Hornbeck said:
tbone94 said:
I support your viewpoint and appreciate you standing up for citizens the way you do! Please save Pebble Creek!
Bob was pretty vocal at the Council meeting where this was discussed. I don't see him flip flopping on this.
The mayor on the other hand, seemed very reluctant to agree to not punching it through.
The City Manager, who just got a raise, pretty much does what he wants. Some folks on council let this happen, and continue to enable it, IMHO.
You are entirely correct. A few points to note. They will try and push it through under the guise of public safety. Woods had previously directed both the Chief of Police and the Fire Chief to produce statistics and GIS data showing the need for this cut through. Both of those chiefs presented data to council that was inaccurate and designed to misrepresent. Yancy pushed back against the Fire Chief with actual times from his own driving of those routes without rebuttal.
They will also cite cost, saying that the lakeway route will
Cost the city millions more than a developer extending pebble creek parkway. Their own transportation planners have stated that the road is not nearly wide enough in parts and they have not publicly discussed the costs of potential eminent domain and seizing land from homeowners as well as the golf course in certain parts.
I encourage folks to speak to local police officers and firefighters to hear their actual opinions on these issues not the sanitized versions of their dept heads & management.
Both the city of Bryan and CS are having internal turmoil currently. Bryan Fire has been quite vocal on social media while College Station, both PD & FD, have not. They are both facing similar issues though, the parkway issue is but a symptom of a much larger problem, and that is bad faith management and a lame council. KBTX doesn't really cover the issues until they are snubbed as can be seen by this last Bryan council meeting when their PR person cut them off from asking the Fire Chief any questions.
