SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 6.875 acres to Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 64.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 6.875 acres to Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 64 be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 64 (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1976, and currently consists of 514.86 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 6.875 acres of vacant land, proposed to be developed as single family residential, multi-family residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and other property to the District. The proposed annexation tract is located in the vicinity of Franz Road, Katy Hockley Cut Off Road, Morton Road, and Katy-Fort Bend 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 Williamsburg Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant. This regional plant also provides wastewater treatment to Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 61, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 62, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 63, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 64, Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 65, West Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 2, West Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 5, and Westside Ventures, Ltd. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 64 is Mason Creek Tributary, which flows into Buffalo Bayou, and finally into the Houston Ship Channel. Mason Creek Tributary is within the Barker’s Reservoir 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