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BY SHELBIE HAMILTON & SUMMER SHERRED
McKinney City Council members unanimously authorized the sale of parkland that will be used for the development of the US 380 bypass project at a July 16 meeting. Roughly 2.8 acres of land in north McKinney will be purchased by the Texas Department of Transportation as part of the right-of- way acquisition process for the US 380 bypass project. The property is located on the north side of County Road 164 at the intersection with Taylor Burk Drive. The city will retain ownership of about 67 acres of parkland directly to the north for future use, McKinney Director of Engineering Gary Council approves parkland sale for US 380 bypass
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The US 380 bypass project will provide an eight-lane freeway with frontage roads that runs through north McKinney. The project began in 2017 with a variety of possible alignments that was later refined to fewer options in 2018, Graham said. The alignment was finalized in September 2023, with TxDOT officials selecting the blue alternative, which was one of five options named after different colors and composed of various road segments. The parkland being sold is located along one of these segments of the blue alternative. “I think [the Texas Department of Transportation] did a really admirable job to minimize the impact to the park,” Graham said. “We worked on the schematic to minimize any takings to this land.”
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Graham said at the meeting. The land sale will follow the procedures outlined in state law to allow city-owned land that has been designated for use as a park to be sold, Graham said. The property is adjacent to Erwin Park, an established park in north McKinney directly to the east of the site. City Attorney Mark Houser noted a similar easement in the Erwin Park area was also acquired as part of the planning for the bypass project.
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