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Keene adopts updated official city limits map reflecting decades of annexations
Summary
The Keene City Council unanimously approved Ordinance No. 2026-694 to adopt an updated official city limits and ETJ map that incorporates every annexation ordinance the city could find going back to 1955 and corrects boundary lines with neighboring jurisdictions.
Keenecity staff presented and the City Council adopted an updated official city limits map that staff said compiles every annexation ordinance since incorporation and corrects extraterritorial jurisdiction lines.
"We dug out every single ordinance we could get our hands on, going back to 1955 when the city was incorporated, so that we could have a city limits map that represented every annexation," Miss Russell, the staff member who presented the map, said during the meeting. She told council the draft corrects ETJ lines consistent with agreements reviewed by Cleburne, Alvarado and Burleson.
The map adds several recently annexed subdivisions and developments, including new growth on the west side and the Canyons near the Keene Independent School District boundary. Council members asked whether areas surrounded by city limits could be involuntarily folded into the city; staff and other council members explained current state law limits unilateral annexation and that annexation typically brings city services and can affect utility rates and property values.
Councilmember (S6) moved to adopt Ordinance No. 2026-694, "adopting an amended official map of the municipal boundaries and extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Keene," and the motion was seconded and carried by voice vote.
The mayor closed the matter after the vote; the approved map will be used for city planning and to inform subsequent ward-boundary adjustments required by election rules.
