Long Ranch, the roughly 720-home subdivision proposed on 180 agriculturally zoned acres in Melissa's extraterritorial jurisdiction, reaches the City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 27, when members hold public hearings on bringing the land into the city and zoning it for houses.
The council's regular agenda, posted Oct. 20, lists three hearings for the area around County Road 413:
- annexing 180.720 acres at the landowner's request;
- annexing a separate 1.680-acre piece near Wildrose Drive and County Road 413, also on the owner's application;
- rezoning the 180.720 acres at the southeast corner of County Roads 413 and 471 from agricultural use to a planned development based on the city's SF-3 single-family district.
What the zoning would allow
The planned development rules presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission for its Oct. 8 meeting cap Long Ranch at 750 lots. The zoning exhibit sketches about 720: roughly 193 lots 40 feet wide, 291 at 45 feet and 236 at 50 feet, each 120 feet deep.
The rules would allow no more than 215 of the narrowest lots and require at least 250 of the widest.
The developer would provide at least 27 acres of park and open space that a homeowners association would keep up, instead of meeting the city's usual parkland dedication rules. The staff report to the commission recommended approval and noted that annexation, public infrastructure and other obligations would be handled in a separate development agreement with the council.
The posted council agenda does not say how the commission voted.
