While still in draft form, Manvel's new comprehensive and major thoroughfare plan was presented to City Council at its Oct. 6 meeting .

Houston-based planning firm Kendig Keast Collaborative gave the presentation.

It focuses on transportation, which includes ideas to change how different roadways are used, as well as land use and community character, which outlines a framework for rural preservation, estate residential, suburban residential, master-planned development, commercial and industrial throughout the city.

What’s happening?

On the transportation side, the presentation by Kendig Keast President and project manager Gary Mitchell sectioned Hwy. 288 as a limited-access highway, and Hwy. 6 as the primary roadway to move traffic in and out of the city, otherwise known as the s

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