13 - DISANNEXATION REQUESTS AIRPORT ROAD AND WILDWOOD LANEItem No. 13
memorandum
TO: City Council
John Godwin, City Manager
FROM: Kent McIlyar, City Attorney
SUBJECT: Disannexation Requests Airport Road and Wildwood Lane
DATE: July 24, 2015
BACKGROUND: At the June City Council meeting, Boyd & Deborah Hudgens, Charles Keys
and several other residents with property inside the city limits near Airport Road and Hwy 271
came before the City Council and requested the Council to consider disannexing their properties
from the City of Paris because they do not receive city water or sewer service in that area. Mr.
Godwin informed the City Council that while these property owners receive city services such as
police, fire and EMS, the City does not have immediate plans to run water or sewer lines down
Airport Road, because there is already a Lamar County Water Supply District (LCWSD) water
line serving the area and there is not enough population or development in the area to justify
running long sewer lines and lift stations in the area. David Denison also appeared before City
Council requesting that his five acre residential lot on Wildwood Lane be disannexed from the
City.
STATUS OF ISSUE: The City has now received disannexation requests from nearly every
landowner in Tract 12 (northwest of FM 1508 /Airport Road) and every landowner in Tract 8
(south of FM 1508 /Airport Road).
City staff has reviewed all requests for disannexation received from landowners in Tract 12 and
Tract 8 against the City's Policies and Procedures for Annexation/Disannexation and state law
and have prepared a draft map of disannexation showing the land which will remain inside the
corporate city limits in green and the parcels which are eligible for disannexation in red. Note
the importance of maintaining a land connection between the core of the City of Paris and the
Cox Field acreage and the Agpro Property on the City's eastern city limits line.
PROCESS: The process for disannexing properties from the City of Paris requires two public
hearings over a 40 -day period and publication of notice of the public hearing 10 -20 days prior, as
well as notice to Lamar County, School Districts and Railroad Companies. Once the City
Council directs staff which parcels are to be disannexed it will take approximately 90 days to
completion.
BUDGET: Loss of property tax revenue from disannexed lands.
RECOMMENDATION: Provide direction to staff.