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Council approves Havenwood Phase 1 site plan and tree removals after debate over floodplain crossings
Summary
Flower Mound council approved the Havenwood Phase 1 subdivision site plan and a related tree-removal permit, allowing infrastructure crossings of mapped FEMA and town "fully developed" floodplain zones while staff and the applicant said no lots would be placed inside the floodplain; the tree permit drew one dissent on a specimen tree removal.
Assistant Director of Engineering Dale Crown and planning staff presented Havenwood Phase 1, a subdivision on the former Smith Tract that would place 87 single-family homes on about 172.73 acres as part of a larger planned-development parcel. Town staff and the applicant sought an exception to permit limited impacts to both FEMA-identified and town-defined fully developed floodplain in order to install private trails, retention ponds, grading, and roadway and utility crossings; no buildable lots would be located inside the floodplain, the applicant and staff said.
The applicant said the exception would allow more precise floodplain mapping (a future Letter of Map Revision to FEMA…
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