22 - Disannextion Request - 660 adn 680 CR 32900 LCAD Parcels 50055 and 50056

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Item No. 22 TO: City Council Grayson Path, City Manager FROM: Andrew Mack, Director, Community Development Stephanie H. Harris, City Attorney SUBJECT: Disannexation Request -660 and 680 CR 32900 (LOAD Parcels 50055 and 50056) DATE: May 24, 2021 BACKGROUND: The City has received an application for disannexation by Brandon and Kara Bond for the parcels set forth above. The application requests that the City Council consider disannexing their property located at 660 and 680 CR 32400 (LCAD Parcels 50055 and 50056—see attached maps for location of the property) for the following reasons, which boil down primarily to a lack of provision of city services: Property owners are required to pay city taxes but receive no city utilities. Property is on county water and septic. Property is located on a county road that is not maintenanced by the city. Furthermore property owners are required to pay city trash fees but are not provided with trash pickup. Nothing about said property is maintenanced or provided for by the City of Paris. STATUS OF ISSUE: The only services not currently available to to the property are water and sewer, and there are no plans at this time to extend water and sewer to this area. Water service provided by the Lamar County Water Supply District is available. Bear in mind that "services" include trash collection, which is a rate paying service, and police and fire coverage. Regardless, the property does not meet the City's criteria for considering disannexation (see Policies and Procedures at page 16, attached hereto 16) because (a) this is a request by a single property owner for two contiguous parcels; and (b) disannexation of the property would create a keyhole within the City limits.' ' "The City will consider disannexation of any area within its corporate limits if so requested by a majority of the property owner(s) .... and if The proposed disannexation is part of an identifiable, logical whole (versus individual parcels) which neither creates `holes" inside the existing corporate limits, nor forces any other area of the city outside the revised city limit boundary line (`islands' outside the revised lines)." Policies and Procedures p. 16. [Italics added.]