Axis Point Developers will likely break ground on the 74-lot Town Harbour Estates within the next three to six months, said David Hoover, director of planning and development.
The council voted to approve rezoning the residential and commercial area to a planned unit development, which will allow for variances to the overall project the developer would otherwise have to get city approval for one lot at a time.
The greatest point of contention was a variance that will allow the developer to create a drainage system within the development the city will own and both the city and the community’s homeowners association will maintain, Hoover said.
Axis Point plans to build a canal in the middle of the community that will drain an estimated 60-70 percent of stormwater from the Lakeside subdivision to the east. The city will maintain the part of the system outside the gated portion of the development, and the HOA will maintain the part inside the gated portion, Hoover said.
Other approved variances include:
- Allowing Axis Point to use stucco as an exterior to the houses built in Town Harbour Estates. League City ordinances do not count stucco as a masonry product, which is required on homes built in the city, Hoover said.
- Allowing for longer streets than normally allowed in subdivisions to accommodate the property’s long, skinny shape.
“They’re not wild and crazy things, but there’s enough of them where it would be cumbersome to do them all one at a time,” Hoover said.
The council denied the developer’s variance request to plant large trees in the front yards of Town Harbour Estates homes to make up for the ones the developer will need to chop down for the development. The developer will instead have to plant trees along trails in the development or a public park, Hoover said.
In other business
The League City City Council on Tuesday adopted its fiscal year 2018-19 property tax rate, which dropped slightly from its previous rate.
The rate is set at $0.5638 per $100, a drop from the previous rate of $0.565 and a 10.51 percent drop from 2010’s rate of $0.63.
