19-20 Disannexation Requests-Wildwood Lane

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Itern Nos, 19 & 20 TO: City Council John Godwin, City Manager FROM: Stephanie H. Harris, City Attorney SUBJECT: Disannexation Requests—Wildwood Lane DATE: December 5, 20 17 BACKGROUND: Tile City has received three applications for disannexation from owners of properties on Wildwood Lane: Casey and Ashley Johnson 2355 Wildwood Lane Jeremy and Kristen Archer 2305 Wildwood Lane Sherrie and Jeff White 2401 Wildwood Lane The three applications request that the City Council consider disannexing their property located on Wildwood Lane due to **lack of City services,,, The Johnson and Archer properties are contiguous; the White property is not. These three properties of among 13 along Wildwood Lane in this area within the City limits (see attached rnaps), STATUS OF ISSLJE: The only service not currently available to property owners in the subdivision is sewer, and there are no plans at this time to extend sewer to this area. City water is available to the entire subdivision from a water main to the cast, although some residents have service provided by the Lamar County Water Supply District, (The Johnson property has City water, the Archer property has LCWSD water, and the Whites are currently building a house on their property, but apparently intend to use I.CWSD). Bear in mind that "services" include trash collection and police and fire coverage as well. Regardless, the properties do not appear to rneet the City's criteria for considering disannexation (see Policies and Procedures attached hereto at page 16) because disannexation has not been requested by a majority of the property owners in the area. Moreover, disannexation of the White property X241 t7) Would create a hole within the City limits. The process for disannexing properties from the City of Paris requires two public hearings over a 40 -day period preceded by a 30 -day written notice to all property owners being disannexed and notice to Lamar County, School Districts and Railroad Companies. If the City Council directs staff to disannex the parcel, it will take approximately 9O days to completion. BUDGET, The requested disannexation would deprive the City of the property tax revenue for each property disannexed. RECOMMENDATION: Provide direction to staff