R-83-542 - 9/22/1983RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROUND ROCK, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING PROCEDURES RELATED
TO ANNEXATIONS OF THE CITY, AND TO REQUIRED SERVICE
PLANS SETTING FORTH A SCHEDULE FOR EXTENDING
MUNICIPAL SERVICES TO NEWLY ANNEXED AREAS; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Municipal Annexation Statute, Article 970a,
V.A.C.S., requires two public hearings prior to annexation of
any tract of land by any incorporated city, and to require
preparation, consideration, and adoption of a Service Plan
identifying municipal services and a schedule for extending
them to newly annexed areas; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed and fully
considered the procedures set forth herein, and find them to
be proper and acceptable, and in the best interests of the
City, and is therefore of the opinion that they should be
adopted;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK, TEXAS:
Section I. The procedures set forth below regarding
annexations of property into the corporate limits of the City
of Round Rock, and preparation, consideration and adoption of
a Service Plan for each such tract annexed, are hereby
approved and adopted. They shall apply to each and every
proposed annexation of the City of Round Rock for which an
ordinance of annexation has not been considered by the City
Council prior to the effective date hereof.
Section II. The owner of a tract of land, or the owner's
agent authorized in writing, who desires that such tract be
annexed into the corporate limits of the City of Round Rock,
shall file a completed written Petition for Annexation, in
the Office of the Director of Planning. The Petition shall be
furnished by the Director of Planning. Also furnished at the
time of filing the Application, shall be a complete
description of the property proposed to be annexed. If the
property to be annexed is not all or part of a recorded
subdivision, the description shall be a metes and bounds
description and shall bear the seal of a Registered Texas
Professional Engineer or a Registered Texas Surveyor.
Section III. The City Council, by majority vote of a
quorum of its members, may direct the Director of Planning to
implement procedures to annex a specified tract of land into
the corporate limits of the City of Round Rock.
Section IV. Upon filing of a Petition, or direction by
the City Council pursuant to Section III above, the Director
of Planning shall determine the date upon which the
annexation proceedings for the tract may be instituted by the
City Council in accordance with State law, and shall advise
the City Secretary of that date.
Section V. The Director of Planning shall determine the
dates upon which the two required public hearings may be held
to conform with State law, shall schedule such public
hearings, and shall inform the City Secretary of the dates.
Section VI. The City Secretary shall publish in the time
and manner required by law and in a newspaper having general
circulation in the city and in the territory proposed to be
annexed, notices of each public hearing.
Section VII. The first public hearing shall be conducted
with the Director of Planning or his designee presiding, and
may be conducted within the area proposed to be annexed. The
Director of Planning shall cause a report of the public
hearing to be made to the City Council for its review and
consideration.
Section VIII. The second public hearing shall be
conducted by and before the City Council. Annexation
proceedings shall be instituted, in the time provided by law,
by the City Council's reading and /or consideration and /or
adoption of an annexation ordinance.
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Section IX. Upon the filing of a Petition for
annexation, or upon direction of the City Council pursuant to
Section III hereof, the Director of Planning is hereby
directed to prepare a proposed Service Plan that provides for
the extension of municipal services into each area proposed
to be annexed. The Service Plan shall include the following:
A.
A program under which the
will provide:
1. Police protection;
2. Fire protection;
3. Solid waste collection;
4. Maintenance of public
facilities;
5. Maintenance of public
(including lighting);
6. Maintenance of parks
swimming pools;
City of Round Rock
water and wastewater
roads and streets
playgrounds, and
7. Maintenance of any other publically owned
facility, building or service within each
area to be annexed.
B. A program under which the City of Round Rock
will initiate within two and one -half (22)
years, acquisition or construction of any
capital improvements necessary for providing
municipal services for the particular area.
Section X. The proposed Service Plan shall be made
available for inspection by and explained to those persons
attending the public hearings in connection with the proposed
annexation. It may be amended at such hearings in accordance
with State law. Upon completion of the public hearings, the
service plan shall be attached to the ordinance annexing the
area and shall be approved as part of that ordinance. There-
after, it may be amended or repealed in accordance with
Article 970a, V.A.C.S., as now or hereafter amended.
Section XI. This Resolution shall become effective
immediately upon passage.
ATTEST:
RESOLVED this apt day of
Jf NNE LAND, City Secretary
, 1983.
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LAR •' . " 77 ', Mayor
City of Round Rock
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