Transportation
BY TOMER RONEN
Officials eye Downtown Fulshear projects
Going forward
While the city continues to develop, Tommy Kuykendall, the Economic Development Corporations’ B-board president, said it’s important to keep the city's “small town feeling.” “People probably moved to Fulshear because of how it felt when you were here,” Kuykendall said. “In the old days, you would always have the same few people that were either on City Council or serving on the boards.” As the city continues to grow, “new blood” has entered those spaces, and people no longer all know each other, Kuykendall said. But it’s not all bad, he said. With a growing city comes an increased opportunity for business development as well as a potential move to downtown for City Hall.
In the last five years, Fulshear has grown at a 252% rate, according to five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. As the city grows, Fulshear has completed or is undergoing several downtown street projects and could soon bring up a new idea: one-way pairings. Instead of widening Main and Harris streets, which may require acquiring and tearing down existing buildings, the city would make each a one-way, with Wallis Street designated as a “release valve,” City Manager Zach Goodlander said. “If you have a very wide road, a major artery in downtown like that, it just means you’re going to have higher speed traffic, more traffic on just one particular road,” Goodlander said. Goodlander cited Rosenberg and Conroe—where the downtowns are split by Hwy. 90A and U.S. 105, respectively—as Houston area cities already employing the pairing systems.
Downtown Fulshear road projects
West Downtown street reconstruction East Downtown asphalt overlay Harris Street project
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MASON ROAD 1640 S Mason Rd (281) 395-6262
FALCON LANDING 9722 Gaston Rd (281) 574-3008
FULSHEAR 24940 FM 1093 (281) 391-4008
KATY MILLS 24417 Katy Fwy (281) 394-5780
CINCO RANCH 3050 W Grand Pkwy (281) 392-5554
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