What you need to know
League City City Council voted unanimously at its Oct. 21 meeting to approve the 2024 Master Mobility Plan, a 115-page document outlining steps for improving the city’s transportation systems for drivers in the city while also preserving existing street infrastructure.
The city updates its mobility plan every five years, and began preparing the 2024 plan in February 2023, according to city documents.
League City is expected to double in population within the next 10 to 15 years, according to the city’s website. Meanwhile, nearly 40% of the city’s land is undeveloped, with the majority of the land being on League City’s west side.
A closer look
The plan includes more than 70 street projects the city hopes to purse over the next five, 10 and 15 years, including:
- Bay Area Boulevard
- Columbia Memorial Parkway
- League City Parkway
- FM 270, or Egret Bay Boulevard
- FM 518, or Main Street
- Maple Leaf Drive
- Hobbs Road
What they’re saying
Council member Tommy Cones asked city staff if the plan would recommend any development on Main Street, or FM 518.
Christopher Sims, executive director of development services, said that the plan showed that Main Street would need to be expanded to six lanes in the future.
According to the plan, respondents saw the corridor on Main Street between Bay Area Boulevard and Landing Boulevard, near Clear Springs High School, as potentially hazardous to students walking to or from school.
“It is not shown in our capital recovery fees as a near-term project; it’s still a long-range project,” Sims said.
