Mountain City’s Council Meeting this week started seven hours after my deadline, so please look elsewhere in this week’s paper for a follow-up to last week’s front page story that reported from the Kyle City Council a draft Letter Agreement for the City of Mountain City, proposing a swap that would transfer the “Anthem portion” of Mountain City’s ETJ to Kyle’s jurisdiction.
Many know, in 1984 a subdivision previously known as Mountain City Oaks incorporated under the name Mountain City and elected a mayor and city council in order to make impossible a takeover by encroaching cities (particularly Austin). With incorporation came the added protection of a ½-mile buffer out from the city limits, our “extraterritorial jurisdiction”.
It’s safe to say that most in Mountain City do not know that Mountain City’s extraterritorial jurisdiction extends way west on FM 150, past Indian Hills and a narrow panhandle extends from FM 150 northward almost to FM 967. Shortly after our incorporation, contiguous ranches westward went through the legal process to voluntarily place themselves into Mountain City’s ETJ to gain protection from a takeover by encroaching cities.
