A decision on rezoning more than 930 acres of land to High Industrial will return to the Planning and Zoning Commission agenda Tuesday night.
In December, the commission voted to recommend denial of the zoning change request for 934 acres located near State Highway 80 and Farm to Market Road 1984. The change would allow the land to be developed into an industrial rail park and a manufacturing facility. Besides concerns about two creeks that run through the property and other issues, the commission had not seen the economic development agreement that San Marcos had struck with Katerra, a company slated to build a manufacturing facility on 66 acres of the land in question. Other portions of the land would be developed into the SMART Terminal Rail Park.
Since the Dec. 11 P&Z meeting, other concerns have arisen, such as whether all of the acreage being considered for rezoning and annexation is within the San Marcos extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). In a presentation to the San Marcos City Council, which is deliberating the annexation of the 934 acres, planning head Shannon Mattingly said that some of the acreage is within the Martindale ETJ. The city of Martindale and the city of San Marcos reportedly have met to discuss the matter; a meeting between the two cities regarding the development is the subject of an executive session item at Tuesday’s Martindale City Council meeting.
