DEPARTMENT: Department of Planning & Community Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Dugan
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: None
SUBJECT:
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Agreement with the City of Somerset
SUMMARY:
An ordinance authorizing the City Manager to execute an extraterritorial jurisdiction agreement with the City of Somerset for the release of approximately 1.8 square miles (1,163 acres) of land from the City of San Antonio to the City of Somerset.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
State law allows cites with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, such as Somerset, to have a one-half mile ETJ (Somerset has approximately 1,671 residents.) Texas cities may expand their ETJ via population growth or by expanding their corporate limits and hence extending their ETJ area outward. Cities also may expand their ETJ to area contiguous to their existing ETJ beyond the distance allowed by state law, if the property owner requests to be added into their ETJ. State law also permits cities to seek the release of another city's existing ETJ area with the written consent from the releasing city's governing body.
The City Council of the City of Somerset approved a resolution in April 2012 authorizing the request to the City of San Antonio for the release of ETJ to extend the City of Somerset ETJ one-half mile north of its present city limits. By doing so, the City of Somerset would possess a full one-half mile ETJ around its entire perimeter. A similar request from the City of Von Ormy was approved by City Council on September 1, 2011. ETJ was also released to the community of Sandy Oaks on November 21, 2013 to support a request for incorporation.
The majority of the subject area is located within an area governed by the Atascosa Rural Water Supply Corporation (WSC) Certificate of Convenience and Necessity (CCN) for water services, though an area of approximately 408 acres is in the former Bexar Met service area, which is now served by the San Antonio...
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