TITLE
Consider a memorandum/resolution for a City/Owner Agreement to oversize public drainage infrastructure within the Cosper Ridge Estates, Phase Five Subdivision.
SUMMARY
AGENDA ITEM
City/Owner Agreement to oversize public drainage infrastructure within the Cosper Ridge Estates, Phase Five Subdivision
ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT
Public Works/Engineering
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
The developer of the Cosper Ridge Estates, Phase Five Subdivision, has requested that the City of Killeen materially participate to increase the size of certain public infrastructure. The development abuts the previously completed phases of the Cosper Ridge Estates Subdivision to the north and Chaparral Road to the south. Undeveloped property abuts Phase Five of the subdivision to the east and west.
DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION
Process Summary
Section 26-85 of the Killeen Code of Ordinances defines the process wherein the City may enter into an agreement with a developer to construct public improvements, not including a building, related to land development. Under such an agreement, the developer constructs the improvements and the City participates in project costs within prescribed limits.
To begin the process, the developer submits a letter of intent seeking City cost participation - in this specific case, for the material over-sizing of public drainage infrastructure. The request for City cost participation must be associated with a legal subdivision of land. Through review of appropriate documentation, City staff and the developer come to a mutual understanding of project scope and over-sizing (i.e., not infrastructure required to support the proposed development itself, but additional material and labor required to meet a defined public need or provide a regional benefit).
The developer constructs the public improvement project under the terms and conditions of an agreement-in-for...
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