Transportation
BY SAM SCHAFFER
Liberty Hill annexes portion of CR 277
Leander approves pavement study Leander City Council on July 17 approved an agreement to have a pavement study conducted in the interest of developing its ve-year road maintenance plan. The $286,539.34 agreement with Applied Research Associates, Inc. provides for auto- mated data collection on roughly 352 miles of road, according to agenda documents. Two-minute impact Applied Research will use data collection vans with 3D scanning capabilities, accord- ing to the documents. A pavement condition index will be calculated for each segment of road. The PCI ranges from 0-100, with 100 being pavement in excellent conditions. In a 2021 survey, 279 miles of road had an average PCI of 84.3.
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Liberty Hill City Council voted July 23 to annex a 2.8-acre segment of CR 277. The segment of road begins at Hwy. 29 and extends about 1,700 feet north to Falcon Lane, according to agenda documents. The gist The approval of the request means Liberty Hill will take over jurisdiction of the segment of road from Williamson County, according to the documents. The city will now be responsible for managing the road, including enforcing infrastructure standards and ensuring the road’s appearance and functionality align with the future plans of the city. How we got here The approval rounds out a previous annexation
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that should have included the road segment, according to the documents. “When a city annexes property next to a county road, state law [Chapter 43 of the Texas Local Government Code] requires the city to also annex the part of the road that runs alongside it,” Interim Director of Planning McKenzi Hicks said. The city neglected to annex the required roadway when it annexed the Mansions at Liberty Hill, a planned development next to the roadway segment, Hicks said.
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