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Council discusses long‑term strategy for extraterritorial jurisdiction amid state legislative uncertainty
Summary
Council members and staff debated options for preserving growth options in Pflugerville’s ETJ, including EDC land acquisitions and contiguity strategies, while noting pending state legislation could limit annexation and ETJ authority.
Council members spent part of the work session discussing a long‑term strategy for the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), with members urging continued planning and land‑purchase strategies while flagging state legislative proposals that could curb annexation authority.
Council Member David Rogers said the discussion was prompted by “some proposals…in the legislature currently to strip us of extraterritorial jurisdiction entirely,” and recalled that the city’s previous master‑planning relied on annexation authority that has since been partially…
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