The city and Jackson Township approved an Orderly Annexation Agreement (OAA) in March 2018 after more than 18 months of discussion and negotiation.

The agreement allows the city to annex up to 250 acres per year of land that meets specific criteria on adjacency and timing.

The city annexed its first 250 acres under the agreement in 2020 that was approved by the State of Minnesota in 2021. Certain of those parcels are being proposed for development tonight and several of those parcels will have developments proposed over the next several months.  The city and Shakopee Public Utilities (SPU) are spending several million dollars to bringing trunk water and sewer lines to this area, including construction of a lift station, to provide for future sewer and water connections to this entire region.  SPU also constructed a new water tower to the east to provide pressure and storage for the water system for this entire area. The trunk sewer and water facilities should be operation in mid-2023.

The city is now proposing to annex another 250 acres to begin the consolidation of the city limits.  The city and the township held a joint meeting earlier this year to discuss this annexation.

The area consists of existing rural residential homes, a mobile home park, Xcel Energy substation, commercial and light industrial uses. The parcels are in areas A, B and D of the OAA, all of which are allowed to be annexed at this time.  All of areas A and B will now be in the city limits along with portions of area D.  Much of area D is not available to be developed since is is in the flood plain.  Scott County is also exploring a possible annexation of another area in D for annexation at a later date.

Township roads in this area will become city streets for maintenance and plowing.

Once the annexations are approved for this area, the city will rezone them to comparable city zoning.  The current zoning in Scott County is Urban Reserve, C-1 and I-1.  Zoning in the city will be comparable to the County with Rural Residential (RR), Highway Business (B-1) and Light Industry (I-1).