While bond-funded upgrades continue on several Shavano Park city streets, local leaders are planning for more infrastructure fixes in other parts of town.

The background

Chris Otto, geographic discipline leader for Colliers Engineering and Design, briefed City Council on Feb. 26 on the city’s ongoing series of road improvements in the older neighborhoods that buffer Northwest Military Highway.

Otto said project contractors have recently finished reconstruction work on the streets of Wagon Trail, End Gate, Shavano Drive, Chimney Rock, and the 300 block of Fawn Drive.

He also said the contractors recently completed installing curbs and a first layer of asphalt in the 100 and 200 blocks of Fawn Drive, and are installing curbing on Windmill Road. Additionally, contractors are excavating Bent Oak Drive.


Otto said the project crew also recently finished relocating water lines at the Turkey Creek cul-de-sac, and will soon complete relocating water utilities at cul-de-sacs on Honey Bee Lane, Hunters Branch St. and Hunters Branch St. South. The water infrastructure relocations are part of the cul-de-sac reconstruction measures that are also supported by the city’s street bond.

Dig deeper

Otto said he and his colleagues are nearly done engineering planned improvements in Shavano Park’s portion of De Zavala Road, which is part of the city’s road bond project.

Otto said an environmental study and final construction plans for De Zavala Road are on hold until federal officials approve a $4 million federal grant agreement that will help to support the project.


Fixing the road surface and drainage and adding sidewalks on Shavano Park’s side of De Zavala is estimated to cost about $3 million, city officials said.

Local officials are now working with Freeland-Turk Engineering to assess the condition of roads in other neighborhoods west of Northwest Military Highway and looking to use the remaining $1 million in federal grant money to fund street improvements in these areas.
Tom Turk, principal of Spring Branch, Texas-based Freeland Turk Engineering Group, offered council a preliminary list of potential candidate streets for improvements:
  • Post Oak Way from Lockhill-Selma Road to Cinnamon Oak
  • Cinnamon Oak from Huebner Road to Post Oak Way
  • Post Oak Way from Blackjack Oak to Durand Oak
  • Cinnamon Oak from Trinity Oak to Princeton Oak
  • Elm Spring Lane from Northwest Military Highway to Bikeway Lane
  • Turkey Creek Road at Honey Bee Lane
  • Arrow Mound Lane
What's next

Turk recommended rebuilding two of the candidate roads and provided preliminary cost estimates:
  • Post Oak Way from Lockhill-Selma Road to Cinnamon Oak: $403,125
  • Cinnamon Oak from Huebner Road to Post Oak Way: $627,083
Turk said Post Oak Way and Cinnamon Oak are strongly recommended for improvements because they are both city limit entrances that sit near Huebner Road, and are frequently used by motorists, including those cutting through town to avoid area road work.

“With closures on Loop 1604, we have a lot of people cutting through here. Huebner [Road] is a major thoroughfare right now,” council member Buddy Aleman said.


Turk said his team will continue to look at potential repair methods and cost estimates for a next phase of envisioned road improvements.