Past Public Involvement
You Shaped Oak Hill Parkway
Public outreach during the environmental study phase included:
- 1 public hearing
- 6 open houses
- 7 virtual open houses
- Over 1,100 official comments received
- 14 issue specific workshops
- Over 80 stakeholder meetings
Your participation made significant improvements to the proposed project along US 290 and SH 71 through Oak Hill. Some of these improvements include:
- Building a design that addresses the traffic congestion in the corridor
- Building a design that separates through traffic from local traffic, providing both mobility and safety enhancements
- Limiting proposed elevation at the US 290/SH 71 intersection to one level instead of two levels above existing ground
- Building new facilities for bicyclists and pedestrians, including sidewalks and a shared-use path along the entire corridor
- Lowering the US 290 mainlanes underneath cross street overpasses at Circle Drive, Scenic Brook Road, RM 1826 and Convict Hill Road, and at the US 290/SH 71 intersection
- Looking to avoid or limit impacts to trees, especially the Grandmother Oak, Grandfather Oak and the Nieces Oaks in the vicinity of William Cannon Drive, and preserving the Beckett Grove Tree (formerly known as the Taco Bell Tree)
- Extending the improvements west of Circle Drive and reducing the proposed project’s footprint in that area
- Minimizing impacts to Williamson Creek, including in areas where bridges would be placed over Williamson Creek
- Adding natural treatments at Williamson Creek instead of a concrete culvert to channelize the waters; in fact, we are removing a significant amount of existing concrete out of the creek by building new bridges
- Realigning William Cannon Drive to avoid large trees
- Adding an upstream water detention pond
- Planning for water quality best management practices like grassy swales, sedimentation/sand filtration basins and bioretention ponds
- Improving access for businesses along SH 71 just north of US 290
- Improving safety at US 290 and Old Bee Caves Road
- Maintaining similar access of streets and neighborhoods to the frontage roads
- Adding Texas Turnaround U-turns to provide local access without sitting through a traffic light
- Adding transit bus stop locations
Community input had a meaningful impact on project design. We’d like to thank the community for your participation throughout the process. Together, we’ve identified a solution that not only addresses traffic congestion, but honors the heritage and community of Oak Hill. We look forward to continuing the dialogue through the construction phase of the project.
Oak Hill Parkway Past Public Events
The following is documentation of public outreach during the environmental study.
- Archived virtual meeting page
- Oak Hill Parkway Overview Presentation
- Presentation slides and transcript
- Fact Sheet
- Artistic rendering of the intersection of US 290 and SH 71, facing north
- Upcoming construction activity
- What to expect
- On the ground lookback
- Information about the contractor’s future wet concrete batch plant
- Current schematic
- Bicycle and pedestrian accommodations
- Responses to questions
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- Public Hearing Summary
- Public Hearing Handouts
- Public Hearing Presentation
- Public Hearing Exhibits - Process
- Public Hearing Exhibits - Final Evaluation Criteria
- Public Hearing Exhibits - Renderings
- Public Hearing Exhibits - Context Sensitive Solutions
- Build Alternative "A": Draft Schematic
- Build Alternative "A": Draft Profile
- Offsite Detention Ponds
- Build Alternative "A": Google Earth KMZ File
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- 3-D Visualization of What the Build Alternative Could Look Like
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- Meeting Summary and Comment / Response Report
- Community Survey Summary Report
- Handouts
- Welcome and Overview
- Evaluation Process-Overview
- Evaluation Process-Phase Three Update
- Evaluation Process-Previous Phases
- Build Alternative A
- Build Alternative C
- Artistic Renderings
- Context Sensitive Solutions
- Water Quality and Upstream Detention
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- Meeting Summary and Comment / Response Report
- Community Survey Summary Report
- Handouts
- Welcome and Overview
- Study and Analysis
- How Do We Decide if a Road gets Constructed?
- Artistic Renderings Build Alternative A
- Artistic Renderings Build Alternative C
- Draft Schematics Build Alternative A
- Draft Schematics Build Alternative C
- We Are Listening
- Context Sensitive Solutions
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- Meeting Summary
- Community Survey Results
- Welcome Letter and Virtual Open House Flyer
- Description of Mobility Concepts
- Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Gas Tax Facts
- Welcome and Project Overview
- Evaluation Criteria and Process
- Context Sensitive Solutions
- Next Steps
- Oak Hill Parkway Fact Sheet
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