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Residents tell council to reject proposed sewer alignment and to remove Corliss Trail from CIP
Summary
Two residents told the council they oppose separate infrastructure projects: Britney Smith said a proposed sanitary sewer alignment for the Grotta Limestone development would bisect and damage her property and urged council to pursue alternate routes and resist eminent domain; Mike Holdwell presented a petition of about 40 residents opposing the Corliss Trail and asked that the trail be removed from the capital plan.
During the meeting's call to the public, two residents urged the De Soto City Council to reconsider infrastructure plans that they said would harm long-term residents.
Britney Smith (speaker 7) said she lives on Kill Creek Road and that a developer, identified in her remarks as representing Grotta Limestone, proposed a sanitary sewer easement that would bisect her property and remove mature trees and cross Miller Creek. She said the proposed alignment, she believes, benefits the developer and would impose maintenance and utility-connection costs on landowners who could not economically use the new sewer location.
"The proposed plan seems to be only beneficial for Grata, and any benefit to other community members is accidental at best," Britney Smith said, and she asked the council to review alternative routes (using existing city easements, the east edge of their property, or land purchased for Arbor Ridge), and to "dismiss this threat of imminent domain or condemnation."
Smith said the easement would restrict construction within the corridor, increase maintenance responsibilities for homeowners and potentially require trenching hundreds of feet to reach the system.
Mike Holdwell (speaker 12) presented a petition of roughly 40 signatures from Corliss-area residents opposing a proposed Corliss Trail. Holdwell said residents reported limited notification and expressed concerns about cost (he cited a $6 million estimate), loss of green space, easement complications along Corliss frontage, and potential changes to neighborhood character. He asked the council to remove the trail from the capital improvement plan (CIP) or, if the line item remains, to meet with residents and explain the project's strategic value.
Neither item was scheduled for immediate action that night; council members acknowledged the comments and directed staff to follow up where appropriate.
