Title
Approving an amendment to the acquisition and improvement agreement with Lakeside Meadows LLC. associated with the Secondary Colorado River Raw Water Line and Weiss Pecan Water Line projects, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same.
Summary
City staff have been working with the developer for the Lakeside Meadows development on 3 easements for both the Secondary Colorado River Raw Water Line and the Weiss Pecan Water Line projects in order to continue the process to keep moving both projects forward. After City staff were able to get all of the developer’s documents compiled, staff noted errors in some of the documentation that delayed the appraisal of the property as the errors took time to correct. This delay set back the appraisal of the property to be acquired. As the original agreement had a deadline of January 1, 2025 to have the property acquired, this setback delayed finalizing the acquisition by about 45 days. This amendment would extend the deadline of the property acquisition to March 2025 to account for those delays.
The projects that this acquisition impacts are the Secondary Colorado River Raw Water Line project and the Weiss Pecan Water Line Project. For the Secondary Colorado River Raw Water Line project, the easements needed will eventually be conveyed to the City as public parkland, but the timing of this conveyance is not advantageous to the City in order to meet our deadline to deliver additional raw water to Lake Pflugerville before summer 2026. For the Weiss Pecan Water Line project, the City is currently working to finalize this acquisition with Lakeside Meadows, but it requires a portion of the Colorado Sand Roadway near Weiss Lane to be acquired so that the City can use a portion of the future Right of Way for a Temporary Construction Easement. With the existing Temporary Construction Easements for the Weiss Pecan Water Line project soon expiring, the City cannot delay acquiring this final easement to bid the ...
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