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Council approves $15,000 for downtown alley design work, cites larger capital estimates

Waxahachie City Council · January 5, 2026
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Summary

Waxahachie council approved a $15,000 TERS-funded professional-services request to design and engineer a pilot downtown alley; advocates said full alley build costs could be significantly higher and emphasized the need for a successful pilot.

The Waxahachie City Council voted Jan. 12 to authorize $15,000 from the TERS fund for professional services to design and engineer a pilot downtown alleyway revitalization project. The motion was presented as funding for design work only; full construction costs will be determined during the engineering and bidding stage.

Camaro Martinez, the city’s parks and leisure executive director, said the alley project grew out of the downtown master plan and a steering committee that evaluated seven candidate alleys…

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