Houston City Council, just two months removed from Hurricane Harvey, will consider Wednesday whether to consent to the creation of a municipal utility district on the site of the recently closed Pine Crest Golf Club for the construction of homes in a floodplain.

The entire 151-acre site is a flood plain, with its center in the Brickhouse Gully floodway and much of the tract sitting within the 100-year floodplain; the southwest corner of the tract is in the 500-year floodplain.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Meritage Homes announced last May that it planned to build hundreds of single-family homes on the site at Clay and Gessner in a master-planned community to be called Spring Brook Village. The finished project is expected to include some 800 houses, with prices ranging from the high $200,000s to the mid-$500,000s.

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Council will consider the approval of a MUD to develop roads, water, sewer and drainage infrastructure.

The proposal comes to council just one week after it approved $10 million to buy out 60 flood-prone homes, including some about three miles downstream from the proposed development, and two months after Harvey flooded thousands of homes in Houston and Harris County.

Councilwoman Brenda Stardig, who represents the area, said in a letter to Mayor Sylvester Turner that she supports the creation of the utility district based on information about "restrictions and commitments" provided by MetroNational officials. MetroNational is selling the land to Meritage for the development.

Meritage Homes's Houston division president Kyle Davison said when the subdivision plan was announced that the firm seeks to "create a community that provides a unique sense of arrival and lifestyle not currently available in Houston."