SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 3.00 acres to Meadowhill Regional Municipal Utility District.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 3.00 acres to Meadowhill Regional Municipal Utility District be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Meadowhill Regional Municipal Utility District (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1971, and currently consists of 911.9182 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 3.00 acres of vacant land, proposed to be developed as an office warehouse property, to the District. The proposed annexation tract is located in the vicinity of Spring Cypress Road, Krahn Road, Kreinhop Road, and Falvel 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 Meadowhill Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. This regional plant also provides wastewater treatment to Shasla Public Utility District, Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 28, and Klein ISD. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Meadowhill Regional Municipal Utility District is Kothman Gully, which flows into Cypress Creek, which flows into Spring Creek, then to San Jacinto River, and finally into Lake Houston. Kothman Gully is within the Cypress Creek 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