Throughout the year, Precinct 3 leadership took on several projects planned by the previous Precinct 4 staff, set up four new road and bridge maintenance camps, including one in Cypress, and sought to improve service request response time for local residents.
“We vetted every project we inherited from Precinct 4, which are now [in] Precinct 3, and we think we have made them even better. I think they were all good, and we made them great,” Ramsey told Community Impact. “Whatever projects that we left to the new Precinct 4, we’ve been good stewards of following up and trying to close out any design details that we had.”
Part of an effort to construct the remaining two lanes of the Greenhouse Road four-lane concrete boulevard from north of West Road toward Hwy. 290 wrapped up in 2022, and work will continue through the first quarter of 2023. The comprehensive project cost more than $9.2 million, according to Precinct 3.
Several other Cy-Fair projects are slated to break ground this year, including a $7.5 million project to widen the two-lane asphalt Cypress North Houston Road to a four-lane concrete boulevard from Perry Road to Jones Road.
The next phase of a long-term project to widen Telge Road from Louetta to the Grand Parkway will pick up again this year and continue over four phases through 2025, Ramsey said. The project was previously in Precinct 4, and previous leadership completed Phase 1 from Spring Cypress Road to Louetta Road in 2019.
Additionally, a two-phase plan to widen Schiel Road from Mason Road to the Grand Parkway will be a $9 million effort in total and is slated to wrap up in the third quarter of 2023. Another project planned for North Eldridge Parkway will widen the portion from Pine Drive to Lakewood Meadow Drive this year.
Connectivity to major thoroughfares such as Hwy. 290 and the Grand Parkway is one of the many factors considered in the county’s road planning process, as Ramsey said he expects Precinct 3’s population to grow more than any other part of the county in the next 10 years. Other factors include traffic counts, plat reviews, safety reports, traffic impact assessments, pavement conditions and other roadway maintenance needs.
“Our two biggest infrastructure issues in Precinct 3 are traffic and drainage. A road project is where you see those two come together,” Ramsey said. “Any major road project is also a major drainage project. Our objective is when we complete a road project, the drainage in and around that road has improved.”
