AGENDA INFORMATION SHEET
DEPARTMENT: Department of Development Services
CM: Todd Hileman
DATE: May 23, 2017
SUBJECT
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Consider adoption of an ordinance of the City of Denton, Texas, setting a date, time, and place for two public hearings on the proposed annexation of certain properties generally located north of McKinney Street and west of Trinity Road by the City of Denton, Texas, authorizing and directing the City Secretary to publish notice of such public hearings.
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BACKGROUND
The applicant, Brent Murphree, on behalf of the property owner, Michael Holigan, has submitted an annexation application to voluntarily annex approximately 118.041 acres of land. Located within DH-12 of the 2010 3-Year Annexation Plan, the subject property was initially scheduled for annexation in 2013. However, on December 18, 2012, the City Council approved non-annexation agreements (NAAs) for the subject properties. The NAAs are scheduled to expire on August 1, 2020 and the terms of the NAAs require that the properties remain in agricultural land or be subject to immediate voluntary annexation.
In December 2016, a prospective purchaser of the subject properties held a Pre-Development Meeting (PDM) with the City's Development Review Committee to discuss development of the site as a manufactured housing development. The applicant was informed at the PDM, that the proposed development would violate the terms of the NAAs and trigger immediate voluntary annexation. In March 2017, the applicant assumed ownership of the subject properties and has submitted two applications - one for annexation and one for a zoning district designation of Neighborhood Residential (NR-6). Manufactured housing is only permitted with the approval of a Specific Use Permit (SUP) and the applicant will be pursing this if the zoning designation is approved.
The purpose of this ordinance is to establish public hearing dates for the annexation. The tentative schedule for this annexation is as fol...
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