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Developer seeks city water hookups to build road to Joplin Street; council to review in two weeks
Summary
A developer told the Carl Junction Board of Aldermen that allowing limited city water service to out‑of‑town lots would enable a new road to Joplin Street and immediate neighborhood development; council agreed to consider the request and requested more maps and details before voting.
Judd McPherson, speaking for developer Schubert Mitchell, asked the Carl Junction Board of Aldermen on Jan. 6 to allow a limited hookup to city water for a proposed neighborhood that would not require sewer service and would provide a new access route to Joplin Street.
McPherson said the property cannot be served by the public water district and that city water is “absolutely, positively necessary” for the planned subdivision and the road connection. He said the company would begin engineering work if the city commits to allow the out‑of‑town water users to connect.
The proposal emerged as a path to address longstanding traffic concerns in nearby Briar Brook and Foxboro neighborhoods after earlier plans tied to EPA remediation at a separate Silver Oaks site stalled. McPherson told the board that EPA cleanup funding for Silver Oaks has lapsed and that the developer is offering an alternate plan to cut a road to Joplin Street that “gets access” without waiting for the EPA work to finish.
Council members pressed McPherson on how water service would be provided, whether annexation would be required and what other city services out‑of‑town users might receive. McPherson said the plan would not provide city sewer, police or fire services as part of the hookup; private roads within the neighborhood would be maintained by a homeowners association while the Joplin Street connector would be built and maintained as a county road if approved.
Engineering and cost figures discussed at the meeting included a developer estimate of “just under $1,000,000” for the road work and a previous lift‑station estimate in the range of $750,000–$1,000,000 for an alternative sewer solution. McPherson said typical development steps would include county plat approval, construction drawings and bidding; he estimated a realistic construction timeline of about a year, although larger projects can take 15–18 months.
Council members emphasized they needed more detail. They asked the developer to provide a zoomable graphic showing the surrounding platting and adjacent city limits and recommended two weeks for staff review and to return with additional data. The board took no formal vote on the request at the Jan. 6 meeting.
The item will return to the board at the next meeting for further consideration; developers said they have a county meeting scheduled the following Thursday to begin discussing plat approvals.
