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e e REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM Appropriation 2005 Source of Funds: N/A Requested By: Wa n Account Number: N/A Department: Plannine: Amount Budgeted: N/A Report: _Resolution: _Ordinance: -X- Amount Requested: N/A Exhibits: A. Petition for Deannexation B. Ordinance for Deannexation C. Area Map Budgeted Item: _YES -X....NO OVERVlEW At its February 28, 2005 meeting, a workshop item was presented to Council regarding a petition for deannexation of a 1.420 acre tract by the owners of Gas Innovations. Council expressed no opposition to the deannexation request. Mr. Ashley Madray and Mr. Jason Willingham have filed a petItIon with the City for deannexation of a 1.420 acre tract of land in the Enoch Brinson Survey, Abstract 5, which comprises the southernmost portion of the "Gas Innovations" development at 18005 S.H. 225 (see Exhibit "C" - Area Map). Currently, Gas Innovations' site is divided into two separate jurisdictions: the Battleground Industrial District on the north and La Porte city limits on the south. The company's plan is to unite both tracts under an Industrial District Agreement (IDA) within the Battleground Industrial District (re: Madray & Willingham IDA agenda request). Gas Innovations' development calls for expansion of the office and warehouse facilities located on its deannexed tract (Re: Ord. 1540 - 4/1987) which has a current Industrial District Agreement (Re: 2000-IDA-09 - Tom M.R., Inc.). Plans for its city limit tract (requested to be deannexed) consist of paving, fencing, detention and installation of above-ground propane storage tanks to support the company's operations. As a result, the city limits tract gains substantive value when combined with the industrial district tract as part of a larger site unified under a new Industrial District Agreement (IDA) with the City. RESPONSES TO CONCERNS Development of Gas Innovations' site presents an issue that is unique to its area: the consolidation of all of its properties under a single jurisdictional and taxing entity. Therefore, the company's desire is to unite the entire site under a single Industrial District Agreement with the City. In 1987, the previous owner of Gas Innovations' industrial district property (Tom M.R., Inc.) petitioned for deannexation of the 1.079 acre site due, in part, to the fact that City utilities were not available. In 1997, the City invested $67,763 to extend water and sanitary sewer mains across S.H. 146 (south of the Fred Hartman bridge) to facilitate utility service to properties in the city limits as well as the Battleground Industrial District. Acquiring service from these utilities will require the developers to construct a 642' extension of the City's water main from its northernmost boundary at S.H. 146 to and through its southernmost boundary at Strang Road.