SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of six (6) tracts of land totaling 58.987 acres to Intercontinental Crossing Municipal Utility District.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of six (6) tracts of land totaling 58.987 acres to Intercontinental Crossing Municipal Utility District be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Intercontinental Crossing Municipal Utility District (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 2015, and currently consists of 159.271 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 six (6) tracts of mixed land totaling 58.987 acres, proposed to be developed as industrial property, to the District. The proposed annexation tracts are located in the vicinity of Farrell Road, Intercontinental Crossing Drive, Eastveld Drive, and Aldine Westfield 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. The annexation tracts will be provided with wastewater treatment by the City of Houston's Intercontinental Airport Wastewater Treatment Plant via Northwood Municipal Utility District No. 1. Potable water is provided by the Northwood Municipal Utility District No. 1 Water Plant No. 1.
The nearest major drainage facility for Intercontinental Crossing Municipal Utility District is Greens Bayou, which flows into the Houston Ship Channel. 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