DEPARTMENT: Transportation & Capital Improvements
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie, P.E.
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Council District 7
SUBJECT:
Release of two City-owned drainage easements
SUMMARY:
An ordinance authorizing the release of two City-owned drainage easements being 0.126 of an acre and 0.128 of an acre located in New City Block 18309 along Tezel Road located in Council District 7.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
BGE, Inc., on behalf of CalAtlantic Homes of Texas, Inc., has requested the release of two City-owned drainage easements being 0.126 of an acre and 0.128 of an acre located in New City Block 18309 along Tezel Road for the purposes of building a new 37 single family home subdivision, North Oak Meadows. The subdivision will be located East of Tezel Road and South of Old Tezel Road.
The two City-owned drainage easements were originally identified to accept storm water discharge from two culverts under Tezel Road. The storm water would discharge onto vacant land and travel east towards a natural drainage channel. As part of the subdivision development on the vacant land, the proposed plat shows the storm water conveyed from Tezel Road through an underground drainage system bisecting the property within new drainage easements and public street right-of-way and through a concrete drainage channel in a new drainage easement north of the proposed subdivision. The proposed development will include an onsite detention pond, which will slowly release the storm water into the nearby natural channel, so that the rate of post-development runoff is at or below pre-development conditions.
BGE has been coordinating with the City's Development Services Department (DSD) and TCI Storm Water Engineers and both have approved the release and relocation of the drainage easements, per the preliminary plat, Plat No. 170237. Once approved, the plat will officially relocate the drainage easements. The release was presented before Planning Commission on...
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