Round Rock City Council will consider providing out-of-city water service to a property in its extraterritorial jurisdiction at a meeting April 10. The site, planned for a new church, is within Round Rock's Certificate of Convenience and Necessity, the geographical area in which the city can provide utility services.

The details

Round Rock provides water to the nearby Williamson County Park, and the property owner would extend the water line across the road for its use. The project will also require a 1.5 inch meter, equal to five living unit equivalents, a representation of the typical water demand produced by a residence or development.

The property would pay the water impact fee based on this LUE, which amounts to about $24,000.

Joy Alappatt owns the property at 3600 CR 175 in Williamson County. The site is planned to host the St. Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.

"We've had several of these [out-of-city service agreements]; we're very careful with them," Director of Public Works Michael Thane said at an April 8 agenda packet briefing. "When they're in our ETJ, in our service area, we try to meet their demands there."

What else?

Because the property is not contiguous with city limits, the owner is not required to voluntarily annex into Round Rock.