By Anita Miller

The Kyle City Council is poised to consider at its meeting Tuesday declaring the population of the city to be 50,000 or more and expanding the extraterritorial jurisdiction to 3.5 miles beyond the city limits.

According to the Texas Local Government Code, a city’s ETJ is determined by its population — cities with fewer than 5,000 residents have an ETJ of one-half mile. That expands to one mile for cities with between 5,000 and 24,999 residents, and to two miles when the...