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City staff to add development agreement with Daniel Realty to meeting agenda; agreement limits residential lots and requires donated parcel for water testing
Summary
City staff previewed a draft development agreement with Daniel Realty that would limit residential lots to 310 on a proposed golf‑course/residential site, require developer‑funded utility extensions and donate an acre possible water well/tower site.
City staff briefed the council on a proposed development agreement with Daniel Realty Company for a large golf course and residential project south of town and announced plans to add the item to the council meeting agenda as a development agreement (item 34).
Chris, a staff presenter, explained the developer seeks utility availability letters for water and sewer to serve the proposed site as they assemble parcels. The developer previously held an availability letter for 375 lots on nearby parcels; the proposed agreement would limit densification for the combined site to 310 residential lots while allowing the golf/club and related uses. As a term of the agreement the developer has offered to donate an acre the city has identified for possible test well and a future water tower site and to construct required water and sewer infrastructure extensions needed to serve the development.
Chris told council the development agreement links the city’s issuance of an availability letter to several conditions including donation of the acre parcel and developer‑funded infrastructure improvements. Council members noted that the proposed plan represents a substantial net reduction in potential residential lots compared with the prior availability and that the developer has agreed to address irrigation and golf‑course water needs without relying on city drinking water for irrigation. “We’re not putting our community at risk when we get those type of written down, intimate details in a contract,” Council member Marcus said, praising the written commitments.
Council agreed to add the development agreement to the council meeting agenda (to be considered as item 34) so the council can take formal action. Staff said the developer must still obtain county subdivision approvals and that a test well and subsequent infrastructure work remain contingencies; staff said they will return with technical results and a final contract for council decision.
