06-25-12 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT (“Agreement”), made and entered into pursuant to the Texas Interlocal Cooperation Act, Chapter 791, Texas Government Code ("Agreement") by and between the City of Pasadena, Texas (the "City of Pasadena") a municipal corporation and the City of La Porte, Texas (the "City of La Porte") a municipal corporation WITNESSETH WHEREAS, the Texas Local Government Code provides that adjacent municipalities may by mutual agreement apportion their extraterritorial jurisdictional boundaries (ETJ); WHEREAS, La Porte and Pasadena have areas within their respective ETJ that they desire to apportion to promote the orderly growth and development of their respective jurisdictions; WHEREAS, La Porte and Pasadena find that apportionment of their ETJ boundary lines will be to the benefit of the citizens of both cities and their adjacent areas and will facilitate planning and services which contribute to orderly growth and development of the regional areas; WHEREAS, La Porte and Pasadena now desire to apportion their exclusive ETJ boundary lines, whereby La Porte will release from its exclusive ETJ certain land to be relinquished to and become part of the ETJ of Pasadena and subsequently to be annexed by Pasadena into its corporatelimits, and Pasadena will relinquish to La Porte its exclusive ETJ rights to certain land to be relinquished to and become part of the ETJ of La Porte; WHEREAS, that approximate99 acre tract (the "Pasadena Annexation Property") described on Exhibit "A" attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein for all purposes, is a part of and within the exclusive extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of La Porte; WHEREAS, that approximate 73 acre tract (the "La Porte Property") described on Exhibit "B" attached hereto and by this reference incorporated herein for all purposes, is a part of and partiallywithin the exclusive extraterritorial jurisdiction and partially within the corporatelimits of the City of Pasadena; WHEREAS, the City of Pasadena and the City of La Porte desire to adjust the boundaries of the City of Pasadena and the City of La Porte, such that the Pasadena Annexation Property shall become a part of the exclusive ETJ of the City of Pasadena, and the La Porte Property shall become a part of the exclusive ETJ of the City of La Porte;