tract of land described in that certain Deed of Exchange recorded in Volume 86286, at Page 927 of the Brazoria County Real Property Records. (4) "Zoning ordinance" means Chapter 155, Code of Ordinances, of the City of Freeport, Texas in effect on January 1, 2023. Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 785 (H.B. 5336), Sec. 1, eff. June 13, 2023.