Mister Connor, a city staff member, opened a public hearing on ordinance 7-28-2025, a pre-zoning application and planned unit development (PUD) tied to an annexation request for a 1,600-acre property north of County Road 40 and east of Highway 225. He said the filing includes a legal description, a master plan and a PUD narrative that adds design guidelines more restrictive than standard zoning.

Kathy Barnett, who identified herself as “registered agent for the project on behalf of the Oni family,” summarized the site history and amenities. She said the Oni family purchased the property in 2005, built the golf course and the first 79 platted lots, and that the western half of the PUD centers on the golf course with proposed clubhouse, pro shop, restaurant and recreational amenities. Barnett described an eastern portion of roughly 400 acres planned as an animal sanctuary with wellness programming and community spaces. She provided developer counts for parts of the project (developer-provided figures included 246 single-family homes and 125 townhomes on the western side and additional units overall) and said the anticipated buildout would occur over 10–15 years.

Barnett and Connor confirmed the planning commission held a public hearing and forwarded a positive, unanimous recommendation for the PUD designation. Council members pressed developers on public-safety capacity (fire and police support), whether townhomes would be sold or operated as apartments (developer: “not intended to be an apartment complex” and the PUD narrative strictly prohibits apartments), and whether volume builders would be used (developer: owners have talked with custom builders and do not intend mass-volume builders). The developers said rental percentages were not stipulated in the narrative but that owners would consider any stipulations the city requested.

The council recessed the public hearing to the next regular meeting scheduled for Dec. 15, 2025, and directed staff to post the PUD narrative and exhibits on the city website and at posting locations to allow further public review before reconvening the hearing.