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ANNEXATION POLICY <br />I. PURPOSE AND INTENT <br />The City of Paris seeks to annex property within its extraterritorial jurisdiction for the following <br />purposes: <br />• To promote orderly growth by facilitating long -range planning for the provision of <br />municipal services and by applying appropriate land use regulations, development <br />standards, property maintenance standards, fire codes, construction codes, and <br />environmental regulations. <br />• To diversify the economic base and create job opportunities by annexing property for <br />commercial and industrial development. <br />To fulfill these purposes, the city has formulated this annexation policy in order to: <br />• Provide the city council with more specific, objective, and prescriptive guidance for <br />making annexation decisions. <br />• Enable the city to be more proactive in identifying areas for annexation by providing for <br />a regularly updated annexation program. <br />• Provide for meaningful public participation in formulating the annexation program as <br />part of the annual update of the city's comprehensive plan. <br />II. DEFINITIONS <br />Annexation — The legal process by which a city extends its boundaries. A city may annex <br />property only within its extraterritorial jurisdiction, unless the city owns the area. The city <br />enforces all ordinances, provides services as provided by law, and assesses property taxes and <br />sales taxes. <br />Annexation Plan — A document required by Texas Local Government Code, Section 43.052, <br />identifying certain kinds of areas that a city intends to annex. <br />• The plan must identify any areas with 100 or more separate lots or tracts of land <br />containing residential dwellings that the city intends to annex, unless more than 50 <br />percent of the property owners request annexation. <br />• The plan may also identify other areas. <br />• Areas that are identified in the plan may only be annexed three years after the plan is <br />adopted. <br />Annexation Policy — A set of guidelines to assist in making annexation and disannexation <br />decisions. <br />