With the approval of its nearly $208,000 contract during a Jan. 18 Sugar Land City Council meeting, TEI, which has worked with the city of Sugar Land over the last year and a half to complete Phase 1 of the mobility plan, will look to perform several roles over the next several months and beyond, according to a Jan. 18 agenda report.
TEI and the city of Sugar Land will continue to tackle the Mobility Master Plan, which provides a framework for the city that focuses on moving people and goods; providing residents, visitors, and tourists with multiple transportation options to choose from within the city; providing citywide guidance for all modes of transportation; and creating a separate planning process to focus on specific areas and mobility programs.
The new master plan will also combine existing mobility plans.
“What we’re doing is taking our existing mobility plans—the PedBike Master Plan, the Master Thoroughfare Plan and [the] Comprehensive Mobility Plan—and integrating them into one plan that is going to focus on all of those modes,” said Monique Johnson, the city of Sugar Land's transportation and mobility innovation manager, during the Jan. 18 meeting.
During Phase 2, besides providing a framework for the city of Sugar Land that will help it implement the goals set in the mobility plan, TEI will complete the city’s Transformative Mobility Network, a map identifying the priority corridors over the next 10 years, including major roadways, arterials and local routes the city maintains and manages, Johnson said. TEI completed a draft of that network during the first phase of the project and will work alongside Sugar Land stakeholders such as the citizen Mobility Task Force, the Texas Department of Transportation, the Union Pacific Corp. and the general public.
In addition, as part of Phase 2, TEI will continue to help manage stakeholder engagement sessions from February-April, a late summer Mobility Summit public event and a joint planning and zoning-City Council workshop in the fall. By late 2022, the goal is to have a draft plan ready for public comment, Johnson said.
