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Annexation Request for Palmetto Drive and Plan of Services - Annexation
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SUMMARY: The owner of Lots 38, 39, 40, & 41 of Plat 1 of Mount Crest Subdivision as recorded in plat book 8 page 82 is requesting annexation and/or the extension of low-pressure sewer to his lots. These lots are also identified as Tax Map 112D group J parcels 001.00, 003.00, 004.00, and 019.00. The annexation would also include approximately 970 feet of Palmetto Drive. The owner has discussed with local soil scientists and was informed that none of the lots would "perk" for construction of even a single home. The owner has indicated that if annexation were not feasible, that he would request the extension of outside city sewer to the lots.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff is recommending the denial of annexation. From discussions with the city manager and other members of staff it was corridor annexations are an issue the city should be trying to correct or close and not create new ones. The city recently did do a corridor annexation along Canary Drive which involved a sewer line extension. Staff considered it a smaller corridor annexation that affected 4 outside city houses whose road in front of their house would be city and could potentially provide sewer to 2 more additional vacant lots, if they were to request annexation as well. If this corridor annexation were to take place, then 10 existing homes would be outside city with the road adjacent to them inside city as well as a short dead-end cul-de-sac, which would not be inside the city or a city street. It would be providing 5 vacant lots with the potential of sewer. That number does include the 4 lots requested in the annexation. Staff recommends the denial of the annexation with a recommendation to the property owner that he contact the properties between his and the existing city limits to provide a more contiguous city limit boundary.
Regarding the extension of outside city sewer, the new Water and Sewer Connections and...
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