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A sign at the corner of 13th and Locust streets advertises the new lots that will soon be available in Old Settlers Estates. The development sits north of the city park.

Final plat of Old Settlers Estates presented

by Nathan Arneal
Published 8/28/24

Developers Mike Arps and Kelly Thompson presented a final plat of Old Settlers Estates at the Aug. 20 city council meeting.

The new 20-lot housing development, which hopes to be selling lots this fall, sits north of the city park.

A few changes were made to the plat from the preliminary plan that was presented earlier in the year, mostly related to drainage.

A couple of drainage basins in the north corner lots were originally designed to hold a 50-year storm. City ordinance requires it to handle a 10-year storm, so they were reduced in size. The basins consist of a 1-foot depression 25 feet wide, which are covered by an easement and must remain grass.

The north half of the development will drain north into these basins. The south half will drain south onto 13th Street, then west to the Highway 79 then north out of town.

The new plat also shows all utilities in the front of each house. Behind the houses will be a drainage easement for runoff.

Council members Alex Legge and Ken Streff mentioned some improvements that may someday happen to the north end of the park now that there will be housing there. That includes parking and a sidewalk on the south side of 13th Street along the north side of the tennis courts and a sidewalk leading from the north edge of the park to connect to the sidewalks in the main part of the park south of the pool.

“I like the discussion that is happening, the dressing up of that north side (of the park),” Legge said, “because that is something none of us ever imagined was going to happen.”

The city approved a building permit for Thompson Construction to create the subdivision including grading, paving, sewer, storm sewer and water main construction. Thompson was asked about his timeline.

“We’d like to get started on dirt work the first part of September, as soon as we can,” Thompson said. “Depending on how fast that goes, then utilities to follow then paving yet this fall is our plan. By mid-October or the end of October we’d hope to have it paved and ready.”

Approval of Ordinance 600, which would accept the final plat of Old Settlers Estates and the subdivision agreement was tabled until the Sept. 3 meeting so some of the language in the agreement can be tweaked, including placement and responsibility of street lights.

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