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Ability toProvide Services!Facilities <br />Properties or an area should be annexed only to a municipality willing and able to provide fire <br />and police protection an1 refuse collection. sanitary sewer and water service <br />within a reasonable period of time. Provision of sewer and water service should, however, not <br />be at the expenseof a reas a Ireadywithin the municipality.• not have these services. <br />recog- <br />nizableAnnexations should be encouraged and enhanced that have the effect of consolidating <br />community's corporate area and reducing the irregularities that previous annexations may hav-- <br />/ <br />costsmore logical shape for administering services. Also, more logical and easily definable <br />configurations of annexed property also provide the development community with <br />opportunities oftentimes to create developments that are more efficient and aesthetically <br />pleasing. Annexation lines should be drawn so as to avoid ribbons or odd pieces of <br />unincorporated land between communities. It is preferable for municipalities to abut and have <br />a common boundary rather than be separated by a small unincorporated area. <br />Cost -Revenue Analysis <br />The deficit of income to be realized from the annexed area against the expenses to th_- <br />municipality in serving it should be reasonable. Cost -revenue analysis, a topic in itself and <br />beyond the scope of this report, can compare the annexation area's potential revenue base with <br />the of !example,• rn should be given to <br />situation!. subdivision that was notbuilt to that city's <br />subdivision standards..therefore, <br />municipality may have to pay for upgrading said potentially annexed subdivision. <br />Economic Develoinirnpnt <br />In conjunction with cost -benefit analysis, Paris can use annexation, where appropriate, as a tool <br />to stimulate local. regional economic• • implement sound, •capital <br />improvement programming. A sub -tool for this kind of economic development could be, for <br />example, • /partnerships/ <br />Comprehensive Plans and / :, <br />Texas does not. 1 r. / areas. Therefore,• 1 <br />should be zoned as soon as possible to be in conformance with the annexing municipalities' <br />future / use plan within its comprehensiveplan. . does n• <br />manner, the municipality runs the risk of having its recently annexed area developed with land <br />uses that may be incompatible with that citys land use plans, growth -goals, and policies. <br />Parks, Recreation, 1OI)enSpace <br />Oftentimes, parks, recreation, and open space plans can be more fully implemented if linkages <br />can be made to other parks elements, to increase citizen use, city design, and aesthetic features. <br />In certain instances, therefore, it could be an important factor to annex areas outside of Paris <br />that • •enhance trail systems, as well as use environmental• presumably <br />outside flood 1and/orother environmentally <br />historicalor <br />JA.� <br />67 <br />