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COLLEYVILLE OKS SETTLEMENT WITH DEVELOPER DESPITE VETO

Date Thursday, September 3, 1998

Source STAR-TELEGRAM WRITER

Section METRO

Edition NORTHEAST AM

COLLEYVILLE - The City Council has overridden Mayor Richard Newton's veto of a lawsuit settlement between the city and Raman Chandler, developer of the Caldwell Creek Addition.

As part of the settlement, unanimously approved by the council last night, the city will get an approximately 24-foot swathe of land along the length of the subdivision for part of a regional trail system. In return, the city will waive $7,132 and return $4,651 in development fees for the Caldwell Creek Addition. The settlement also gives Chandler approval for the Villas at Caldwell Creek Addition, a proposed subdivision off John McCain Road.

"This was a unique situation that has been going on since 1991 that was resolved so we can complete the trail," said Councilman Nelson Thibodeaux, a resident of Caldwell Creek Addition who abstained from voting.

At the council meeting, Chandler also promised to give the city a strip of land behind a commercial property near Caldwell Creek Addition for part of the trail.

Newton vetoed the council's unanimous approval of the settlement last week because he said it provided too many concessions to the developer and circumvented the city's zoning processes and ordinances