BY JACQUELYN BURRER & ANNA MANESS
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Development company Columnar Investments is seeking PID approval from the city for Heirloom Georgetown, a roughly 620-acre community. While the property is currently in the ETJ, it would be annexed into city limits to become a PID, according to previous Community Impact reporting. One reason Columnar is making an investment in Georgetown is due to the city’s wherewithal to get water and build treatment plants, said Logan Kimble, vice president of Texas land operations at Columnar Investments. “Water is getting more scarce,” Kimble said. “It’s hard in Central Texas to get water if you aren’t getting it from a municipality.” Potential developments drive the city’s discus- sion on how big future treatment plants should be, Georgetown Communications Manager Keith Hutchinson said. Additionally, if properties request to come back into city limits, officials want the ability to offer them services, Woolery said. “The challenge with that is the wastewater
On April 8, City Council expressed concerns with wastewater plans for an Atkinson Ranch MUD proposal in north Georgetown. Although the developer, PulteGroup, has since removed their application with the city, Woolery said a future development at the 362-acre site is possible. “That doesn’t mean that a different developer won’t walk back in six months from now to try and develop that property,” Woolery said. Changes to state law bring uncertainty and complications to the process, Woolery said. To Schroeder, the pressure to accelerate housing development in Central Texas has caused the state and developers to remove guardrails in the process. “I’m just convinced that we are setting off a bunch of long-term problems to solve this immediate ‘crisis’ without thinking about the long-term impacts of the decisions we’re making,” Schroeder said.
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treatment plants now are so expensive,” Woolery said. “If we build it too big, now all of our existing ratepayers here in the city are paying for something that’s not being used.” If city officials don’t approve a district’s proposal, Kimble said that’s when developers start consider- ing deannexation. “Unfortunately, the only hammer that we have in those negotiations … is to deannex from the ETJ,” Kimble said. “We don’t have a negotiation tool, because time kills all deals.”
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