23 - Disannexation Request 3197 FM 1497

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Item No. 23 TO: City Council Grayson Path, City Manager FROM: Stephanie H. Harris, City Attorney SUBJECT: Disannexation Request -3197 FM 1497 (LOAD Parcel 103,154) DATE: January 22, 2024 BACKGROUND: The City has received an application for disannexation by the First Pentecostal Church of Paris the parcel set forth above. The application requests that the City Council consider disannexing the property located at 3197 FM 1497 (see attached map) for the stated reasons that the property was annexed without the church's knowledge, and that the church does not wish to be located within the city limits. The city annexed the property in 1999 by Ordinance No. 99-034 after all notices and publications required by law. STATUS OF ISSUE: The reasons for requesting disannexation do not fall within any valid reason for disannexation under the City's annexation/disannexation policy or state law; however, as can be seen below, the city limits line (in yellow) moves on a fairly straight line until it gets to the church's property then jags around to take in the church property and the parcel directly to the north. We could find no record of why the annexation line was drawn this way.