Bill White, mayor of Houston as of 2006

Founded in 1836 and incorporated in 1837, Houston is one of the fastest growing major cities in the United States and the largest without zoning laws. The city is the county seat of Harris County. A portion of southwest Houston extends into Fort Bend County and a small portion in the northeast extends into Montgomery County. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1209x1157, 887 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bill White (mayor) Politics of Houston Portal:Houston Portal:Houston/Selected biography/February 2007 Metadata This file contains... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1209x1157, 887 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Bill White (mayor) Politics of Houston Portal:Houston Portal:Houston/Selected biography/February 2007 Metadata This file contains... Bill White William Bill Howard White (born June 16, 1954) is the current mayor of the city of Houston, Texas (January 2, 2004 - present). ... Space City redirects here. ... A typical zoning map; this one identifies the zones, or development districts, in the city of Ontario, California Zoning is a North American term for a system of land-use regulation. ... Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. ... Official website: www. ... Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown Metropolitan Area. ...

The city of Houston has a strong mayor-council government. The City's elected officials, serving concurrent two year terms, are: the mayor, the city controller and 14 members of the city council. Under the strong mayor-council government, the mayor serves as the executive officer of the city. As the city's chief administrator and official representative, the mayor is responsible for the general management of the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced. Mayor-Council government is one of two variations of government most commonly used in modern representative municipal governments in the United States. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... A and public comptrollers who audit government accounts and sometimes certify expenditures. ... A city council is the most common style of legislative government in a city or town. ... Ordinance can mean: A law made by a non-sovereign body such as a city council or a colony. ...

As of 2006, the mayor of Houston is Bill White, who is serving his second term. As the result of a 1991 referendum in Houston, a mayor is elected for a two-year term, and can be elected to as many as three consecutive terms. City council members, who also have a three-term limit, are elected from nine districts in the city, along with five at-large council members, who represent the entire city. Bill White William Bill Howard White (born June 16, 1954) is the current mayor of the city of Houston, Texas (January 2, 2004 - present). ... Ballots of the Argentine plebiscite of 1984 on the border treaty with Chile A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite (from Latin plebiscita, originally a decree of the Concilium Plebis) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... A city council is the most common style of legislative government in a city or town. ...

The current city council lineup was based on a U.S. Justice Department mandate which took effect in 1979. Under the current city charter, if the population in the Houston City Limits goes past 2.1 million residents, the current nine-member city council districts will be expanded with the addition of two city council districts.^[1] Houston is a home rule city and all municipal elections in the state of Texas are nonpartisan. Devolution or home rule is the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at national, regional or local level. ... In U.S. politics, nonpartisan denotes an election in which the candidates do not declare or do not formally have a political party affiliation. ...

Many local lawmakers have been impacted by the city's term limits. Several former city officials—Anthony Hall, Rodney Ellis, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Sylvia Garcia, Martha Wong, Chris Bell, Annise Parker, and Shelley Sekula-Gibbs—chose to run for other elected positions once their terms expired or shortly before they were due to expire. ζōA legislator is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature. ... Rodney Ellis is a member of the Texas Senate for the 13th District, and co-founder of Apex Securities. ... Sheila Jackson Lee Sheila Jackson Lee (born January 12, 1950 in Queens, New York), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. ... Robert Christopher Bell (born November 23, 1959) is a Democratic politician. ... Annise Parker (born May 17, 1956, Houston, Texas) is a Houston-area politician currently holding office as the City Controller of the City of Houston. ... Shelley Sekula-Gibbs (b. ...

Former mayor Lee P. Brown denounced the term limits, saying they prevented incumbents from gaining enough experience in city government. A proposal to double the current two-year term of office has been debated—as of 2005, several candidates for the city council have brought up the issue of whether term limits should be amended or eliminated. Some elected officials from the Greater Houston area within the Texas Legislature—primarily Garnet Coleman and Sylvester Turner—have also spoken out against term limits. Dr. Lee P. Brown (born October 4, 1937) had a successful career in law enforcement for almost four decades before being elected as the first African-American mayor of Houston, Texas on December 6, 1997. ... A term limit is a legal restriction that limits the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. ... The Texas Legislature is the central lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Texas. ... Garnet Coleman is a Democratic state representative from Texas. ...

Houston is considered to be a politically divided city whose balance of power often sways between Republicans and Democrats. The affluent western-central portions of Houston—such as River Oaks and the Memorial/Spring Branch area—consistently vote Republican, while many of the inner city neighborhoods are heavily Democratic. According to the 2005 Houston Area Survey, 67 percent of non-Hispanic whites in the city are declared or favor Republicans while 88 percent of non-Hispanic blacks in the city are declared or favor Democrats. About 58 percent Hispanics (of any race) in the city are declared or favor Democrats. The communities of Kingwood and Clear Lake City in the northeast and southeast portions of the city, respectively, are heavily Republican. The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Democratic Party. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this articles trivia section requires cleanup. ... Clear Lake City is a master-planned community located in southeast Harris County, Texas. ...

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See also: List of Houston mayors, List of consulates in Houston, and Sister cities of Houston

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Notes

1. ^ City Council may grow by two seats. Houston Chronicle.

See also

Houston Portal