The Houston-Galveston Space Council (H-GAC) shall be internet hosting a sequence of public conferences, beginning this week, to obtain suggestions on its 2050 regional transportation plan.
The H-GAC is an affiliation of native governments and elected officers from 13 Gulf Coast counties, protecting 12,500 sq. miles and greater than 7 million folks. Its 2050 regional transportation plan will act as a blueprint to information transportation investments throughout the area for the subsequent quarter century, in line with the H-GAC. The draft of the 2045 regional transportation plan lists lots of of tasks throughout the area.
“It’s important that we start planning for the long run now, and these preliminary public conferences are how we start that course of in order that we hear from residents which might be immediately impacted by future tasks,” H-GAC assistant transportation director Allie Isbell mentioned in a information launch in regards to the conferences. “These public conferences are a possibility for residents to inform us what considerations they’ve associated to transportation in the present day and what they wish to see.”
The conferences shall be held each nearly and in particular person throughout the Houston and Galveston space, and residents are invited to supply their suggestions on a wide range of points — from public transit to freight motion.
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Though H-GAC covers 13 counties, the group mentioned conferences are scheduled to be held within the eight counties that make up the H-GAC Metropolitan Planning Group: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller.
Here’s a chronological record of the county-by-county conferences, all of which shall be held each nearly and in particular person. They start Thursday:
Liberty County: 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, July 10, at A.J “Jack” Hartel Constructing, 318 San Jacinto St. in Liberty
Chambers County: 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 15, at Westside Complicated Group Middle, 8138 FM 3246 in Baytown
Waller County: 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, at 425 FM 1488, Ste. 106 in Hempstead
Galveston County: 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, July 24, at Galveston County North County Annex, 174 Calder Rd. in League Metropolis; and at Galveston County Well being District Mid-County Annex Group Room, 9850-A104 Emmett D. Lowry Expy. in Texas Metropolis
Brazoria County: 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, at Brazoria County Courthouse Administration Constructing, 237 E. Locust St., Ste. 205 in Angleton
Harris County: 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, July 31, at Houston-Galveston Space Council, 3555 Timmons Ln., Second Ground in Houston
Fort Bend County: 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, at Fort Bend County Libraries-Missouri Metropolis department, 1530 Texas Pkwy. in Missouri Metropolis
Montgomery County: 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, at Shenandoah Metropolis Corridor, 29955 I-45 South in Shenandoah
Digital-only assembly: 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12
Extra particulars in regards to the conferences will be discovered on the H-GAC web site.
