SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of two (2) tracts of land totaling 5.9885 acres to Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 15.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of two (2) tracts of land totaling 5.9885 acres to Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 15 be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 15 (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1978, and currently consists of 556.883 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 two (2) tracts of vacant land totaling 5.9885 acres, proposed to be developed as commercial property, to the District. The proposed annexation tracts are located in the vicinity of Lakewood Grove Sec. 3/ Spring Cypress Road, North Eldridge Parkway, Spring Cypress Road/ Gregson, and Lakewood Spring Drive/ Shady Canyon Lane. 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 Northpointe Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. This regional plant also provides wastewater treatment to Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 273, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 280, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 281, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 282, and Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 15 is Cypress Creek, which flows into Spring Creek, then to the San Jacinto River, and finally into Lake Houston. 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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Carol Ellinger Haddock, P. E.
Director
Houston Public Works