DEPARTMENT: Department of Planning & Community Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Dugan, AICP
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: District 10
SUBJECT:
An Ordinance approving an Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Agreement with the City of Garden Ridge releasing approximately 13 acres of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ).
SUMMARY:
A request by the City of Garden Ridge for the release of approximately 13 acres of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) from the City of San Antonio to the City of Garden Ridge. The subject area is a portion of a 111.64 acre tract generally located northeast of San Antonio in Comal County, north of Bindseil road, South of Park Lane Drive, and West of Bat Cave Road in the City of San Antonio ETJ. Staff recommends approval. Planning Commission recommended approval at their April 22, 2015 public hearing.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
State law allows cites with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, such as the City of Garden Ridge, to have a one-half mile ETJ (Garden Ridge has approximately 3,450 residents.) Texas cities may expand their ETJ via population growth or by expanding their corporate limits and hence extend their ETJ area outward. Cities also may expand their ETJ to contiguous areas that are 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 from a neighboring municipality.
The City Council of the City of Garden Ridge approved a resolution in December 2013 authorizing the request to the City of San Antonio for the release of identified ETJ. The owner and developer of the property has requested annexation by the City of Garden Ridge so that the entirety of the proposed subdivision will be within their corporate limits. The proposed development consists of 111.647 acres, 98.647 acres of which are located within the corporate limits of Garden Ridge.
ISSUE:
The City...
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