§ 7. LIMITED PURPOSE ANNEXATION.

In addition to the power to annex additional territory for all purposes, the city shall have the power, by ordinance, to fix, alter, and extend the corporate boundary limits of the city for the limited purposes of planning, zoning, health, and safety and to annex for such limited purposes additional territory lying adjacent to the city, with or without the consent of the property owners or inhabitants of such annexed territory; provided, however, that no such territory which lies farther than five miles from the corporate boundary limits enclosing the territory which is a part of the city for all purposes, as those corporate boundary limits are now or may hereafter be established shall be annexed for any limited purpose or purposes. Whenever the boundary limits annexed for such limited purposes are not coterminous with the corporate boundary limits enclosing the territory which a part of the city for all purposes, such boundary limits of the limited purpose territory shall be known as "Limited Purpose Boundary Limits." Every ordinance by which territory is to be annexed to the city for limited purposes shall state clearly the limited purpose or purposes for which it is being annexed, and shall be published one time, in a newspaper of general circulation in the city and in the form in which it is to be finally adopted, not less than 30 days prior to its final passage.

When any additional territory has been annexed for said limited purpose or purposes, it shall be a part of the city for such limited purpose or purposes only. However, in dealing with the property and inhabitants thereof, the city shall have every power which it otherwise possesses and which is reasonable and expedient for the accomplishment of the limited purpose or purposes for which such property is annexed, and the power of the city to deal with the property and inhabitants of such limited purpose territory shall include the powers enumerated in the next two succeeding sentences but shall not be limited or restricted thereto. With regard to territory annexed for the limited purpose of planning or zoning, the city shall have the power to control and regulate the use of property and the density of structures, to require compliance with reasonable zoning regulations, to control and regulate the subdivision of property and to control and regulate the construction of buildings. With regard to territory annexed for the limited purpose or purposes of health or safety, the city shall have the power to adopt all reasonable regulations pertaining to health and safety and to require compliance with such regulations. Every inhabitant of territory annexed for limited purpose or purposes, who is otherwise qualified, shall be entitled to vote in city elections on every issue where the question is the election or recall of a city council member or the amendment of this Charter, and every such inhabitant shall be deemed to be a citizen of the city in connection with any ordinance, regulation, or action which is, or is alleged to be, applicable to him or her or his or her property because of such limited purpose annexation, but will not be eligible to run for any office in the City of Austin. The city shall have no power to levy any tax for municipal purposes on either the property or the inhabitants of territory annexed for limited purpose or purposes, and no funds of the city shall be spent in such territory except where reasonable and expedient for the accomplishment of the limited purpose or purposes for which the territory is annexed; but the city may collect reasonable charges from property owners and inhabitants of such territory for services rendered by the city in the accomplishment of the limited purpose or purposes for which the territory is annexed.

Amendment note: Section 7 appears as amended at the election of May 7, 1994.

Source: Ord. No. 20180809-113 , Pt. 7, 8-20-18/election of 11-6-18.