A public hearing on the issue was pulled from last week's agenda after the city attorney determined that the city's charter requires that an annexation ordinance to be effective within 30 days of the public hearing. "That is not enough time to enter into a development agreement," the city attorney's office stated in its letter."

Approximately 75% or 25 acres of the property is developable after accounting for public rights of way. Shapiro's ownership prompted the annexation. The city is in support because it would then get to control development of the site. The US Bureau of Land Management, which owns nine developable acres, said it would not contest the annexation as long as Henderson put its head together with Clark County, which had previously eyed the site for affordable housing.

No date has been set for the item to come back before the City Council.