SUBJECT: Petition for the City’s consent to the creation of 117.142 acres as Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 612.
RECOMMENDATION: Petition for the City’ consent to the creation of 117.142 acres as Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 612 be approved.
SPECIFIC EXPLANATION: The owners of 117.142 acres of land, located within Harris County and in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston (the “City”), have petitioned the City for consent to create a district. The name of the proposed district shall be Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 612 (the “District”). The proposed District consists of vacant land and is proposed to be developed as industrial and commercial property. The proposed District is in the vicinity of Sam Houston Parkway, Anderson Road, Hiram Clarke Road, and Almeda Road. The creation of 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 will have a wastewater collection system. The District will be provided with wastewater treatment by the Almeda Sims Wastewater Treatment Plant. Potable water will be provided by the City.
The nearest major drainage facility for Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 612 is Sims Bayou, which flows into the Houston Ship Channel. The proposed creation is not within the 100-year floodplain or 500- year floodplain.
By executing the Petition for Creation, 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, JD
Director, Houston Public Works