Aubrey and Krugerville would trade pieces of the unincorporated land each city controls, redraw parts of the line between them and renew a deal that lets Krugerville residents use the Aubrey library, under three items on the Aubrey City Council's agenda for Thursday, Oct. 22.
A land trade outside city limits
The biggest of the three is an exchange of extraterritorial jurisdiction, or ETJ, the unincorporated area just outside a city's limits. Aubrey would hand Krugerville about 116.39 acres near New Hope Road and Arvin Hill Road. Krugerville would give Aubrey about 35.93 acres south of the Oak Hollow Estates subdivision, between New Hope Road and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.
On paper, that leaves Krugerville with about 80 more acres of ETJ than it gives up.
Senior Planner Muzaib Riaz's staff report says the swap is meant to make way for a future subdivision that is planned for annexation into Aubrey's city limits. The report says the trade does not annex anything by itself; bringing land into the city would take a separate council action. The report does not name the subdivision or its developer.
Straightening a shared line
A companion ordinance would amend the written agreement that sets the common boundary between the two cities, recorded in Denton County's public records in 2016 and 2021. Since then, according to the staff report, new subdivisions and land sales along New Hope Road, Arvin Hill Road and McNatt Road have left several tracts split by the agreed line or bounded by it in awkward ways.
That creates uncertainty over which city reviews plats there and which city could later annex the land.
