Kendall County Commissioners Andra Wisian and Chad Carpenter will head to the bargaining table with two city of Boerne representatives to work toward finalization of the County-City Interlocal agreement regulating the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.
The city controls the ETJ under previous agreements, but Kendall County Judge Shane Stolarczyk said the current court “has expressed its desire to retake control over the ETJ.”
Wisian and Carpenter will join Boerne City Couincilmen Joseph Macaluso and Quinten Scott in opening dialogue on controlling development within the city’s ETJ.
Earlier this year, the county commission passed a resolution to the city spelling out its requests and conditions for re-establishing control of growth factors within the 1-mile ETJ boundary around the city. The city, Stolarczyk said, declined to sign, creating a need for the two parties to negotiate if there is to be any further development on ETJ restrictions.
Stolarczyk said the city asked that a committee be formed “to try to hash out some form of agreement that works for both sides.” Wisian said she considers it her duty “to sit down, face to face, ask questions, seek to understand, clarify information, get some suggestions and ideas and bring that back.”
Commissioner Richard Chapman, the only commissioner living in the ETJ, withdrew a previous request to be one of the two county representatives on the committee.
“Commissioner Wisian made a good point,” Chapman said. “I would not appreciate one of these two taking over one of my projects I’ve been working on for a year. I agree, so that’s why I withdrew my name.”
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