(Seguin) — The Seguin City Council has officially taken action that helps to clear the way for a new residential development that will eventually bring 400 new homes to the city of Seguin.
The council on Tuesday approved two items related to the Lily Springs subdivision, a Pulte Homes community along Highway 46 that will be built just north of Cordova Road.
The first item called for the council to approve the a parkland agreement with the developer. City Parks Director Jack Jones says the neighborhood did a great job putting together its plans for the neighborhood’s park space.
“The difference with this development as compared to other developments, it used to be in the New Braunfels ETJ and there was a land swap a year ago or so and they were a voluntary annex into the city of Seguin. The bad news is that they were under the New Braunfels 2006 parks code. The good news is they are actually exceeding both codes, ours and theirs in regards to park development. They are supposed to do about 270,000 according to the New Braunfels code and our code is similar with the park development. But this plan is about $500,000 worth of park improvements so we are really excited about that,” said Jones.
Jeff Wurzbach, of MP Studios, is part of the development team working on the project, and he helped to design the park space. He told the council that there will be a number of amenities built inside the neighborhood park.
“We are proposing to include amenities such as a playground area which is just kind of straight off the main parking lot, a swimming pool for the community adjacent to that as well as an open play area in the middle. We’ve kind of ghosted in a soccer field just to kind of give a little bit of a scale reference for the size of the area and that area would be encircled as a potential future phase by a walking trail for neighborhood recreation and then we also did propose at some future phase some connectivity — trails connecting back into the neighborhood through those corridors back to some of the lots that were kind of designated on the master plan. We are proposing as well as to do some land sculpting around there, utilizing some of the spoils from the swimming pool and some of the part excavation on the site and create some separation from the street scape as well as providing buffer areas to the adjacent neighborhood. We are proposing in doing some seeding with wildflowers and some restoration of some of the prairie habitat and a little bit of a buffer between the residential lots and the active areas of the community,” said Wurzbach.
The second item approved by the council calls for the city to expand its sewer service in that area, which will connect to Lily Springs. City Attorney Andy Quittner says that the enlargement of the sewer infrastructure in that area will also allow for future growth.
“This part will go from Lily Springs and it crosses Cordova Road. We have had inquiries east of there for service so once this is enlarged, then there will be two between 46 and 123 and that will be sufficient to serve everything in our CCN that is developing there and the cost for this is roughly $14,000, $200 or $300 — will be our portion,” said Quittner.
Lily Springs is still in the early stages when it comes to construction, but the developers say they hope to begin moving dirt sometime over the next few months. The plan calls for approximately 420 new homes to be built. One of the later phases in the development also calls for some multi-family developments that would bring another approximately 130 units.
City makes way for new housing development in Seguin
