The council unanimously approved the addition of 19.99 acres into the existing Lone Oak Farm MUD, located along the south side of FM 758 near the intersection of Hwy. 123 in Guadalupe County. It also borders the ETJ of Seguin. That MUD was approved in 2019 by City Council for a planned 320-acre, 1,469-home subdivision, dubbed the Navarro subdivision, and will include two commercial lots. Three residential lots are under construction, according to city documents.
“The city is recommending that this MUD be approved with conditions,” said Jean Drew, assistant director of planning and development for the city.
Those conditions include building, inspection and permitting standards that align with the city’s requirements, Drew said. Any further expansion east into the city of Seguin’s ETJ would be addressed through an interlocal agreement.
The council also unanimously approved the creation of the Comal County MUD No. 4 for a nearly 350-acre development that will be located on the north side of FM 1863 across from Krueger Canyon and Word Ranch roads.
“The applicant would like to build 226 single-family homes on large—minimum 1-acre—lots,” said Christopher Looney, director of planning and development. “The site is entirely over the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, and about 41 acres of it lies within the 100-year flood plain for Dry Comal Creek."
A water well system and individual septic systems for each lot are part of the proposal, he said.
Looney said part of the city’s recommended conditions is that the lots would be a minimum of 1 acre, and because the development will utilize septic systems for each residence, Texas Department of Environmental Quality guidelines require 1 acre at a minimum.
“I'm curious if any of these streets or any of these parkways are going to require a bridge of any kind to be able to maintain traffic in and out so that people aren't cut off?” Mayor Rusty Brockman said.
“Our intent is to leave it as natural as possible other than one crossing for a local street to get across to the west side from that 200-foot parkway to serve approximately 100 acres on the west side of the flood plain, so there'll be one street crossing to get over there,” said Jeffrey McKinney, an engineer on the project representing the developer.
He said the developer would not use water from the Edwards Aquifer.
“The water is not Edwards water. We are going through the Edwards into the Trinity to use Trinity water. And that's all been permitted. The volume of that well appears to be good,” he said.
