A planned 36-unit manufactured home community across SE 36th Avenue from Belleview High School is moving forward after the Belleview City Commission unanimously approved both an annexation agreement and a developer’s agreement tied to the project.
The development, proposed by Mark Martin LLC, is located in unincorporated Marion County but sits just outside the city’s boundary line along one of Belleview’s more visible corridors. With commission approval, the project is expected to transition into the city limits through annexation while gaining access to municipal water and sewer service.
City records show the developer intends to construct a manufactured home community on the site and has already submitted utility plans outlining how the project will connect to Belleview’s infrastructure.
Each home within the development will ultimately connect to Belleview’s utility system and be billed individually for water and sewer service.
The agreement requires the developer to pay all applicable system development charges, connection fees, and deposits prior to receiving service. Because the property currently lies outside city limits, the agreements are closely tied to annexation. The developer acknowledges that the property must be annexed into Belleview once it meets eligibility requirements under state law. That provision allows the city to extend utilities beyond its borders while ensuring the development is eventually incorporated into the municipal tax base.
As part of the deal, the developer is also required to grant permanent utility easements to the city. Those easements provide ongoing access for installation, maintenance, and repair of water and sewer infrastructure serving the site. The agreement includes enforcement provisions allowing the city to recover costs or pursue legal remedies if the developer fails to meet its obligations. The terms are binding not only on the current developer but on any future owners of the property.
The project’s location, directly across from Belleview High School, places it in a highly visible area where growth pressures have become more apparent in recent years. Developments just outside the city limits have increasingly sought access to Belleview utilities, triggering annexation agreements as a condition of service.
With both agreements now approved, the project clears a key hurdle and moves closer to construction, adding to the ongoing wave of residential growth shaping the greater Belleview area.
