Staff: 7,653 approved dwelling units on file would need roughly 4,149 acre‑feet/year; public raises water, traffic and services concerns

At the Oct. 15 meeting the planning director presented an inventory of active development agreements and an estimate of associated water demand if all currently approved but unbuilt dwelling units were built.

Staff summary and method Planning staff listed active residential development agreements and their remaining approved dwelling units. Examples cited by staff: Mountain Falls South (5,160 approved single‑family units remaining under one development agreement), GPS Pleasant Valley (new agreement replacing a prior Pleasant Valley agreement), 9 of a Kind LLC (Indian Road, 448 units approved), and others. When staff totaled active approvals that still could be constructed under current agreements the number was 7,653 dwelling units.

To estimate water demand staff used a planning figure of 200 gallons per person per day (the groundwater management plan target rounded to 200 gpd) and an average household size of…