Residential Land for Sale in Somerville, Texas

Newly Renovated Meadowsville Subdivision:

Only an Hour & Half from downtown Houston, we have developed new 1.0 Acre and 1.5 Acre lots that are fully surveyed, soil and water tested with immediate access to electrical service and 2 sides of road frontage along a new engineered road with bar ditches and culvert improvements.

We have revitalized this decades-old subdivision which has never before featured a proper road, ditch or drainage system. The old patchwork road has been dug up and completely re-surfaced with 6" of machine-compacted crushed concrete with lime subgrade and bar ditches on each side of the road. Approximately 5,000 feet of road has been re-surfaced and 2,400 tons of crushed concrete material. Culvert and drainage systems have been civil engineered with rip rap for erosion control and designed for a 100-Year storm event.

New Bluebonnet Electric poles, lines and anchors have been installed throughout the subdivision with easy access to come off the main with a secondary pole for your home.

Originally platted in 1964, this subdivision features 38 half-acre (0.50) lots which we have now combined into double lots (1.0 acre) and triple lots (1.5 acre) to ensure modern compliance with water district and septic permitting rules. Each 1.0 Acre lot measures approximately 295' x 148' and each 1.5 acre lot approximately 443' x 148' (with some minor variations between each pairing).

Burleson County regulations require 2-acre lot size minimums for new subdivisions utilizing water wells and septic systems, making country land in this area expensive. Because this subdivision was originally platted in 1964, the legacy lot sizes are grandfathered in and exempted from the county minimum lot size regulations.

We have carefully examined the county and water-district regulations for new water well and onsite-septic-facility installations to ensure the lot dimensions are capable of accommodating an average 2,500 square foot home as well as accommodating the setback lines, utility easements and spacing requirements from the water district.

Each new lot comes with a New Survey where we have overlayed the design spacings for the future resident's Water Well, OSSF Drip Field, and OSSF tank to serve as a spacing guide for new customers. This survey design has been reviewed in detail with both the Post Oak Savannah Groundwater District (POSGD) and the County Environmental Office. These plans conform to the spacing regulations when installed with a pressure-cemented and permitted well and ensure that neighboring lot's spacing designs do not adversely impact your lot's design. Water well locations for each specific lot have been staked with T-posts on the ground by our surveyor.

A Local Registered Sanitarian has helped us to design the site plans for future OSSF systems. The Registered Sanitarian will work together with your septic installer when it comes time to apply for a permit from the County Environmental Office.

Light Deed Restrictions to Protect your Value

• We have modernized the deed restrictions to protect your investment and privacy on the land.
• No Commercial or Industrial uses or uses as junkyards or salvage yards shall be permitted. No pigs or dog boarding establishments.
• New or late-model Manufactured Homes (within 5 years) must be HUD-Compliant and permanently affixed, under skirted, and anchored with connection to Septic prior to occupancy.
• Basic covenants protecting against un-managed fires, accumulation of junk and/or trash, discharge of firearms and minimum standards on fencing aesthetics.

Water Quality and Depths:

This property resides in the Yegua-Jackson Aquifer, which is the most prolific aquifer to draw from in the district. Well depths average from 200 - 300 feet in depth with enough gallons per minute of production to sufficiently provide for an average family of 4.

We have incorporated the water district's standards for water well spacings into the new survey so that buyers have guidance on a design that can get approved and permitted. The new survey overlays water well sites that are spaced 50' from property lines, 50' from septic tanks and 100' from drain fields.

When starting to plan for your homesite, Residents will want to apply for a "Limited Production Well" with the POSGWD. Annual production limits on these types of wells is more than 165,000 gallons per year, well more than enough to support a full family of 4 in an average 2,500 sq. ft. home with lawn irrigation. This can be done directly or through your well driller. The limited production well ensures residential / family use only and prevents aquifer levels from dropping due to activities such as selling water or feeding a commercial nursery, etc. Owners of a Limited Production Well pay an annual production fee to POSGWD and file a simple online annual report based on meter activity.

Soil Type:

Soil types in this area are Class 4 Clay which require the use of drip irrigation systems.

Electrical Service:

Bluebonnet Electric Coop provides electric service to new customers. We have just installed new primarily electricity service lines throughout the community, including primary poles, lines, guides and anchors that will run the entire length of Meadow Street. Each lot configuration will have access to the primary line to extend for service.

Road and Access Features:

• 2 Points of Access Entry available from Highway 60 along Meadow Street and Elm Trail. These 2 roads are connected by Lake Road at the back of the subdivision.
• County Maintenance of the roads runs along the first 800 feet of Meadow Street and Elm Trail. County maintenance ends at the Greenspace & Culvert branch and interior roads become private beyond the culverts. Individual lot owners will own the private road along the frontage of their lots survey.
• New 24" x 30' culverts have been capped and set at the Greenspace branch of each road which are now reinforced by 6 x 9" rip rap rock to support the flow of future home construction traffic while also providing effective drainage and watershed protection from seasonal storms.
• Additional 15" and 18" Culverts have been set further along the interior road where necessary for effective drainage of low spots.

To Apply for a 911 Address:

The office will need to know where you plan to install your driveway, culvert and the dimensions of your planned structure in order to assign the address. All new driveways are required to feature a culvert as to not impede the flow of drainage.

Cell Service:

Being in close proximity to Lake Somerville, this tract has excellent cellular/mobile phone coverage across all of the major carriers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc).

This property is excellent for a variety of uses:

• Develop your own country home under the stars living close to the lake.
• Build a cabin for your own private camping retreat.
• Live off the land at your own pace.
• Develop a small garden or farm homestead.
• Raise Horses, Goats, Sheep and other country animals.