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Council approves memorandum with Ivory Homes after removing water concession from negotiating tools
Summary
After work‑session discussion, the council approved a memorandum of agreement with Ivory Homes concerning road exchanges and a potential school site, amending language to say the city 'may consider' certain benefits and removing water reductions as an explicit negotiating tool.
Council considered a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Ivory Homes that would memorialize in‑principle items for future negotiation related to a bypass road and a potential school‑site trade. Council members objected to including 'water reduction' as a tool the city 'will' provide, arguing water commitments should not be pre‑authorized in the MOA. By amendment the council changed the text to read the city "may consider providing benefits to the developer" and deleted the explicit water concession (section e.i). The amended resolution passed by unanimous vote.
City and Ivory representatives emphasized the MOA is a template for negotiation, not a binding final development agreement; Ivory stated it must obtain any necessary consent from Sitla for optioned parcels in its lease structure prior to formal transfers.
