Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs) & Other Water Districts
Establishing Essential Infrastructure Supporting Growing Texas Communities
By leveraging private capital, MUDs and other water districts construct critical infrastructure and finance long-term community assets by issuing tax-exempt bonds. These bonds fund new facilities, upgrade and maintain existing systems, and allow developers to recover eligible development costs.
ABHR provides comprehensive legal counsel to these special districts, including:
District creation through the Texas Legislature and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Managing relationships among overlapping government entities
Organizing districts and conducting confirmation and bond elections
Structuring public infrastructure bond financings
Ensuring ongoing regulatory and statutory compliance
Providing ongoing general counsel for district operations
“We like to say that you move into a MUD by voting with your feet.”
— Angela Lutz, Partner
“Continuing the Texas Miracle requires an ongoing investment in infrastructure. More jobs equal more people equal more houses equal greater demand for infrastructure. The infrastructure that feeds the Texas Miracle is developed by Municipal Utility Districts and other special districts. Without MUDs, the accessibility and affordability of housing would be in crisis.”
— Camm ‘Trey’ C. Lary III, Partner
Project Spotlight
Preston Harbor
Preston Harbor, a $6 billion development in Denison, Texas, is designed to expand residential capacity and enhance regional tourism along Lake Texoma.
Scale
3,114 acres with 9.5 miles of shoreline
Residential Development
7,500 projected homes
Population
20,000 projected residents at build-out
The establishment of a TIRZ and a master district system will enable regional infrastructure to be financed through a combination of tax increment revenues and contract taxes levied by participant districts.
Cinco Ranch
Grange
Fort Bend County LID 2
Cross Creek Ranch
Savannah
Providence
Related Project Experience
The firm represents over 400 MUDs and other water districts within Texas’ leading master planned communities and regional development projects.
Cinco MUD 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14
Colton MUDs 1, 2
Comal County Water Improvement Districts (Veramendi)
Fort Bend County LID 2
Fort Bend County MUDs 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 (Telfair)
Freeport MUD 1
Harris County MUD 165
Harris County MUD 477, 478 (Jubilee)
Harris-Waller County MUD 4, Harris County MUDs 5, 569, Waller County MUD 35, 37 (Sunterra)
Hays County MUD 7 (Waterstone)
Lake McQueeney Water Control and Improvement District
Lake Placid Water Control and Improvement District
Lazy Nine MUDs 1A, 1B (Sweetwater)
Sienna MUDs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13
Tarrant County Fresh Water Supply District No. 2
Harris County MUDs 500, 501, 592, 503 (Towne Lake)