The Stanley Lake Municipal Utility District requested approval from the Conroe City Council to extend its boundaries by 4.9 acres of land at the Sept. 27 regular meeting.
In a vote that failed 3-2—with council members Jody Czajkoski and Ray McDonald voting in favor of the expansion—the extraterritorial jurisdiction in the far western region along the 105 corridor will keep its original boundaries.
The nearly 5 acres requested in the MUD expansion is currently empty, but has immediate plans for a 12-lot subdivision with homes in the $500,000 range.
"This was a portion of a property that the developer entered into a development agreement to provide utility services to the neighborhood and Stanley Lake is currently serving this neighborhood," said Marc Winberry, Conroe city attorney, at the workshop meeting Sept. 26. "Through some sort of omission they annexed a portion of our property without our consent, but for some reason left this out at some point along the way."
Council members asked how it would benefit the city to release the property to Stanley Lakes.
"The primary benefit I see would be bringing it under the umbrella of Stanley Lake," Winberry said at the workshop. "What we have talked about is potential amendments to the [community area] that might lead to possible annexation under mutually agreeable terms. I don't want to mislead anybody—we don't have an agreement today, it would require further discussion of a methodology to bring these properties under that agreement to develop a workaround of the new annexation law. It doesn't do anything that would negatively prevent our ability to annex around it in a sense of continuity."
In other news Thursday, the Council:
- Approved a change order reducing the cost of the wastewater treatment plant post-Hurricane Harvey renovation by $2 million.
- Approved building setback widths for a duplex development in Grand Central Park.
- Approved the consent agenda 4-1 with councilmember Jody Czajkoski voting against it. After the meeting, he said he did not agree with the bid award of $490,500 to John Kings Group for the CDBG Housing Reconstruction Project.
Read the full agenda
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