BY HANNAH BROL
One more thing
Managing the impact
Montgomery County Precinct 4:
• Spans 314 square miles • Has about 1,000 miles of road and 2,000 miles of open ditch • Is roughly 87% unincorporated
Earlier this year, Gray said he also worked with state legislators on House Bill 2012, which allows counties to enforce regulations against roadside vendors. The bill was passed during the 89th Texas Legislature, and Montgomery County commissioners approved roadside vendor and solicitor regulations in August. Effective Sept. 1, the ordinance bans the solicitation of money as well as the sale or distribution of food and merchandise on public highways, roads or rights of way. “With all the growth … we’ve had a lot of people moving to the area that set up on the roadside … creating unsafe road conditions,” Gray said. “This bill allows our law enforcement to do what they need to keep those people moved out of the right of way and median areas.”
Precinct 4 also launched two volunteer-based litter abatement programs in January. Precinct 4’s Adopt-A-County Mile Program allows interested, qualified groups or organi- zations to contract with Montgomery County annually to clean a designated stretch of roadway on a quarterly basis. As of late November, Gray said about 28 miles of roadway had been adopted with about 680 miles of road still available. Similarly, Precinct 4’s Community Clean-Up Program allows individuals, families, schools, groups, businesses or private civic organizations to remove litter from public areas. For both programs, participants coordinate clean up dates with Precinct 4, and Gray’s office provides the necessary equipment and supplies. “We love that residents and people in the community want to have clean roadways as well,” Gray said. “They realize we can’t get it all [and] we have limited resources … so this helps.”
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SOURCE: MONTGOMERY COUNTY PRECINCT 4/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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