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Consider and take action on Ordinance 2025-36 authorizing a Utility Agreement with Baybrook Municipal Utility District No. 1 and BC-SB Baybrook JV, LLC, consenting to the annexation of approximately 450 acres known as the Midline Tract into Baybrook MUD 1, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the Agreement - Second Reading (Executive Director of Development Services)
Council approved the first reading, 5-2-0 with one absent on September 9, 2025.
Background:
Approval of this ordinance will authorize a utility agreement with BC-5B Baybrook JV, LLC. (Developer) on behalf of Baybrook Municipal Utility District No. 1 (BMUD 1) to allow for the annexation of approximately 450 acres within League City into the existing BMUD 1. A municipal utility district (MUD) is a political subdivision of the State of Texas authorized by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to provide water, sewage, drainage, roadways and other utility-related services within the MUD boundary. The purpose of the MUD is to provide a developer with an alternative way to finance the infrastructure within the MUD. A MUD sells bonds to generate income so that the MUD can reimburse a developer for authorized improvements. A MUD then repays its bond debt by assessing taxes on the property owners within the MUD.
BMUD 1 was created in 1984 and is petitioning to annex approximately 450 acres of land, commonly referred to as the “Midline Tract”.
Included in the ordinance is the consent to the annexation of the Midline Tract into BMUD1. BMUD 1 will be used for the purpose of furnishing water, sanitary sewer, drainage, park and recreational, and road facilities and services to the area within its boundaries. The portion of the District within League City will be 450 acres of undeveloped property. The area is to be developed to include residential and commercial developments as well as an area dedicated to the City for a community park (15 acres in size) and an ~ 4-acre site fo...
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