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In the last five years, Fulshear has grown at a 252% rate, according to five-year estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
As the city grows, Fulshear has completed or is undergoing several downtown street projects and could soon bring up a new idea: one-way pairings.
What it means
Instead of widening Main and Harris streets, which may require acquiring and tearing down existing buildings, the city would make each a one-way, with Wallis Street designated as a “release valve,” City Manager Zach Goodlander said.
“If you have a very wide road, a major artery in downtown like that, it just means you’re going to have higher speed traffic, more traffic on just one particular road,” Goodlander said.
Goodlander cited Rosenberg and Conroe—where the downtowns are split by Hwy. 90A and US 105, respectively—as Houston-area cities that already employ the pairing systems.
Going forward
While the city continues to develop, Tommy Kuykendall, the Economic Development Corp.'s B-board president, said it’s important to keep the city's “small town feeling.”
“People probably moved to Fulshear because of how it felt when you were here,” Kuykendall said. “In the old days, you would always have the same few people that were either on City Council or serving on the boards.”
As the city continues to grow, “new blood” has entered those spaces, and people no longer all know each other, Kuykendall said.
But it’s not all bad, he said. With a growing city comes an increased opportunity for business development as well as a potential move to downtown for City Hall.
