SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 11.830 acres to Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 24.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 11.830 acres to Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 24 be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 24 (the “District”) was created through TCEQ in 1974, and currently consists of 322.558 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 11.830 acres of developed institutional land, a new transportation facility, to the District. The proposed annexation tract is located in the vicinity of Mills Branch Drive, Ford Road, Flanders Drive, and West Lake Houston Parkway. 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 Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 24 Wastewater Treatment Facility. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 24 is Mills Branch, which flows into the Houston Ship Channel. Mills Branch is within the San Jacinto River watershed. 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