SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 18.959 acres to Bridgestone Municipal Utility District.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’s consent to the addition of 18.959 acres to Bridgestone Municipal Utility District be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: Bridgestone Municipal Utility District (the “District”) was created through the TCEQ in 1976, and currently consists of 2,337.3919 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 18.959 acres of vacant land, proposed to be developed as single family residential property, to the District. The proposed annexation tract is located in the vicinity of Spring Cypress Road, TC Jester Boulevard, Pinelakes Boulevard, and Kuykendahl 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 Bridgestone Municipal Utility District Wastewater Treatment Plant No. 1. Potable water is provided by the District.
The nearest major drainage facility for Bridgestone Municipal Utility District is Seals Gully, which flows into Cypress Creek, which flows into Spring Creek, then to the San Jacinto River, and finally into Lake Houston. Seals Gully is within the Cypress Creek watershed. The proposed annexation tract is not within the 100-year 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
Director, Houston Public Works