Prosper Town Council members discussed updating an eight year old ordinance regarding where the town’s no-through truck routes are located during an Oct. 24 work session meeting.
The gist
Updating the routes would help Prosper handle the amount of traffic it's seeing as the area and surrounding infrastructure continues to grow and change, according to a meeting presentation.
“North Central Texas is booming,” Police Chief Douglas Kowalski said.
The last time Prosper’s no-through routes were updated was with a 2015 ordinance, Kowalski said.
“I don’t know if [you all] have realized, but things looked a lot different back in 2015,” he said.
For example, Lovers Lane and the Gates of Prosper shopping center had not been built yet and are now seeing a lot of trucks, Kowalski said.
Keep in mind
The only way to update the routes would be with a new ordinance replacing the 2015 update, Kowalski said.
Local deliveries would not be affected by any changes, just the larger commercial trucks passing through town, Kowalski said.
One potential concern with any new routes is trucks could be diverted closer to schools and their younger drivers.
“The school district was concerned about mixing big trucks in with 'just learning' traffic drivers,” Kowalski said.
Stay tuned
Council members are expected to discuss no-through routes again at a future meeting before any official decision is made.
