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Council approves $57,115 traffic engineering study after Lewisville ISD school closure
Summary
Following the Lewisville ISD decision to close Highland Village Elementary, council approved a $57,115 traffic-engineering contract to study route and intersection impacts for students reassigned to McAuliffe and Heritage. Council debated alternatives including TxDOT school-zone requests and school-district coordination before the 72D0 vote.
The Highland Village City Council voted 72D0 on March 25 to authorize an agreement with Maldonado Burkett LLP for professional traffic-engineering services to study traffic pattern changes after Lewisville ISD voted to close Highland Village Elementary.
The contract is for $57,115 and will examine how about 347 displaced students will be reassigned and routed to McAuliffe and Heritage elementary schools, whether additional city or TxDOT infrastructure changes are needed, and whether signal timing, school-zone changes or other mitigations should be recommended.
Why it matters: council members and residents expressed concern that moving an elementary school population could concentrate morning and afternoon traffic at already constrained points in the city. The study will provide…
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