Guadalupe County discusses $505,000 design proposal for North Guadalupe Street ahead of EOC project

Guadalupe County officials on Feb. 2025 discussed proposals to design improvements to North Guadalupe Street so planned county projects — including an Emergency Operations Center, an animal-control expansion and storage facilities — can move forward.

The court reviewed an engineering package from Pape Dawson that would study and design the corridor in phases, and separate the roadway improvements from the county’s building projects so construction can proceed without delaying ARPA-funded building work. "The city is requiring us to be a corridor, from Strimple Street all the way to Interstate 10," Patrick Pinder said while showing a map of the county-owned property and the proposed work. He described the proposals as three separate tasks: civil engineering, geotechnical studies and surveying.

County leaders and staff discussed timing and costs. Pinder said the immediate design-phase costs for the preferred approach are roughly $141,000 for engineering, about $82,500 for geotechnical work…