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Developers seek Brookshire approval for Brown Tract development; council presses for clearer sales-tax timing and water-district talks
Summary
Developers proposed an industrial-and-residential build on the Brown Tract in the city’s ETJ and a MUD-financed infrastructure plan with a 50/50 sales-tax split proposal.
Attorneys and developers for a proposed project called the Brown Tract described plans for large-scale light-industrial and residential development in the City of Brookshire’s extraterritorial jurisdiction at the April 17 council meeting.
Aaron Carpenter, attorney with Allen Boone Humphries Robinson representing IDV Development Services and partners including D.R. Horton and 4 Star, told the council the proposal would develop roughly 1,800,000 square feet of light industrial space and about 650 single-family homes on land southwest of I‑10 and FM 1489 in the city’s ETJ. Carpenter said the developers expect…
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