Pearland creates Smith Ranch Road public-improvement district to fund $6.1 million sewer improvements; Rockefeller Group to contribute $1.5M

Pearland’s City Council on Aug. 11 approved creating a Smith Ranch Road public improvement district to finance sewer infrastructure needed for a proposed Rockefeller Group mixed‑use development, voting 5‑1 to form the district while reserving final assessment amounts for later hearings.

Council members approved the resolution to create the district after a staff presentation that described an approximately $6,100,000 engineering estimate to add gravity sewer lines on Hughes Ranch Road and Smith Ranch Road No. 2, a new lift station and a force main to route flows to the city’s Reflection Bay treatment plant. City staff and the developer told council the Rockefeller Group will contribute $1,500,000 toward the improvements and that the Pearland Economic Development Corporation (PEDC) will advance roughly $4,600,000 under a reimbursement agreement; assessments to individual parcels will be set later and paid under options that include a single prepayment, annual installments up to 20 years, or payment at the time of sale or development.

The council vote created the PID but did not levy assessments. Staff and…