19 & 20 - DISANNEXATION REQUESTS 36TH NE AND FM 79

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PART II: PURPOSE & INTENT The City of Paris seeks to annex property within its extraterritorial jurisdiction for the following purposes: • To promote orderly growth by facilitating long -range planning for the provision of municipal services and by applying appropriate land use regulations, development standards, property maintenance standards, fire codes, construction codes, and environmental regulations. • To diversify the economic base and create job opportunities by annexing property for commercial and industrial development. To fulfill these purposes, the city has formulated this annexation policy in order to: Provide the city council with more specific, objective, and prescriptive guidance for making annexation decisions. Enable the city to be more proactive in identifying areas for annexation by providing for a regularly updated annexation program. • Provide for meaningful public participation in formulating the annexation program as part of the regular update of the city's comprehensive plan. Issues that should be considered include: • Physical Boundaries Proposed annexations should acknowledge, so far as possible, existing or proposed physical features which can constitute boundaries between different areas. For example, natural features such as rivers, streams, or pronounced topographic changes, and man -made elements like railroads and existing or planned expressways and freeways, can be appropriate boundaries between the annexation areas of two or more communities. • Legal and Administrative Boundaries Invisible boundaries are sometimes just as important as the strong visible barriers just described. County lines are permanent political boundaries that can serve as appropriate annexation limits. Though existing property lines, easements, corporate limits and the administrative boundaries of park districts, fire protection districts, and elementary and high school districts, can and do change, they should be respected as far as possible to avoid confused jurisdictions and administrative problems. • Natural Drainage Divides Because of the high capital costs associated with sanitary sewer installations (as well as, of course, other utility installations), municipalities should typically annex within natural drainage basins to achieve the economies of gravity sewer flow. In areas, however, where, for example, a countywide sewer system has been proposed, drainage divides are less important as a guideline for annexation boundaries. 10