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Dallas council unanimously approves exception allowing city water to be reserved for property outside city limits
Summary
The Dallas City Council voted 8-0 to adopt Ordinance 19-07, which memorializes historic water service to a property outside the city limits and urban growth boundary and allows the owner to reserve the right to re-establish two water services in the future.
The Dallas City Council on an 8-0 roll call adopted Ordinance 19-07 to establish a special exception to the prohibition on providing city water to property outside the city limits and urban growth boundary. The ordinance specifically memorializes previously established water service to a property on 2255 Elliot Road and allows the owner to reserve the right to re-establish two water services in the future.
City staff told the council the two water services at 2255 Elliot Road sit on a city water line that extends beyond the property and that those services were established decades ago. The property owner is asking to decommission the two active services now but to retain the option to reactivate services later; the ordinance formalizes the city’s willingness to reestablish those connections despite the property being outside the urban growth boundary.
The council discussed records retention for ordinances; staff said ordinances are permanent records maintained by the city and retained in the state archive system. The record of the ordinance and the vote will be kept in the city’s ordinance files and state archives.
The ordinance passed on a roll-call vote with every council member voting yes.
