BRENHAM IS NOW BIGGER AFTER ANNEXATIONS

  

The city of Brenham is now larger after today’s (Thursday’s) meeting of the City Council.

The Council followed the recommendations of the Planning and Zoning Commission in a joint meeting that included the last public hearing on the annexations.

The City Council answered numerous questions about how the areas would be zoned and property rights concerns during the public hearing.

The areas include  281.6 acres situation along Burleson Street and State Highway 36 North and Dixie Street, and adjacent to Westwood Lane, 30.5 acres along the western right of way of State Highway 36 beginning at the current city limits and in a southerly direction to Anderson Lane, 45.3 acres between Blue Bell Road and Tiaden Lane and tracts of Highway 290 east from Blue Bell Road to about 500 feet of Tiaden Lane, and 46.4 acres  located between FM 389 and Industrial Boulevard.

Businessman Larry Tegeler questioned some of the zoning restrictions that would prevent a mobile home park in the first tract along Burleson Street. Tegeler said this would be an ‘ideal place for a park’ and that the city had a ‘prejudice against’ mobile homes.  City Council Member Mary Barnes Tilley said this was not the intention and she certainly supported ‘affordable housing’ for everyone.

Julie Fulghum, the city’s director of developmental services said that there was no anti-mobile home attitude in the city but this area was not appropriate for a mobile home park.

The City Council voted unanimously to annex the first, second and fourth tract into the city.  Mayor Milton Tate cast the lone vote against the third tract, saying only that he ‘disagreed with it.’

The City Council will complete the annexation process at their next meeting.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS