Clyde Melick Quotations

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 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.

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.

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

We're doing the official county road map and this is the second phase. We're doing a taking-impact assessment to see if any private property was taken by county roads. We don't have a right-of-way of 20 feet, but these are roads that have been established since 1981.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.