This is a request by North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) to temporarily use .659 acre of land as a temporary construction easement (TCE) for four years during its upcoming Rowlett Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Peak (WWTP) Flow Management Improvements Phase II Project. The location is the pad site of the former private Los Rios golf course maintenance building and is located immediately adjacent to the WWTP. There are no constructed improvements or trees impacted by the project. Once the project is complete, the pad site will be deconstructed and restored to the surrounding grade, and the turf will be re-established.
Chapter 26, Section 26.001 of the Parks And Wildlife Code states that “A department, agency, political subdivision, county, or municipality of this state may not approve any program or project that requires the use or taking of any public land designated and used prior to the arrangement of the program or project as a park, recreation area, scientific area, wildlife refuge, or historic site, unless the department, agency, political subdivision, county, or municipality, acting through its duly authorized governing body or officer, determines that:
(1) there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use or taking of such land; and
(2) the program or project includes all reasonable planning to minimize harm to the land, as a park, recreation area, scientific area, wildlife refuge, or historic site, resulting from the use or taking.”
The matter was heard by the Parks and Recreation Planning Board on February 27, 2024, and received the Board’s support.
No future action is anticipated.