City of Plano staff has been working cooperatively with City of Carrollton and Town of Hebron representatives to recommend a safe, uniform, and efficient city boundary alignment along our western city limits.  The purposes for these changes are as follows:

1.  Ensuring that street right-of-way (ROW) is owned and maintained by either the City of Plano or City of Carrollton. 
   
   
2. Ensuring the continuity of each cities’ boundary to preserve the legal status of the property.
   
   
3. Simplifying and accurately defining each jurisdiction’s boundary in this area, with minimal or no impact to adjacent property owners.

The proposed adjustment attributes public safety services and infrastructure to the cities, rather than the Town of Hebron due to its extremely limited resources.  The Town of Hebron presently runs through this area, generally with a ten-foot strip of land connecting parcels, which are a part of that community.  Currently, some of the Charles Street right-of-way is part of the town of Hebron, which creates safety hazards, maintenance concerns, and confusion over local responsibility, especially when traffic incidents span three jurisdictions in a single roadway.  In order to meet these objectives, Hebron must be located on private property between Plano and Carrollton, and we are proposing alignments immediately adjacent to the street for the sake of simplicity. 

The changes are detailed in the attached ordinance and are summarized in the attached maps, which compare existing and proposed conditions.  The changes shown on the attached maps are summarized below:

•  Hebron moves east of and adjacent to Charles Street right-of-way; and
  
  
•  Carrollton moves to the east right-of-way line of Charles Street and east of the intersection of Charles Street and Plano Parkway; and
  
  
•  Plano moves east of Hebron.

In addition to the changes within the right-of-way, the adjustments will have a minimal impact on four properties in Plano.  Staff reached out to these property owners and provided them information related to the proposed changes.  Denton County Appraisal district staff reports that minor divisions to a parcel, less than 5 percent, are very unlikely to result in a change to the taxing entity, so the properties will likely remain entirely within the City of Plano’s jurisdiction due to the minor nature of the changes.  The proposed ten-foot strip amounts to the following changes within the affected properties:

• 2301 Marsh Lane – 5,072 square feet; 1.0% of the property
  
  
• 2601 Marsh Lane – 5,846 square feet; 0.7% of the property
  
  
• 7040 Plano Parkway – 5,645 square feet; 3.1% of the property
  
  
• 7080 Plano Parkway – 6,054 square feet; 2.4% of the property

Additionally, Jonathan Wheat, Director of Engineering for the City of Carrollton provided information regarding medians, drives, and other concerns regarding street access.  Mr. Wheat confirmed that any future changes to access conditions would have to comply with City of Carrollton ordinances, but that he has no concerns with existing conditions, and there are no ordinance changes currently being considered.

The proposed changes will result in a safe, uniform, and efficient city boundary alignment along our western city limits.  At this time, the boundary adjustments have been approved by the Town of Hebron Town Commission.  After the action taken by the City of Plano City Council, the adjustments will move forward to the City Council of the City of Carrollton for the final step in the approval process.

Approval of this agenda item will support the City's Critical Success Factor of Residential and Commercial Economic Vitality.