# Annexation Ordinance O-25-37 (Lollie Rd) The City of Conway's ordinance accepting the annexation of approximately 296.21 acres east of Lollie Road into the City — the Project Stratus footprint, less the 160-acre Adams parcel that O-25-39 separately rezones. Adopted 8-0 at the April 22, 2025 regular Council meeting; based on the April 3, 2025 Faulkner County Court annexation order; recorded with the Faulkner County Circuit Clerk 2025-05-12. The corpus's first Tier-1 anchor for the project's annexation footprint. ## What's inside - `O-25-37 An Ordinance Annexing +-296.21 Acres 2684 Feet East of Lollie Rd To The Northwest and 1333 Feet East of Lollie Rd To The Southwest.pdf` — the executed and recorded ordinance, 4 pages, image-only at 200 DPI. Faulkner County Inst. # L202506520, recorded 2025-05-12 14:14:26 by Nancy Eastham, Faulkner County Circuit Clerk, by Diana Varner, D.C., $30.00 fee. The companion ordinance **O-25-38** (39.50 acres E of Lollie Rd and abutting 1300, 1320, and 1350 Lollie Rd) is referenced in the [[Conway City Council Agendas and Minutes on Project Stratus|April 22 council minutes]] as having been adopted 8-0 in the same meeting; the ordinance text itself does not appear as a separate PDF in this production, but the council minutes record its adoption. ## Key takeaways - **Annexation authority.** The City accepts the annexation "by order of the County Court of Faulkner County, Arkansas heretofore entered on April 3, 2025." Under Arkansas annexation law (Ark. Code § 14-40-301 et seq. for the small-municipality "100% annexation by petition" route), county-court orders that grant petitions for annexation become effective upon city acceptance. - **Two non-contiguous parcels totaling 296.21 acres.** "BEING SITUATED IN SECTION 19, TOWNSHIP 05 NORTH, RANGE 14 WEST" — 81.47 acres bounded by the Culberson Family Trust, the Adams Property, [[Conway Development Corporation]] property (DB 2012 P 1063), and the Lynda Culberson Trust. AND: "BEING SITUATED IN SECTIONS 20, TOWNSHIP 05 NORTH, RANGE 14 WEST" — 214.74 acres bounded by City of Conway property (DB 2011 P 11637), the David and Deena Culberson property, the Lynda Culberson Trust, the Arkansas Golf Center, Inc. property, the Culberson Family Trust, the C.L. Tucker Creek, and the Spatz/Hart property. - **Zoning on annexation.** "Said territory being situated in Faulkner County, Arkansas, shall be a part of the City of Conway and **shall be zoned I-3**" (Section 1, emphasis added). The annexation immediately establishes I-3 (heavy industrial) zoning on the new acreage — without a separate rezone — because annexed territory is zoned to the "most restrictive applicable" classification under the Conway Zoning Code, and Section 1 explicitly sets the zone. This is materially different from the separate O-25-39 process which rezones the Adams Property (in Section 30, already in the city) from A-1 to I-3. **Effect: ~456 acres total (296.21 newly annexed and zoned I-3, plus 160.57 acres of the Adams Property rezoned A-1 → I-3) become contiguous I-3 development around the Lollie Road / Donnell Ridge Road intersection.** - **Ward assignment.** "Said lands are hereby assigned to and designated as part of Ward 1 of the City of Conway, Arkansas" (Section 2). - **Service provision on effective date.** "The annexed land shall be provided the following services immediately upon the effective date of this annexation: police protection; fire protection; maintenance of any publicly dedicated streets within the property; and **opportunity to connect to potable water, electric, and telecommunications services provided by Conway Corporation at the expense of the property owner**" (Section 3, emphasis added). Conway Corporation as the default municipal utility for water/electric/telecom on the annexed land. - **Conway Development Corporation as the adjacent landowner.** The legal description names "the CONWAY DEVELOPMENT PROPERTY RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 2012, PAGE 1063" as the west boundary of the Section 19 parcel. [[Conway Development Corporation]] already owned adjacent land before the project — this is the parcel-level evidence of CDC's prior land-banking in the area Gates referenced in the April 22 minutes ("a brief history of the CDC's participation in the development of the Lollie Road area"). - **C.L. Tucker Creek as the eastern hydrological boundary.** The Section 20 legal description traces "the C. L. TUCKER CREEK TOB" (top of bank) along the eastern boundary — a regulated watercourse that will be relevant to the stormwater design (see [[Project Stratus Permits Sequencing and Stormwater]]) and to ADEQ permitting. - **Recording delay.** The ordinance was passed 2025-04-22 but not recorded until 2025-05-12 — a 20-day gap typical for ordinance-effectuation. The April 28, 2025 attestation date from Denise Hurd (p. 3) confirms the certification was completed before recording. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Bart Castleberry]] — Mayor; signed. - [[Denise Hurd]] — City Clerk/Treasurer; attested. - [[Conway Development Corporation]] — adjacent landowner (DB 2012 P 1063 north of the Adams Property). - Faulkner County Court — issued the April 3, 2025 annexation order. - Nancy Eastham — Faulkner County Circuit Clerk. - Diana Varner, D.C. — Deputy Clerk who entered the recording. - Adjacent landowners named in the legal description: Culberson Family Trust (DB 2011 P 6771), Lynda Culberson Trust (DB 2021 P 01355), David and Deena Culberson (DB 1998 P 30225), David and Deena Culberson 80' right-of-way (DB 2005 P 20149), Arkansas Golf Center, Inc. (DB 2023 P 14606), the Spatz/Hart Property (DB 2017 P 06497), and "the CITY OF CONWAY PROPERTY RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 2011, PAGE 11637." ## Concepts invoked - [[A-1 to I-3 Rezoning (Conway)]] — though this ordinance is annexation, not rezoning, it sets I-3 zoning on the annexed parcels. - Arkansas annexation procedure under § 14-40-301 et seq. - Conway Zoning Code Sections 201.1 and 201.3 (zoning-district boundary map; see [[Rezone Ordinance O-25-39 and REZ-0425-0052]]). ## Events documented - 2025-04-03 Faulkner County Court annexation order (not in the corpus). - [[2025-04 Conway City Council Adopts O-25-37 O-25-38 and O-25-39]] — April 22, 2025 Council meeting where all three ordinances adopted 8-0. - 2025-05-12 recordation of O-25-37 in Faulkner County records (Inst. # L202506520). ## Cross-references - [[Rezone Ordinance O-25-39 and REZ-0425-0052]] — the companion rezone of the Adams Property. - [[Conway City Council Agendas and Minutes on Project Stratus]] — the April 22 minutes recording the 8-0 vote. - [[Conway Planning Commission Reports April and May 2025]] — the April 21 PC recommendation that preceded Council adoption. - [[Project Stratus MOU and April 1 Special Council Meeting]] — the MOU referenced "a prospective site"; this ordinance establishes the City's commitment to the project's footprint. ## Open questions / follow-ups - The April 3, 2025 Faulkner County Court annexation order is the predicate document for this ordinance and is not in the corpus. It would be in the Faulkner County Court files as a public record retrievable from the county. - O-25-38 (39.50 acres) does not appear as a separate ordinance PDF in this production despite being mentioned in the April 22 minutes as adopted 8-0. The reply to the City could note this gap; the full text of O-25-38 may be in the City of Conway code repository (municode) as a publicly-posted ordinance. - The petition or municipal-court process that led to the April 3 annexation order is not in the corpus.