Spring - Klein Edition | February 2022

DECADES

in the making

Changing leadership The projects have been a collabo- ration between Harris County com- missioner precincts with Precinct 4 spearheading e©orts in the Spring area. With decennial redistricting likely going into e©ect in late March, Spring will now fall under Precinct 3 instead of Precinct 4. “I don’t know what the future holds for the Spring Creek Green- way,” Howlett said. “Because we don’t even know anything about the new commissioner that’s coming into this revised precinct now. So I’m very concerned about the future of the greenway.” In a Jan. 27 interview, Precinct 3 Commissioner Tom Ramsey said he is already working with Clark Candon, a Houston-based landscape archi- tecture rm, to create a parks master plan for the entire precinct. “I am championing [Precinct 4] Commissioner [Jack] Cagle’s com- mitment to parks,” he said. “We think [parks] are a priority. We’re going to do some great things in our parks in the new [Precinct] 3.”

Although the greenway projects were conceived in the late 1970s, planning, land acquisition and construction will likely continue for many years to come.

1979: Spring Creek Greenway project unocially begins.

1990s: Trail and park construction begins.

2004: Cypress Creek Greenway Project begins as a committee within nonprot Cypress Creek Flood Control Coalition.

2018: Voters approve a ood bond with $100 million for Cypress Creek green space acquisition and ood plain preservation and $50 million for natural ood plains along Spring Creek.

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2020

1980s: Land acquisition for both projects begins.

2004: The rst parts of Spring Creek Greenway are designed and built, linking parks along the Spring Creek.

2011: Cypress Creek Greenway launches.

2021: Land acquisitions for both projects reach 12,000 acres.

SOURCES: HARRIS COUNTY PRECINCT 4, HARRIS COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICTCOMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER

in January 2020. Negotiations on that property, however, came to a stand- still in December and HCFCD ocials did not have an update on the project’s

of being acquired. The Spring Creek Greenway con- tains 19.82 miles of unconnected trails and is about 50% complete, Johnston said. Much of these trails in the Spring area are already merged; however, a quarter-mile section that would link trails from City Place to Dennis John- ston Park has yet to be constructed. This missing stretch of green- way runs adjacent to ExxonMobil’s campus in City Place. Negotiations between Harris County and Exxon- Mobil leaders regarding the trail have stalled for years, according to Mike Howlett, who retired from the county

in 2019 after 25 years. “[ExxonMobil] leadership would change or di©erent things would hap- pen that would pretty much put the county back to square one trying to negotiate a trail alignment,” he said. Since then, negotiations with Exx- onMobil regarding the trail have been taken over by Coventry—the devel- oper of City Place. “They have agreed to construct that missing quarter-mile connection at I-45,” Johnston said. ExxonMobil declined to comment on the negotiations. Coventry did not respond to requests for comment.

future as of press time. Ongoing negotiations

Once connected, the Spring Creek Greenway will span 40 miles and follow Spring Creek from Hum- ble through City Place and into Tomball. Since the 2018 bond, the HCFCD has invested about $4.5 million into Spring Creek and has acquired about 170 acres thus far. About 69 acres are still in the process

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