SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of two (2) tracts of land totaling 0.6932 acres to Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No. 84.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of two (2) tracts of land totaling 0.6932 acres to Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No. 84 be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No. 84 (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1963 and currently consists of 1,198.2895 acres within Harris County. The District is within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston (the “City”) and has petitioned the City for consent to add 0.6932 acres of vacant land, proposed to be developed as single-family residential property, to the District. The proposed annexation tracts are located in the vicinity of Elgin Street, Ashland Boulevard and Sheldon Road. The addition of land to the District does not release it from the City’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.
The Utility District Review Committee has evaluated the application with respect to wastewater collection and treatment, potable water distribution, storm water conveyance, and other public services.
The District has a wastewater collection system and treatment facility. The annexation tracts will be provided with wastewater treatment by Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No. 84 Wastewater Treatment Plant. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No. 84 is Carpenters Bayou, which flows to the Barge Channel, and then into the Houston Ship Channel. Carpenters Bayou is within the San Jacinto River watershed. The proposed annexation tracts are not within the 100- or 500-year floodplain.
By executing the Petition for Consent, the District has acknowledged that all plans for the construction of water conveyance, wastewater collection, and storm water collection systems within the District must be approved by the City prior to their construction.
The Utility District Review Committee recommends that the subject petition be approved.
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Randall V. Macchi, JD
Director, Houston Public Works