It’s become a familiar scene at Canyon meetings: Developers Davy and Jeff Hamilton, of Canyon Capital Group, having healthy disagreements about options of housing growth with the Canyon City Commission and director of development.
The debate has to do with impact fees the City of Canyon is considering on new developments, with compelling arguments on both sides for what’s best for the city.
As City Manager Joe Price has said, “We have some pretty lively discussions, but we always managed to work things out.”
The initial battle, over ETJ – What is it?
The Extra Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) is a designed buffer area located just outside of the city limits, afforded by the Texas Local Government Code as a method of defining potential growth and future service (water and sewer) boundaries…