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Council reviews draft municipal utility district policy to manage growth in Amarillo’s ETJ
Summary
City staff and outside counsel presented a proposed policy to govern municipal utility districts (MUDs) in Amarillo’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, emphasizing infrastructure standards, financial safeguards and options for annexation and retail utility service.
The Amarillo City Council heard a detailed briefing on a proposed municipal utility district (MUD) policy intended to guide development that occurs in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ).
Aliyah Vincent, an attorney with Allen Boone Humphreys Robinson who consulted on the draft, told the council the policy is aimed at “providing predictability, certainty, and consistency” when MUDs are created outside the city limits. Vincent said the draft requires that public infrastructure built in a MUD comply with city development standards and proposes development agreements, utility agreements and a strategic partnership agreement as the core documents that would govern…
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