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Northlake planning staff outlines five pending annexations, schedules public hearings
Summary
Planning staff updated council on five pending voluntary annexations — Hawthorne Estates, Iron Head Development, Northlake Business Park, North Lake Corner and Pinnacle Montessori — and said public hearings will be scheduled on Sept. 12 and Oct. 10 as appropriate.
Planning staff Nathan briefed the Northlake Town Council on multiple pending voluntary annexations during the Aug. 22 meeting and said consent‑agenda items would include calls for public hearings on several of them.
Nathan said Hawthorne Estates (originally planned at 31 lots on roughly 34 acres off Faught Road) has been reduced to 29 lots because of drainage and a gas‑pipeline constraint; final plat and construction plans have been approved and work is underway, and a public hearing can be called on Sept. 12 with a later zoning step.
He said Iron Head Development is a 56‑acre industrial proposal in the Catherine Branch Industrial Area with four buildings totaling just over 900,000 square feet; the developer (Alliance Industrial) is scheduled to close next month and staff proposed calling a public hearing on Sept. 12 and setting the hearing for Oct. 10 to consider annexation and then zoning.
Nathan also updated the council on Northlake Business Park (68 acres, commercial/light industrial), North Lake Corner (11.4 acres with some grandfathered commercial uses and a planned digital billboard that affects timing of a portion of annexation), and a Pinnacle Montessori School site (2 acres, a proposed 11,000‑square‑foot day care and a 6,000‑square‑foot commercial building).
For several items staff said development agreements serve as the petition and service plan for voluntary annexation; once public hearings are held, council may consider annexation and then follow with zoning changes and, for some projects, creation of a reinvestment zone or tax abatement as specified in the agreements.
