Title
Approving a conditional purchase agreement and associated conveyance documents between CE Development, Inc and the City of Pflugerville as necessary to acquire real property interests for the Cottonwood West Lift Station and Force Main Project, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same.
Summary
The proposed agenda item requests approval of a conditional purchase agreement and associated conveyance documents between CE Development, Inc and the City of Pflugerville as necessary to acquire real property interests for the Cottonwood West Lift Station and Force Main project and authorizing the City Manager to execute the same. This item supports the infrastructure pillar of the City’s Strategic Plan.
The purpose of the Cottonwood West Lift Station and Force Main project is to serve development within the Cottonwood sewershed along the Cameron Lane corridor to convey flows to the future Wilbarger Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility. This project is critical to serve the Meadowlark Development that is being developed on the east side of Cameron Lane south of the current Jesse Bohls Drive.
After negotiations with the property owner early in the easement acquisition process, the property owner was not open to having multiple force mains running through the property with 3 different projects planned to cross through this development. The developer was open to having a single gravity line designed for all 3 projects to terminate at to convey wastewater flow for the Cottonwood West, New Sweden, and Cele lift stations that are currently in design. This would minimize the design needed on the City's Cottonwood West Lift Station and would mitigate the risk of possibly having to acquire a force main easement through the eminent domain process as was originally communicated to the City by the representative of CE Development. City staff communicated to the developer's team that the City would be open to this delegated design to expedite the easeme...
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