SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 108.097 acres to Northwest Freeway Municipal Utility District.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 108.097 acres to Northwest Freeway Municipal Utility District be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Northwest Freeway Municipal Utility District (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1977, and currently consists of 399.178 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 108.097 acres of vacant land, proposed to be developed as industrial property, to the District. The proposed annexation tract is located in the vicinity of U.S. 290, Roberts Road, Little Cypress Creek, and Becker 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 tract will be provided with wastewater treatment by the Northwest Freeway Municipal Utility District. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Northwest Freeway Municipal Utility District is Little Cypress Creek, which flows into Cypress Creek, then to Spring Creek, then to the San Jacinto River, and finally into Lake Houston. The proposed annexation tract is 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