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Guadalupe County residents press commissioners to drop Hoffman Road from draft thoroughfare plan
Summary
Hundreds of residents and multiple commissioners sparred over a draft Guadalupe County thoroughfare plan after maps showed a proposed expansion of Hoffman Road that residents say would take private land, cross floodplain and unstable bluffs and risk repeated costly repairs. Commissioners agreed to revise maps, post updates and hold a workshop to consider next steps.
Hundreds of residents, many from Hoffman Road, filled the Guadalupe County courtroom on Jan. 6 to oppose a proposed extension and realignment in the county's draft thoroughfare plan that would widen Hoffman Road and build a new river crossing.
Residents said the plan, as presented in a recent engineer's draft, would require large right-of-way acquisitions and imperil homes, farmland and wildlife habitat. Mark Valley, a Hoffman Road resident, told the court that "approximately 35 properties would be subject to eminent domain" and warned that "at least 7 cases, homes would likely be seized entirely, including multiple generational family homes that cannot be replaced." Several speakers also raised floodplain, erosion and abandoned-well concerns along Salt Creek and the Guadalupe River.
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