Council to Discuss XTO Requests at Workshop April 8, 2010

Council will have a workshop session to discuss the XTO requests further. There will be no action taken. Action on the requests is currently scheduled for April 15, 2010.

There are two other items on the agenda - discussion of the bidding process for Corinth/Dobbs reconstruction, and discussion of the policies council directed the City Manager to publish concerning reuse of park property.

April 1st Council Session to be very busy

The April 1st Corinth City Council regular session will be a very busy one: there are 17 items on the agenda at this point, including 4 public hearings. At this time (the packet and agendas are not out) I believe that 3 of the hearings are related to action on the Dobbs Road Realignment. One hearing will be for the request for a drilling permit (with variances) for XTO energy for the the site southwest of the Oakmont/Lake Sharon intersection. Other business will include council review and action on the 2008-09 (last fiscal year) Audit, or Certified Annual Financial Review.

My understanding is that XTO is requesting 10 variances to our ordinances for their drilling permit. Some of the areas are in Tree Loss Mitigation, Salt water disposal, maintenance setbacks, well head to protected use distances, and letter of Credit requirements. All in all I expect a rather lengthy evening.

You can see more information at my Web site

Dobbs Road Realignment moving forward

CoServ has already appeared before the Corinth Planning and Zoning commission to get the plats and site plans related to the Dobbs Road realignment approved. Because there were some technical/legal defects in the applications, P&Z denied the Plat and Re-Plat until some conditions were met. All of the conditions had to do with legal notes attached to the Plats. The site plan was approved with the same conditions as the Plat.

It sounds confusing, doesn't it? The plats are legal documents with specific purpose for zoning and development. The plats as submitted were acceptable - they needed the additional legal information added, and there is no recourse to force the adding of the conditions after the plat is approved. Therefore, the commission denied the plats; provided the conditions have been met by the time this is in front of council, council can then approve the plats. It's probably no less confusing after I explained it....

This is all part of the process to get the intersection of Corinth Pkwy and Dobbs changed; Corinth Pkwy will now continue south past Dobbs and then curve to the right (west) and loop back towards quail run.