Two annexation requests and a zoning action related to the mixed-use Cascadia development on Greeley’s western edge now await city council approval after having been given green lights this week by the city’s planning commission.

All three actions approved Tuesday pertain only to the proposed private development planned by Windsor-based developer Martin Lind’s Water Valley Co. The parcels affected do not include the $1.1 billion entertainment district dubbed “Catalyst” on city-owned land that the developer hopes will anchor the project and which is the target of a citizen-initiated petition drive hoping to derail the city’s financing plan for it.

The two annexations winning the commission’s unanimous approval Tuesday were the 219-acre Schmerge tract, west of 131st Avenue and about a mile

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