Pearland City Council at its regular meeting on June 13 unanimously passed a resolution that green lights the annexation of roughly 110 acres at the intersection of Hwy. 35 and Bailey Road into the Harris-Brazoria Counties Municipal Utility District No. 509.
“This will add the 110-acre residential planned development at Hwy. 35 and Bailey Road that was recently approved,” Deputy City Manager Trent Epperson said. “There’s not a city rebate for this annexed area as a part of the MUD.”
The planned development needed a zone change, which was granted at the March 28 regular meeting by Pearland City Council in a 4-3 vote. The property was rezoned from heavy industrial to planned development district on the property bounded by Hwy. 35, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, and both north and south of Bailey Road.
The project, which is expected to add 450 residences to the area, is moving forward, and groundbreaking is anticipated by the middle of 2023, LJA Engineering Project Manager Katy Harris told Community Impact Newspaper in an email in April.
According to agenda documents, the land needs to be annexed into the Harris-Brazoria Counties Municipal Utility District No. 509 because there is not adequate waterworks, sanitary sewer system or a drainage system in place for the population expected for the residential homes in the planned development.
The district will be tasked with constructing and maintaining those systems needed for the health and well-being of residents living in the planned development, according to agenda documents. The cost of extending those services is roughly $13.32 million, agenda documents say.
Harris-Brazoria Counties Municipal Utility District No. 509 was first created in 2007 to support development of Riverstone Ranch near Hughes Road and has expanded to several developments since, Epperson said.
