Tonight, Spring/Tomball residents have an opportunity to meet and hear from officials regarding the Grand Parkway:
Please join us for a Town Hall meeting
to address current developments with the Grand Parkway through Spring and the Tomball area (I-45 to FM 249):Klein Collins High School Auditorium
20811 Ella Blvd., Spring, TX. 77388May 25, 2005, 7:00 P.M.
And this is from Kim Jackson’s Chronicle story last week:
Several Harris County and TxDOT officials said they plan to attend the meeting and address residents’ concerns.
“Since there is confusion about the status and future of the proposed Grand Parkway, I agree that a public update is a good idea and will attend … ” said Art Storey, executive director of the Harris County’s Public Infrastructure Department, in an e-mail sent to the Spring coalition and the Houston Chronicle.
Storey said he would clarify several points at the meeting, including the fact that the Grand Parkway project is under TxDOT’s jurisdiction, and the state, not Harris County, would decide ” … when, whether, where, and by whom that facility will be constructed … .”
“The current role of the Harris County Toll Road Authority is to evaluate, in response to TxDOT’s invitation, whether we would propose to be TxDOT’s implementing partner for construction and operation of that highway as a toll road,” Storey said.
Storey said Mike Strech, Harris County Toll Road Authority director, or his representative, also would be at the meeting to show residents the particular route or routes the toll road authority is studying and how those routes relate to TxDOT’s study.
David Gornet, executive director of the Grand Parkway Association, said his message at the meeting would be that the association continues work on a supplemental environmental study on the F-2 segment.
I am trying to attend the meeting, depending on how child care works itself out.
And a big thank you to Charles Kuffner for also posting on this.
