The overview
League City City Council voted unanimously to transfer the highway easement, also known as Parcel 315, to TxDOT for a sum of nearly $319,000, according to city documents.
The land, which is part of a larger 17-acre parcel of land, is currently used as a detention pond for the Bay Colony Northpointe subdivision.
Because the highway will be built directly over a detention pond, TxDOT and the city negotiated a memorandum of agreement to ensure the city’s drainage is not compromised.
The memorandum dictates that the project can’t impair the pond's functionality, with a strictly allowed maximum net loss of 0.035 acre-feet of storage volume, according to city documents.
The backstory
Conceptualized in the early 1960s, the Grand Parkway is a proposed 180-mile circumferential highway that travels around the Greater Houston metro, according to previous reporting by Community Impact.
The expansion project will extend the highway 14 miles from FM 646 in League City to south of FM 2403 in Alvin, TxDOT documents show.
The project, titled “Section B-1,” is slated to start construction in 2027, according to previous reporting.
