Maybe the developer should pay for it
The city decided against annexing and rezoning a sensitive part of the Edwards Aquifer. So the city won’t build a transit center or a library in the area. And while the developer will be able to start part of his project, he won’t be able to do the rest without the Marshall Road extension. Yet, it seems that the extension is needed.
And the extension of Marshall Road is imperative, he said, to help alleviate traffic congestion in the area — something that’s only getting worse.
Unfortunately, we’re at the point where any new road is likely to increase congestion rather than reduce it. But I’m wondering why the city couldn’t have done the deal without building the library and transit center or rezoning. Was the rezoning for the purpose of the developer’s projects or the city’s? In other words, if the area wasn’t rezoned, the developer, regardless of the Marshall Road extension wouldn’t have been able to build the northern part of his project?
The problem seems to be that we can’t build a new road to handle congestion since it would only allow new development which would increase the number of cars in the area and thus cancel out any reduced congestion. So how do you put the genie back in the bottle?
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