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Council gives preliminary support to Hand Track plan, asks staff to draft development-agreement details
Summary
Rosenberg council signaled majority support for amending the Brookwater development agreement to add roughly 396 acres proposed as the Hand Track subdivision, with conditions on lot sizes, street widths and a city-limit reconfiguration; council directed staff and the developer to refine the agreement for a future formal action.
Rosenberg Mayor William Benton and a majority of city council members on Tuesday signaled support for folding a proposed single‑family development, called Hand Track, into the existing Brookwater development agreement — subject to further negotiations and technical edits.
The developer, represented by attorney Richard Moller and a Beazer Homes team, asked the council to let the new land be developed under Brookwater’s standards with two specific modifications: require a portion of 70‑foot lots, and accept a compromise street width of 32 feet instead of the city’s current 36‑foot standard. The application covers roughly 396.8 acres split between the city limits and the city’s extraterritorial…
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