TRANSPORTATION UPDATES City, county, developer collab on FM 1464 connection
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A $14.4 million Owens Road project connecting Hwy. 90A to FM 1464 is moving forward after Sugar Land City Council approved a $465,000 design contract with a planning firm as well as an interlocal agreement with Fort Bend County at a June 21 meeting. The project is part of a larger plan to preserve the former Central Unit prison property and the adjacent area to develop a light industrial business park. Per meeting documents, the 258-acre site was purchased by the city in 2016 after the prison’s 2011 closure. Currently, the site is accessible through Circle Drive, which will ultimately be Owens Road, per city documents, though Sugar Land Mayor Joe Zimmerman said the Owens name may not stick because the county previously agreed to call the roadway John Sharp Boulevard. The project will be executed in three parts through three entities—which requires “major coordination” to ensure alignment across each section, according to city documents.
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The new roadway will connect Hwy. 90A to FM 1464 and will be done in three separate parts. SOURCE: CITY OF SUGAR LAND/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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ALL INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE WAS UPDATED AS OF JUNE 28. NEWS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE OR OTHER LOCAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS? EMAIL US AT SLMNEWS@COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM. list, which included cleaning up the project work sites, was completed at the end of June. Timeline: November 2021-June 2022 Cost: $1.1 million Funding source: TxDOT Green Ribbon program Hwy. 59 landscape renovations A landscape enhancement project along 8.3 miles of Hwy. 59 from Brazos Canyon Drive to Wright Road is complete, Texas Department of Transportation officials said June 29. Updates included removing dead veg- etation and adding native, hardy and maintenance-friendly plants. It aims to mitigate noise pollution, officials said. The city of Sugar Land paid for the design and maintenance, and TxDOT covered installation. The final punch
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The city will be responsible for the section connecting Hwy. 90A to the business park via Owens Road. Through the developer agreement, the property developer will be responsible for constructing the portion of Owens Road and utilities within the business park. Fort Bend County will construct the remainder of Owens Road from the business park—which is aligned
with the west city limit boundary— to FM 1464. According to the meeting, the project was included in the voter-ap- proved Fort Bend County mobility bond in 2017 and 2020 for a total county fund of $13.3 million. Per the interlocal agreement, the city will contribute $615,000 for the design of that portion.
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