23 - Disannexation Request 3197 FM 1497Item 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.
Consequently, disannexation of the property would not create any impermissible islands or
keyholes. The church is not on city water or sewer but benefits from all other city services. As the
church is tax exempt, the city receives no ad velorem taxes on the property.
Should Council wish to undertake disannexation proceedings with respect to this property, the
following procedure will need to be followed:
January 22, 2024—City Council Meeting—The City Council will discuss the petition and
determine whether or not to proceed. If Council wishes to proceed, it should consider and act upon
the accompanying resolution authorizing the disannexation process. Should Council decline to
proceed, it should consider and act upon the accompanying resolution declining to proceed. This
is in the discretion of the Council. If Council determines to proceed, from here, the entire process
must be complete within 90 days. If council determines not to proceed, there will be no further
action on the petition.
If Council chooses to proceed:
January 23—February 8, 2024—The city attorney will send out notices to other taxing entities,
service providers, and railroads as necessary, which must be done at least 30 days before the first
of two public hearings.
February 20—February 29, 2024—Publish notice of first public hearing in the Paris News
(publication must be between the 20th and the 10th day out from the 1St public hearing)
February 27—March 7, 2024—Publish notice of second public hearing in the Paris News
(publication must be between the 20th and the 10th day out from the second public hearing).
Note: The city may publish a single notice for both hearings on either Tuesday, February
27th or Thursday February 29t1i or Thursday July 1St as the two notice periods overlap.
March 11, 2024—City Council Meeting -1St public hearing (public hearings must be held
between the 40th and 20th days out from action on the ordinance to disannex)
March 18, 2024—Special Meeting, City Council -2nd public hearing (in order to get in both
hearings done in that 20 day period, and because of our 2nd and 4th Monday schedule and how that
falls on the calendar, Council will have to hold a special meeting to get in the 2nd public hearing)
April 8,2024—City Council Meeting—Act on ordinance to disannex (day 77 from institution of
disannexation proceedings).
BUDGET: None. The owner is tax exempt and does not pay ad velorem taxes on the property.
OPTIONS: 1. Discuss and act on a resolution stating the intent of city council to institute
disannexation procedings on the property located at 3197 FM 1497 (LCAD Parcel
103,154).
2. Discuss and act on a resolution making findings of fact and denying the petition
of First Pentecostal Church of Paris to disannex the property within the city limits
of the City of Paris and located 3197 FM 1497 (LCAD Parcel 103,154).
RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends neither for nor against the relief requested in the
petition for disannexation.
Disannexation Request - 6055 Clarksville St Legend
Existing City Limits
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Property Being Disannexed
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