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Consultants present draft Manvel comprehensive plan and thoroughfare updates; council presses on rural preservation and MUD annexation
Summary
Keating Keast Collaborative walked council through a near-complete draft of Manvel's comprehensive and thoroughfare plans, proposing map edits and priorities for environment, growth capacity, economic development and recreation. Council members raised repeated concerns that thoroughfare lines could signal unwanted development in rural areas and asked for stronger rural-preservation boundaries and clearer MUD annexation guidance.
Keating Keast Collaborative representatives Gary and Jennifer presented a draft update to Manvel's comprehensive master plan and major thoroughfare plan, summarizing public engagement, data findings and proposed map changes.
The consultants described several map edits carried from earlier workshops: a modest realignment of Kirby at the south end, an extension of Charlotte toward State Highway 288 to anticipate future master-planned connections, a scaled-back Iowa Lane collector south of Highway 6, removal of a McCoy-to-Patterson collector alignment, and downgrading of Lewis Lane and Cemetery Road to lower collector classifications due to short roadway lengths. They also…
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