CC Resolution No. 2602RESOLUTION NO. 2602
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, SUPPORTING THE RETENTION OF FUNDING CURRENTLY
IDENTIFIED FOR SEGMENTS B, C, D AND I-1 OF SH 99 (GRAND
PARKWAY) IN THE PROPOSED 2020 UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION
PROGRAM; MAKING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATED THERETO; AND
PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, regards the safety, security,
and quality of life as the highest priorities for its citizens; and
WHEREAS , the City Council recognizes the important work performed by the Texas
Department of Transportation to advance critical transportation improvements within the eight -
county metropolitan region and the State of Texas; and
WHEREAS, State Highway 99 (the Grand Parkway) provides critical connectivity to
emergency evacuation routes on its existing segments and is vital for future emergency
evacuation plans in Liberty, Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria and Fort Bend Counties; and
WHEREAS, existing segments of State Highway 99 have been instrumental to economic
growth along their corridors within the metropolitan region and the state and will provide both
critical relief to existing congestion and support continuing economic growth along metropolitan
routes for segments B, C, D and I-1; and
WHEREAS, State Highway 99 Segments B, C, D and I-1 will provide critical access for
goods moving from and to the manufacturing and ports of the I louston-Galveston region and an
alternative for trucks currently traversing many of the State's most congested roadway segments
on Interstate I-10, I-610, I-69 and 1-45; and
WHEREAS, State Highway 99 was first identified as a long-range priority transportation
investment in 1961 and specifically identified in the Houston -Galveston area's first Metropolitan
Transportation Plan in 1989 and in all subsequent metropolitan long-range plans; and
WHEREAS, State Highway 99 was identified as a tolled facility in the 2025 Regional
Transportation Plan approved in June 2005; and
WHEREAS, the Texas Department of Transportation and the counties of Brazoria,
Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, and Montgomery entered into a Market
Valuation Waiver Agreement in 2009 that defined the scope of the Grand Parkway (SI199),
which itself had been approved in 2008; and
WHEREAS, completion of the remaining segments of the Grand Parkway is important
and necessary for the region as an evacuation route, for the daily mobility its citizens, as essential
means to reduce traffic congestion and the safe and efficient movement of goods; and
WHEREAS, planned construction or improvement of Segments B, C, D and I 1 of the
Grand Parkway have been proposed for removal in the Draft 2020 Unified Transportation
Program which will halt work by the Texas Department of Transportation of the development or
implementation of these vital transportation improvements; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, hereby supports the
retention of funding for Segments B, C, D, and I-1 of SH 99 (Grand Parkway) in the proposed 2020
Unified Transportation Program for the reasons enumerated in the recitals hereinabove.
Section 2: This resolution shall take effect immediately from and after its passage by
the City Council of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED, by the affirmative vote of the City Council of the
City of Baytown this the 8th day of August, 2019.
B ANDON CAPETILLO, Ma r
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LETICIA BRYSCH, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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NACIO RAMIREZ, S ity Attorney
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