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Developer withdraws Enclave at Chisholm Trail applications; residents press council on infrastructure and development agreements
Summary
The applicant withdrew the Enclave at Chisholm Trail development agreement, annexation, zoning and plats; the council nonetheless opened the public hearing for neighbors to comment and staff described water, electric and school capacity.
The applicant for the Enclave at Chisholm Trail withdrew the development agreement, voluntary annexation, zoning amendment and preliminary plat before the Weatherford City Council’s Feb. 24 meeting, and the council took no action on those items. Applicant John (representing M&A DevCo) said the team has been working on the project since 2024 and will continue to refine plans after listening to neighbors.
Council opened the public hearing to allow neighbors to be heard even though no action would be taken. Jeff Oakes of Whippoorwill Trail described peak traffic that, he said, already reaches from Fort Worth Highway to North Denton and warned that new subdivisions would worsen congestion. Lynn Baber and other residents pressed council to disclose the dollar value and public benefit of any developer incentives, asking how development agreements differ from ordinary code compliance and why agreements that travel with the land are used.
In response to resident concerns about utilities and schools, city staff described capacity: Rick Schafer said the city has sufficient water supplies and distribution capacity "for now and several decades into the future" through water rights, permits and contracts. Chad Marvin, assistant city manager, said the local electric distribution is adequately sized for growth with redundancy to restore service after outages. The mayor pro tem noted the school superintendent told him that district enrollment grew about 50 students per year from 2000–2020 but has flattened in the last six years, leaving current capacity to accept more students.
Council closed the public hearing and took no action on the Enclave items because the applicant had withdrawn them; the council agreed to discuss the public-development-agreement process in the upcoming council retreat.
