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Edinburg adopts city thoroughfare plan, adds five-year review requirement
Summary
The Edinburg City Council voted to adopt the city's thoroughfare plan, bringing the MPO-held document in-house and approving an amendment requiring a comprehensive review every five years.
Edinburg's City Council voted to adopt the city's thoroughfare plan and require a comprehensive review at least once every five years.
Assistant City Manager Tom Reina told the council the measure formalizes the roadway classifications and right-of-way widths the city will use for future planning after federal guidance shifted responsibility away from the regional MPO. "This is part of our comprehensive plan that we have throughout the city," Reina said during the council's discussion.
Council members clarified the action is largely administrative: the plan preserves the same roadway classifications previously managed by the Rio Grande Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization but places the city as the plan's steward. A council member proposed, and the council adopted, an amendment to require a citywide review of the thoroughfare plan every five years to ensure the document remains current with development patterns and infrastructure priorities.
City staff said substantive changes to the map or redesignations of rights-of-way would still require public hearings and council approval. The motion to adopt the plan with the five-year review requirement passed following an amendment and second.
The council did not provide a roll-call tally in the public record; the approval was taken by voice/raised hands. The adoption places the thoroughfare plan in the city's Unified Development Code framework and directs staff to work with legal counsel to finalize the amended language for signatures and implementation.
