2025-024 - Denying Petitions to Disannex 71.20 Acres of Land Forming A Portion of the Current Southeastern Boundary of the City, Located Along and South of State Highway 271 South

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are further notice requirements before the 90th day after the city adopts or amends the annexation plan. 1. Annexation Powers: , RPE (A) Provision rsardi x Annexation pf a Paris is a home rule city, and a home rule municipality can take the following actions if provided by the city's charter,-, (1) Fix the boundaries of the municipality; (111) Exchange area with other municipalities. 2. Annexation Procedures: (A) A municipality may annex area only in its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETI) unless the municipality owns the area (TLGC., Sec.43.051). (B) There are annexation hearing requirements. (C) The annexation of an area must be completed within 90 days after the date the governing body institutes the annexation proceedings or those proceedings are void. (D) A city cannot annex a publicly or privately owned area, including a strip of area that follows the course of a road.. highway.. river, stream, or creek, unless the width of the area at its narrowest point is at least 1,000 feet. (There are several situations where this requirement does not apply. TLGC., Sec -43-054). (E) In any calendar year, a municipality cannot annex a total greater than ten percent (10%) of the incorporated area of that municipality as of January I of that year, plus any amount of area carried over to that year (under subSection (b) of Sec. 43.055, TLGC). An annexed area is not included in this calculation if annexed at the request of the property owners of the area, 'or if the area is owned by the municipality, a county, the state,, or the federal government and used for a public purpose. Further, a municipality carrying over an allocation cannot annex in a calendar year, a total area greater than thirty (30) percent of the incorporated area of the municipality as of January 1 of that year, (F) Service Plans to Annexed Areas. - K