Clyde Melick Quotations

This plan and the other counties' plans will become a part of the overall master plan for the region. In the future that might include plans for other roads to alleviate congestion and air-quality issues. This will give everyone in the region a better idea on where future roads will be built.

I don't know if the Red Oak numbers include their annexation to Interstate 45 or not. The annexation is currently being challenged in court so that number could change.

We're here today to hear any final protests to these final 31 roads. The commissioners are not here to take any action, only hear any complaints. You then have 90 days to accept the final roadmap for the county.

We're looking for input from the public on our thoroughfare plan. We're consolidating each city's plan with ours and then using data and information from the Texas Department of Transportation to create traffic models for county roads.

We're redoing a process that has been done before. It's an issue that hasn't been fixed. We built a 47,000-square-foot building that was torn down.

This clarifies the existing status of many roads around the county. We completed roughly 99 percent of the roads last year and this is the final list given by the commissioners.

I think there's some confusion when everyone's using terminology interchangeably. I keep hearing 'central business district', 'downtown' and 'square' being interchanged.

We hope to have a good idea of where the county needs future infrastructure after we finish this plan. I don't expect many changes in the update but these meetings will help us determine that.

By knowing where we plan to build in the future we'll be able to restrict building on land that will be needed for future roadways.

These are just projections but I believe they're pretty close to accurate. I estimated we were near 136,000. So I would say their numbers are pretty close. But nothing is official until the next census in 2010.