College Station City Council unanimously voted Aug. 27 to amend the city's Comprehensive Plan to remove the bike lanes and sidewalks from the planned Spring Creek Trail due to conflicts with a planned midtown ball park development.
In a nutshell
According to the 2025-26 Capital Improvement Plan, the Spring Creek Trail project was created to extend the current 10-foot trail in the Spring Creek Greenway development. In 2024, the Bicycle, Pedestrian and Greenways Advisory Board ranked it as the seventh-highest priority for unfunded projects.
The $470,000 project will now be amended for the proposed 90-acre baseball and softball complex in midtown College Station. As previously reported by Community Impact, the city anticipates the complex will bring in up to $30 million in revenue and generate 60,000 hotel room bookings each year.
What council members are saying
At the Aug. 27 College Station City Council meeting, Transportation Planning Administrator Jason Schubert said the amendment would include removing bike lanes and sidewalks, along with realignment of the proposed shared-use path so residents wouldn’t have to use another pedestrian bridge. Schubert also said the Planning and Zoning Commission approved the recommendation unanimously because of traffic concerns.
Council member Bob Yancy asked to clarify whether the trails will still connect. Schubert explained they will still connect to internal and external streets. Council member Scott Shafer, who is also a professor of parks and recreation, said the area will also have good access for pedestrians and bike riders.
The council voted unanimously to approve the ordinance, with the official amendment to the plan to take place later on.
