Brookshire council approves ETJ development agreement with IDV, consents to MUD creation

The City of Brookshire on Tuesday voted to enter into an extraterritorial-jurisdiction development agreement with IDV Development Services LLC and approved a resolution consenting to the creation of a municipal utility district that would serve the proposed Brown Tract development at the southwest corner of Interstate 10 and FM 1489.

The agreement authorizes the developer to pursue creation of a municipal utility district (MUD) and to begin the administrative process with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and it establishes terms for sales-tax sharing, infrastructure reimbursement and potential future annexation by the City of Brookshire. Councilmembers voted by voice to approve the development agreement and later adopted Resolution No. 1501 consenting to the MUD; both measures passed on unanimous voice votes.

The Brown Tract proposal, presented to the council by IDV representatives and counsel, calls for a mixed-use development that would be partly inside the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). The developers said the tract includes a small portion — roughly 37.5 acres — currently outside Brookshire’s ETJ that they expect to acquire and petition to add. The development would be phased, the…