AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Department of Development Services
ACM: Jon Fortune
DATE: August 16, 2016
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton approving a pre-annexation development agreement between the City of Denton and Ryan Capital Partners, Ltd. for the Creekside (Ryan Ranch) Development; authorizing the Mayor to execute said Agreement; providing severability and providing an effective date.
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BACKGROUND
On June 2, 2016, the City Council granted a second extension of the existing Non-Annexation Agreement (NAA) to delay annexation of the subject property while staff and the developer collaborated on a Pre-Annexation Agreement (PAA) to allow the property to remain in the City's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) in return for the City's regulation of land uses and design standards for the site. The NAA is scheduled to expire on September 4, 2016.
The development criteria and associated details of the proposed PAA were presented to the Council at their August 9th meeting. The presentation provided a land use analysis of each tract contained within the subject property.
The proposed agreement is currently being reviewed and will be provided on the day of the meeting. Based on discussion points raised at the August 9th meeting, the applicant is proposing to revise their original Detailed Plan, which will be presented at the meeting. The proposed revisions, however, have been reflected in the development conditions for Tract 1C in this report but have not been incorporated in the PAA. If the proposed revisions are amenable, they will be included. Furthermore, if there are additional conditions or development criteria proposed by the City Council, they will also be incorporated into the agreement and reflected on the Detailed Plan.
PAA's are contracts between the governing body of a municipality and the owner of property in the ETJ and are permitted under Texas Local Government Code Section 212.172. They al...
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