Agenda Information Sheet
DEPARTMENT: Engineering Services
CM/ ACM: Jon Fortune
Date: September 13, 2016
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance approving a Development Agreement between the City of Denton and Justland Development LLC, concerning the use of City property for temporary stormwater facilities and construction access for the proposed development of Meadow Oaks Subdivision, Phase 4, until the permanent Ruddell Street Stormwater Facilities are installed; granting temporary drainage and construction access easements in exchange for the developer providing to the City a conveyance of land in fee; providing for the developer to pay any additional costs of design and construction of a permanent stormwater piping system required to accommodate the development stormwater discharge; requiring a performance bond or letters of credit; authorizing the City Manager to execute the agreement and easements; and providing for an effective date.
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BACKGROUND
The developer of Meadow Oaks Subdivision, Phase 4 (a new subdivision lying uphill and east of the City's Service Center property, north of Paco Trail and west of Autumn Oak Drive) has proposed to City staff a potential joint stormwater project with the City's Ruddell Street Extension project. The Ruddell Street Extension Project will require fairly extensive stormwater facilities.
Basically, the developer proposes to connect his stormwater system to the City's Ruddell Street extension stormwater system and have the City accommodate his development's stormwater runoff in exchange for:
* A heavily treed strip of land (0.6 acres), which could serve as a vegetative screen of the City's Service Center uses from adjacent residential development (as compensation of temporary drainage use of City property and a contribution to City improvements to the main drainage channel serving the area)
* Forfeiting any rights to future abandonment of the currently closed Lattimore St. right-of-way along the s...
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