C'Shores Council to hold hearing on ETJ ordinance extension

February 07, 2013, 9:50 pm by Alexandria Randolph

Cottonwood Shores City Council voted Thursday to schedule a public hearing on the issue of including the city’s ETJ in the building and zoning code ordinances.

The council is also considering adding an ordinance to change the minimum lot size to 100 feet by 100 feet.

The ETJ, or extra territorial jurisdiction, is the area directly outside of city limits. Currently the total square mileage of the city including its ETJ is around 2.6.

"We’re expanding our building code and ordinances to our ETJ,” said City Administrator Janet Taylor-Carusi. "This is really about making people have a bigger yard and reducing the amount of water meter demand.”