The phrase "a draft ordinance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a preliminary version of a legal document or regulation that is being proposed for consideration.
Example: "The city council reviewed a draft ordinance aimed at improving local traffic regulations."
Alternatives: "a proposed regulation" or "a preliminary law".
The Laramie Nondiscrimination Task Force presented a draft ordinance to the city council last summer.
But the City Council, responding to a business group and its most vocal members — the owners of Mexican restaurants — is poised to vote next month on a draft ordinance to ban taco trucks and other catering vehicles from Salinas, a farm town about 120 miles south of San Francisco.
The synod commission, which included Bucer and Capito, decided to take the initiative and produced a draft ordinance for the regulation of the church.
But street vendor activist groups are optimistic that a draft ordinance could be ready for the council to consider in the fall.
The draft ordinance would create a process that allows a sign to be protected so that it can be restored, but it also offers incentives for property owners to make life-extending repairs.
The draft ordinance allows people with several roosters to keep up to three as pets, barring complaints from neighbors.
"In limiting the number of roosters on any one property," the draft ordinance states, "the city wishes to balance the desires of individuals to keep roosters with the rights of their neighbors to live in peace and tranquillity".
("Opinions on 'the Draft Ordinance of Levy of and Compensation for the Houses on State-owned Land'" February, 2010).
("Opinions for 'the draft ordinance of levy and compensation for the houses on the state-owned lands,'" Feb. 2010).
All business activities of real estate development are not included ("The secondary opinions for 'the draft ordinance of levy and compensation for houses on state-owned lands,'" Dec. 2010).
The city's "compulsory designation" authority was removed from the draft ordinance after City Council members this spring expressed concern that it would be unfair to property owners.
