Management Districts are special districts created by the Texas Legislature. Generally, these districts are empowered to promote, develop, encourage, and maintain employment, commerce, transportation, water and sewerage improvements, housing, tourism, recreation, arts, entertainment, economic development, safety, and public welfare. Typically, management districts are given the power to finance their operations by issuing bonds or other obligations, payable in whole or in part as valorem taxes, assessments, impact fees or other funds of the district to provide improvements and services.
Harris County Improvement District No. 17 was authorized by the 81st Legislature in 2009, with the original creation area being in Houston’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). This was followed by the City of Houston consent to add 606.1394 acres of land into the District in 2017. The District then decided to change its name to Harris Montgomery Counties Management District and added a 50.671-acre tract of land in 2021. In addition, the District added 4 tracts that add up to 242.1688 acres of land in 2022. The current name of the District is Southeast Regional Management District. This District is located entirely in Harris County and the ETJ of the City of Houston. None of it falls within Houston’s corporate limits.
The Board of Directors of the Southeast Regional Management District has now submitted a Petition requesting the City of Houston’s consent to the addition of approximately of 82.0912 acres of land to the District. The addition of land is necessary to preserve, maintain and enhance the economic health of the District, and will be developed for single-family residential.
A management district is intended to supplement, not supplant, existing public services. The addition of land to this district would not release Harris County of the City of Houston from its obligations to provide services to the area, nor does it require additional services from the City. The City assumes no liability for the debt’s obligations or liabilities of the district.
The Planning and Development Department recommends City Council consent to the addition of 82.0912 acres of land to the Southeast Regional Management District.
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Margaret Wallace Brown, AICP, CNU-A
Director
Planning and Development Department