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Fulshear EDC reviews FY27 CIP slate including South FM 1093 gravity line, downtown drainage and possible parking garage
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Summary
City staff presented a set of FY27 CIP projects aimed at spurring development north and south of FM 1093, outlining a new gravity sanitary line, downtown tributary drainage improvements (project estimate about $5.2M with an EDC ask of ~25%, or roughly $1.1M), and early-stage planning for a downtown parking garage. No decisions were made Thursday.
City staff presented a package of potential Fiscal Year 2027 capital-improvement projects to the Fulshear Development Corporation on April 20, emphasizing that the meeting was informational and no formal action was expected.
David, the projects presenter, walked the board through construction-ready proposals and longer-term concepts. He described a South FM 1093 gravity sanitary line intended to gravity-feed flows southbound into the Lake Hill Farm lift station, saying "the project is the orange line only" and that the work would provide infrastructure to spur development south of FM 1093. On schedule, he said the gravity-line improvement is "very straightforward" and could be completed in a single fiscal year with design, or up to 18 months; a design-build approach could shorten that by "3, maybe 4 months." On decommissioning the current wastewater reclamation facility (WRF), David said the earliest projection is 2030 and the latest 2032, with multiple dependencies still to be resolved.
For downtown drainage, staff presented D22A, a continuation of tributary drainage work aimed at capturing sheet flow from the Huggins Dixon area and moving it out of the downtown districts. David reported a project estimate of about $5.2 million and said the EDC ask was modeled at one-quarter of the total project cost ("just under a quarter, which would be 1,000,000, 1.1 respectively"), offered as a starting point for future budgeting and discussion.
David also flagged a potential downtown parking garage as a higher-uncertainty, stakeholder-driven project on the CIP list. The board discussed different capacity projections (staff noted figures around 178 up to 268 parking spaces in various studies) and several board members urged consideration of ground-floor retail or EDC co-working/incubator space. David said the city has 100% designs for some west-downtown reconstruction projects and expects Fort Bend County to complete acquisition and letting steps for at least one adjacent project this fiscal year.
Board members asked about coordination with TxDOT for a 4th Street connection to FM 359 and were told that while the city would fund and permit its work, TxDOT would need to coordinate and may have changes that affect local sequencing. David cautioned that later TxDOT actions have, in past projects, required rework and that the city is working to reduce that risk.
No vote or formal EDC funding commitment was taken at the meeting; staff said they will return with further details and cost updates as projects move through scoping and the budget process.
