The timber company behind the Chenal residential and commercial subdivisions in west Little Rock has asked the city to annex another 180 acres for a new development.
PotlatchDeltic Corp. has not submitted development documents for the woods north of Kanis Road and west of Iron Horse Road, but city officials in a report on the annexation request noted the company is developing a single-family subdivision within the city adjacent to the site at a density of about 3.5 lots per acre.
The report was referring to the Wildwood Place subdivision on the south side of Denny Road and southeast of the Wildwood Center for the Performing Arts, said Walter Malone, the city planning manager.
The 180 acres is within Little Rock's extraterritorial reach and is zoned R-2, single family. That zoning has a minimum lot size of 7,000 square feet, the report said.
The annexation request, which would allow the property to obtain city services such as sewer and water, is scheduled to go before the Little Rock Planning Commission on Thursday. The staff has yet to make its recommendation, the report said.
Deltic Timber Corp. of El Dorado, which was behind the Chenal development for 30 years, merged with Potlatch Corp. of Spokane, Wash., earlier this year.