Star council approves Terramor PUD, annexation and preliminary plat with conditions including park and school provisions

The Star City Council on March 18 approved annexation, zoning, a planned unit development (PUD), a development agreement and a preliminary plat for the Terramor subdivision, a proposed multi‑phase development on roughly 296.42 acres between Kingsbury Road and Blessinger Road north of State Highway 44.

Engineering consultant Becky McKay, representing Challenger Development, told the council the project has been in design for three years and was coordinated with the West Star transportation plan, Star Sewer and Water District, the Middleton School District and Ada/Canyon highway authorities. She described a layered land‑use concept that places highway‑oriented commercial along Highway 44, transitions to neighborhood commercial and multifamily, and then to lower‑density single‑family to the north. McKay said the PUD would include approximately 821 dwelling units overall (a PUD pod density of about 3.06 units per acre), six commercial/mixed‑use lots, an approximately 11.47‑acre elementary school site to be donated to…