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New Point and NewPoint Estates residents urge Missouri City to avoid routing Sienna traffic through neighborhood streets
Summary
Multiple New Point and NewPoint Estates residents told the joint council/P&Z hearing that proposed connectors would push heavy daily traffic onto narrow neighborhood roads, raising safety, property-value, and drainage concerns.
A string of residents from New Point, NewPoint Estates and surrounding neighborhoods told Missouri City officials at the April 27 public hearing that the draft thoroughfare plan options would harm neighborhood safety and character if used for daily through-traffic. Speakers repeatedly argued that roads in their subdivisions are narrow, have open ditches, and were not designed for large throughflows.
"To open up these roads for traffic alleviation . . . would cause major issues with congestion and potential safety hazards," said Elijah Gilbert of London Lane, who presented a handout with traffic counts and said peak flows around the HEB at Sienna Parkway and Highway 6 reached about 50,000 vehicles per day in his overlay. Other speakers echoed concerns: Tiago Salleas called NewPoint Drive a semi‑private, one‑way street that would require property encroachments to expand, and Camilo Contreras, an engineer, noted garbage‑truck struggles and business-related backups at the Highway 6 intersection.
Residents also raised environmental and infrastructure concerns: Esther Dunn and others said sidewalks and bike lanes are lacking and pointed to the presence of wetlands and drainage ditches; several speakers warned the nearby fast‑food businesses already create queuing that would spill back into neighborhood streets. William Nally and Barry Brazil urged staff to reassess entry points and to ask whether airport property or rights-of-way would be affected by certain alignments.
Neighbors asked the city to prioritize routes that use existing high-capacity corridors (South Post Oak, McKeever, Knight Road, and FM 521) or to designate controlled emergency-access gates rather than open daily thoroughfares cutting through established subdivisions. The public record shows this item will next be considered by the Planning & Zoning Commission (May 13) and then by City Council for possible adoption after additional study.
