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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Bill Wiet, Chief Development Services Officer
DATE: September 19, 2014
SUBJECT:
To approve a municipal boundary agreement between the City of Aurora and the City of Naperville for the purposes of future annexations, and also provide for an agreement on near term and long term public works projects of mutual community benefit
PURPOSE:
The purpose of approving boundary agreements with neighboring municipalities allows each respective community to adequately plan for future growth, and fund necessary improvements in anticipation of meeting the needs of properties being annexed in the future. Development can then be based upon sound financial, land use and transportation planning.
BACKGROUND:
The City has had boundary agreements in place for its neighboring communities. Aurora approved a jurisdictional boundary agreement with Naperville in November of 1994. Boundary agreements have a life of 20 years, thus the agreement is set to expire in Mid-November. Both staffs from Aurora and Naperville have discussed the past agreement and have put forth together a recommended agreement and plan for the next 20 years.
DISCUSSION:
The boundary line as drawn in the 2014 agreement is primarily the same line as from the 1994 agreement, with the one exception being the area north of the tollway. In 1994 an unincorporated area generally east of Eola Road and south of Bilter Road remained in 1994 as a "self- determination area". That is, Both Aurora and Naperville could have annexed properties in this predominantly residential area (although it could be designated as Office/Research/Industrial in the future) without objection. A couple of parcels were annexed into Aurora during this time, and the revised boundary reflects a line drawn from those annexed parcels south toward the tollway as being in Aurora's future annexation territory. The City of Naperville will then have the ability to annex the parcels east of this ...
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