SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of seven (7) tracts of land totaling 31.14 acres to Southern Montgomery County Municipal Utility District.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of seven (7) tracts of land totaling 31.14 acres to Southern Montgomery County Municipal Utility District be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Southern Montgomery County Municipal Utility District (the “District”) was created through the Texas Water Rights Commission, predecessor to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in 1972, and currently consists of 1,804.40 acres within Montgomery County. The District is within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston (the “City”) and has petitioned the City for consent to add seven (7) tracts of mixed land totaling 31.14 acres, proposed to be developed as multi-family residential and commercial property, to the District. The proposed annexation tracts are located in the vicinity of Spring Creek, South Park Drive, Robinson Road, and Geneva Drive. 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 the Southern Montgomery County Municipal Utility District Wastewater Treatment Plant. This regional plant also provides wastewater treatment to the City of Oak Ridge North. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Southern Montgomery County Municipal Utility District is Spring Creek, which flows into the San Jacinto River, and finally into Lake Houston. The proposed annexation tracts are within the 100 year floodplain (92%), and partially within the 500 year floodplain (4%).
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.
_______________________________
Carol Ellinger Haddock, P. E.
Director
Houston Public Works