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-_~-- Minutes, Public Hearin La Porte City Coun~ g December 5, 1983, Page 10 Mr. Trahan: What is the time frame for getting utility services • to commercial buildings out here? Mayor Cline: The only thing I can advise you on if they have been denied services in the past, when the annexation passes the. public works department will take a look at it and I'm sure try to provide the service if at all possible. We'd have to look at why they were denied. is it because they had to put in their own line or something like that? In that case we'd have to take a look at it. Unknown: Why is La Porte going to annex us in the first place? Councilperson Westergren: Let me ask you a question. If you've lived in this area for any number of years you certainly have noticed the growth continuing to happen in our area. Between College View and the City of La Porte there is a large undeveloped area that is under no zoning whatever. Anyone who wished to put anything there could get water and sewer permits and put anything they chose to do. In the interest of protecting not only us but also you, it is vitally important to have control over what is happening around you and you don't at this time. If a person wanted to build an industrial plant between you and us they could do that without annexation. That's one of the major reasons. • Comments were then made on the pros and cons of annexation from the audience and Council. Mr. Christ: If ya'll annex us, then an industrial district can't come in between you and us? Councilperson Westergren: Everything coming in will be zoned residential. This can be changed, but the likelihood of it is highly doubtful. Councilperson Skelton: And if it's changed there will be a public hearing; you'll have input on it; the Planning and Zoning Commission, etc. Questions were asked about permits, etc., when building or re- pairing homes. Mayor Cline explained the function of the Code Enforcement Division and the advantages of having their services. Councilperson Skelton: Mayor, I'd like for Mr. Malone to repeat what he said in regard to Lomax joining the City of La Porte, because I had never heard his real feelings before.. Councilperson Malone: We went through the same thing you're going through now when Lomax joined La Porte. We selected a committee and our committee met with the City Council. It was a consolidation. there, not an annexation, which was a little difference.. The best thing that ever happened to Lomax was to consolidate. We got some streets paved, some ditches cleaned out and mowed, we've got good garbage pickup and we've got good water. We don't have the problems we used to have and I think it was one of the best moves Lomax ever made.