SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 9.459 acres to Faulkey Gully Municipal Utility District.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 9.459 acres to Faulkey Gully Municipal Utility District be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Faulkey Gully Municipal Utility District (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1973, and currently consists of 950.868 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 9.459 acres of mixed land. Currently, there are private utilities to be removed and proposed to be developed as multi-family residential property, to the District. The proposed annexation tract is located in the vicinity of Spring Cypress Road, North Eldridge Parkway, Waterford Estates Court, and Ginger Fields Lane. 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 Faulkey Gully Municipal Utility District Wastewater Treatment Plant. This regional plant also provides wastewater treatment to Malcomson Road Utility District. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Faulkey Gully Municipal Utility District is Faulkey Gully, which flows into Cypress Creek, which flows to Spring Creek, then to the San Jacinto River, and finally into Lake Houston. Faulkey 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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Randall V. Macchi
Chief Operating Officer
Houston Public Works