Fort Worth and Aledo have accused Willow Park of doubling down on its alleged unlawful annexation of territory by claiming disputed land in its latest city limits map.
In February, Fort Worth and Aledo sued Willow Park in the 43rd District Court in Parker County, accusing the neighboring city of breaking the law and violating sovereign boundaries when it annexed 321 acres near Interstate 20 and FM 1187, and then annexed portions of the Bankhead Highway right-of-way just to the south.
The plaintiffs say the 321-acre annexation was illegal because the land wasn’t contiguous to Willow Park’s boundaries, and the subsequent Bankhead Highway annexation was unlawful because that land falls within Fort Worth’s and Aledo’s extraterritorial jurisdictions, or ETJs…