The developer of the proposed Colorado Bend residential subdivision asked the Bastrop City Council Tuesday night to consider digging a new water well to assist his project.

“We are going to need to get water to the site,” Austin developer Paul Linehan told the council concerning the 550-acre development that is planned for an area west of Lover’s Lane and adjacent to the “bend” in the Colorado River near River Meadows.

The projected development is within the city’s extra-territorial jurisdiction.

Linehan also told the council that he would like his subdivision to eventually be annexed by the city.

Linehan said the residential development would be composed of lots averaging 20 acres in size. He said the project has undergone several revisions and that he had been involved since 2006 in discussions with various city and county officials about the feasibility of the project. On Wednesday Bastrop city planner Melissa McCollum said Linehan has yet to submit any initial plats to the city for Colorado Bend.

Council members and city manager Mike Talbot seemed to agree that what Linehan is asking for, concerning a newly dug water well and its infrastructure, would be an expensive project for the city to undertake and they would have to see how that request, plus the annexation request, would fit into the city’s long-range planning.