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Collin County discusses emergency services district; cities split on including extraterritorial areas
Summary
County staff reported which cities consented to include their extraterritorial jurisdictions in a proposed Emergency Services District (ESD); officials warned residents in excluded ETJs may lack county or ESD fire and EMS service unless their city provides it or they opt out of the ETJ before statutory deadlines.
Collin County officials updated Commissioners Court on April 28 about a petition to create an Emergency Services District covering unincorporated areas and city extraterritorial jurisdictions (ETJs), and outlined options for residents in ETJs that cities choose to exclude.
The county’s presentation listed cities that have given consent to include their ETJs in the proposed ESD — Blue Ridge, Celina, Farmersville, Fate, Josephine, Lebonne, Lowry Crossing, McKinney, Melissa, Murphy, Nevada, Princeton, Weston, Wylie and Royce City — and named cities that have definitively declined: Frisco, Lucas, St. Paul and Van Alstyne. Several cities remain undecided (Anna, New Hope, Parker and Prosper) and others had not responded (Allen, Garland, Hebron and Trenton), county staff said.
The update matters because county staff told the court that if a city does not consent to include its ETJ, residents in that ETJ would not be eligible to vote in the ESD election and, should the ESD be approved,…
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