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Commissioner Smith urges county-funded study to shape Highway 36A route amid rapid growth
Summary
Commissioner Smith asked the court to fund a county study to identify an optimal route for TxDOT’s proposed Highway 36A corridor and to protect potential corridor land from development, while staff and the judge said coordination with TxDOT and funding constraints mean any construction is years away.
Commissioner Smith asked Waller County’s budget committee to consider allocating money in the current budget cycle to begin a county-led study of the proposed Highway 36A corridor, saying early local planning would give the county influence over a route and reduce future right-of-way acquisition costs as development continues.
"If it's not in the budget, it doesn't happen," Commissioner Smith said, arguing that the county should act sooner rather than later to identify an ‘‘optimum route’’ and keep that corridor free of development that would increase acquisition costs…
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