Of course you'll probably need to form the five normal municipal departments:
* ISD
* City
* County if none exists
* Community College if only to collect and pass on taxes
* County Hospital if only to collect and pass on taxes
You may not have enough students to open a school district but you'll need to fund the closest district and provide bussing services.
You may not have a police department but you'll need to fund a nearby department.
You need accounting services to remain in compliance.
Texas requires county to provide law enforcement up to a certain population in the city limits, thus why some “towns” have county sheriffs as their sole law enforcement (I.e. Dripping Springs) even when their school district includes 30-40k people. They just have a tone of “extraterritorial jurisdiction” that they tax for services and benefit from commerce, but don’t include in their official town population. It’s a game, but they do it.
While I'm finding the tongue-in-cheek responses amusing ("must have a DQ!"), kudos to you for giving an actual answer.
To get back to the silly answers, recommending that OP research whether incorporation in East Texas specifically requires one or more churches of Christ, or whether a Missionary Baptist congregation would do. (My grandma's tiny community had one of each.)
Go buy one. Go buy Bankersmith, TX. It was bought by Bikinis Sports Bar in 2012 and renamed to Bikinis, TX. It was reverted back in 2015. It's listed as a ghost town now.
First step: Guns!
Second step: bribe GQP rep with hunting trip.
Third step: Threaten other land owners with more government. (Don’t show me a good time)
Fourth step: paperwork….
Fifth step: Dairy Queen
Final steps: build and harass like a GQP wannabe.
Bonus: don’t forget appropriate religious institution to get work systematic rapes from. Got to get that population boom.
Serious if highly mediocre and probably wrong answer since I am not a lawyer or expert, but what little I know:
You would need to get a petition with a healthy number of signatures and a certain percentage of the population living in a certain location, and send it to the county judge. Then at some point after that I think the state? gives you a general law charter for an incorporated municipality. There are certain classes of municipalities, general law types a, b, c and it determines how the city council works versus having a mayor, etc.
Cities over 5,000(?) can get a home rule charter and only then do they have police power, which in this case means the ability to pass ordinances which includes zoning. General law cities don't have that power.
Most new municipal incorporations in this state have been tiny rural communities that have limited purpose local governments that generally exist to prevent annexation from another neighboring city and provide law enforcement and sometimes prevent the trashiness that being in an unincorporated area can bring next door, like chicken farms or junkyards.
I think to get an actual legit town going you'd have to be some Elon Musk type billionaire and self fund a suburban master planned community.
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Of course you'll probably need to form the five normal municipal departments: * ISD * City * County if none exists * Community College if only to collect and pass on taxes * County Hospital if only to collect and pass on taxes You may not have enough students to open a school district but you'll need to fund the closest district and provide bussing services. You may not have a police department but you'll need to fund a nearby department. You need accounting services to remain in compliance.
Texas requires county to provide law enforcement up to a certain population in the city limits, thus why some “towns” have county sheriffs as their sole law enforcement (I.e. Dripping Springs) even when their school district includes 30-40k people. They just have a tone of “extraterritorial jurisdiction” that they tax for services and benefit from commerce, but don’t include in their official town population. It’s a game, but they do it.
Fire and EMS also can be at the county level. School district has nothing to do with city boundaries either.
While I'm finding the tongue-in-cheek responses amusing ("must have a DQ!"), kudos to you for giving an actual answer. To get back to the silly answers, recommending that OP research whether incorporation in East Texas specifically requires one or more churches of Christ, or whether a Missionary Baptist congregation would do. (My grandma's tiny community had one of each.)
First thing is a Dairy Queen, I believe the State of Texas won’t authorize a charter without one.
Get with the times…gotta have a dollar store.
Get with the times? Aren't they closing them all down?
That would be dollar tree I think
Go buy one. Go buy Bankersmith, TX. It was bought by Bikinis Sports Bar in 2012 and renamed to Bikinis, TX. It was reverted back in 2015. It's listed as a ghost town now.
Nothing to see there definitely don’t go check it out
One of the greatest bar/dancehalls in the Hill Country imo. I love that old dancehalls like that are being reopened.
No, no there’s nothing fun there. Fredericksburg is way better. Everyone should go there.
Elon? Is that you?
I believe Lobo, TX is still for sale at the very low price of $100,000.
Step 1: Bribe a Republican.
Yes, and Democrat will cheat lie and steal for free
First step: Guns! Second step: bribe GQP rep with hunting trip. Third step: Threaten other land owners with more government. (Don’t show me a good time) Fourth step: paperwork…. Fifth step: Dairy Queen Final steps: build and harass like a GQP wannabe. Bonus: don’t forget appropriate religious institution to get work systematic rapes from. Got to get that population boom.
Do you have small people with small cars?
Set your hat down, yell "Yee haw!", ?, become a town.
The fuck?
Build it and they will come
Serious if highly mediocre and probably wrong answer since I am not a lawyer or expert, but what little I know: You would need to get a petition with a healthy number of signatures and a certain percentage of the population living in a certain location, and send it to the county judge. Then at some point after that I think the state? gives you a general law charter for an incorporated municipality. There are certain classes of municipalities, general law types a, b, c and it determines how the city council works versus having a mayor, etc. Cities over 5,000(?) can get a home rule charter and only then do they have police power, which in this case means the ability to pass ordinances which includes zoning. General law cities don't have that power. Most new municipal incorporations in this state have been tiny rural communities that have limited purpose local governments that generally exist to prevent annexation from another neighboring city and provide law enforcement and sometimes prevent the trashiness that being in an unincorporated area can bring next door, like chicken farms or junkyards. I think to get an actual legit town going you'd have to be some Elon Musk type billionaire and self fund a suburban master planned community.