A proposed subdivision of more than 1,000 homes beside Ray Roberts Lake is on hold until at least January after the Sanger City Council voted unanimously Monday to table the developer's requests, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported.
The Triple T Ranch project covers 387 acres near Union Hill Road and FM 1190 in Sanger's extraterritorial jurisdiction, on land around the lake that Denton County and the state have long treated as protected. Triple T Farms, the developer, is planning as many as 1,061 homes. The area's existing lake zoning requires lots of at least 1 acre.
Council members had three matters in front of them, according to the Record-Chronicle: whether to move the land into the medium residential category on the city's future land use map, out of ranch estate residential, whether to annex the land and rezone it as a planned development that would allow smaller lots, and whether to create a public improvement district.
Residents of such a district pay an extra assessment on top of city and county taxes to cover water, sewer and other infrastructure inside it. The items are now set to return Jan. 19.
A crowd outside the door
Turnout was large enough that police kept opponents outdoors at the historic church that serves as the council's meeting place and let them in a few at a time to speak. Speakers objected to the density and pointed to problems at Sanger's wastewater plant and other infrastructure.
Denton County Commissioner Ryan Williams, whose Precinct 1 includes Sanger, urged the council to reject the requests or postpone them so the county could talk with the developer. He said 67% of the homes would sit on lots no larger than 6,000 square feet and argued that the land was never meant for that kind of use.
