Tex. Local Government Code § 378.002: CREATION OF ZONE.

A municipality may create a neighborhood empowerment zone covering a part of the municipality if the municipality determines the creation of the zone would promote:

(1) the creation of affordable housing, including manufactured housing, in the zone;

(2) an increase in economic development in the zone;

(3) an increase in the quality of social services, education, or public safety provided to residents of the zone; or

(4) the rehabilitation of affordable housing in the zone.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 305, Sec. 1, eff. May 29, 1999.