Collin County’s population surpassed 1 million in 2018, and it is one of the fastest growing counties in the country.
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Nov. 8 bond election to the project. Like Collin County, Denton County is experiencing rapid growth, with 82 people a day moving in, Denton Coun- ty’s Transportation Consultant John Polster said. Regional connections Additional major roadways are in the works to help address the growth in Collin County. TxDOT is working on a potential bypass freeway for US 380, which will arc north of US 380 and south of the Outer Loop, although an exact route is still being determined. Earlier this year, McKinney City Council passed a resolution that favored an alignment for the bypass that travels into the city of Prosper. However, Pros- per o cials favor a di erent alignment that travels into McKinney. Meanwhile, Collin County commissioners passed a resolution saying the existing align- ment for US 380 in its current con gu- ration is best. TxDOT is scheduled to identify a pre- ferred US 380 bypass alternative and fur- ther develop its schematic design by the end of the year. This will be presented at a public hearing in early 2023. Whatever form relief comes in for US 380 is welcome, Fuller said. “We have struggled as a region with
[US] 380 and the de ciency of [US] 380. We are getting ahead with the Outer Loop for that high-growth area, which is obviously very bene cial,” Fuller said. The Outer Loop and the much-dis- cussed US 380 bypass are two proj- ects that will complement each other, Webb said. “The Outer Loop is going to be the midpoint between [US] 380 and the county line,” he said. “There is going to be signi cant distance between the two. What we were trying to do ... was put in a grid system for freeways.” To that extent, Collin County com- missioners are in the process of a cor- ridor study examining where to place another north-south freeway east of US 75 and connected to the Outer Loop, which would put it through McKinney. The goal is to provide some additional regional connectivity, Webb said. “Although that area is building out so rapidly, it’s going to be a challenge to nd another corridor to put a free- way somewhere between [US] 75 and the Outer Loop on the east side of the county,” he said.
Dallas County Tarrant County
Collin County Denton County
3,869,605
4M 3.5M
3,196,603
3M
2,456,914
1M 1.5M 2M 2.5M
2,332,629
500K
2022
0
2045 2040 2050 2035
2010 2015 2020 2025 2030
SOURCE: 2018 STATE DEMOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
A pathway to progress There is local demand for east-west connections in Collin County, especially on the western side, such as in McKin- ney, Webb said. “In that area is Celina and Prosper, and those two cities are growing like weeds, … and then you’ve got a lot of development going to the east,” he said. The upcoming road that will con- nect Preston to US 75 will “open up a huge area of Northern Collin
County,” Webb said. “That’ll be a way for people who are coming from that area who don’t want to use the Dallas North Tollway or Pres- ton; they can go all the way over to [US] 75 and then north or south,” he said. To increase the regional connection of the Outer Loop, the freeway will also connect from the Collin County/Denton County line and extend west to I-35 in Denton. Denton County commissioners are planning to allocate $30 million of a
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