The Director of the Planning and Development Department recommends that City Council adopt an ordinance approving and authorizing an interlocal agreement between the City of Houston and Houston-Galveston Area Council (“H-GAC”) for the Southeast Houston Mobility Plan (the “Plan”). The City will contract and pay for a firm to conduct the Plan at a cost of $500,000.00. This is a grant reimbursement project and requires a minimum local match of 20 percent. H-GAC will reimburse the City for $400,000.00 (80 percent of the total Plan cost) through a federal assistance grant award. The remaining $100,000.00 will be provided from Council District Service Funds ($35,000.00 from CM Robert Gallegos and $17,000.00 from CM Dwight Boykins) and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No. 8 ($48,000.00).
The Plan will focus on the Southeast Houston area bounded by Interstate Highway 610 to the north, State Highway 288 to the west, State Highway Beltway 8 to the south, and Interstate Highway 45 and Galveston Road to the east. The Plan will guide the City’s short, medium, and long-term multi-modal mobility planning efforts and identify implementation projects that will improve mobility and access in the study area. The study will include analysis of existing transportation and mobility conditions, existing infrastructure, and existing development, and will articulate current and future mobility challenges and local and regional mobility needs within the study area. The Plan also will include development growth scenarios, propose recommendations for major transportation corridors, and an implementation plan.
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Patrick Walsh, P.E.
Director
Planning and Development Department
cc: Ronald C. Lewis, City Attorney
Dale A. Rudick, P.E., Director, Public Works and Engineering