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Residents say Texas Hill chip-seal decision was made "with a lack of facts" and fault gift process
Summary
Residents near Texas Hill Road told the Hillsdale Town Board the decision to chip-seal the road lacked engineering, traffic and resident surveys and criticized the gift committee’s process and limited public input.
Public commenters pressed town leaders on the process behind a planned chip-seal on Texas Hill Road, saying the decision was made without basic fact-gathering and with insufficient opportunity for residents to weigh in.
“Miles” told the board that “the decision was made with a lack of facts,” citing no road survey, no traffic survey and no independent certified road engineer review and criticizing a compressed timeline that required residents to supply information within hours. Amy Davidson, who identified herself at the meeting, said residents had been given little guidance to resubmit a gift and had not received historical maintenance cost records needed to compare options.
Speakers said traffic diverted from a Route 23 closure has increased volumes and created new safety concerns on blind curves. One longtime attendee, Jeff Pate, urged more flexible public-comment procedures so the town hears from more residents in contentious cases like Texas Hill.
The board took no immediate new fact-finding motion in that public-comment block; later agenda items addressed the gift committee recommendation and related agreements.
