{"id":73596,"date":"2025-12-02T23:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73596\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:59:12","slug":"richardson-bond-could-include-up-to-115-million-in-road-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/73596\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson bond could include up to $115 million in road projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRichardson<\/a> voters could see up to $115 million for street and alley construction projects included in the city\u2019s 2026 bond package.<\/p>\n

City Council<\/a> continued the process of refining the potential $200 million bond<\/a> package Dec. 1<\/a>, discussing potential street, alley and sidewalk projects that could be included.<\/p>\n

The big picture<\/p>\n

Street projects funded by the city\u2019s bond would be primarily made up of reconstruction projects that flagged as needing repairs in the city\u2019s latest pavement analysis but were left off of the 2021 bond program due to funding constraints, Assistant City Manager Charles Goff said.<\/p>\n

City staff presented various options for the streets and alleys proposition, ranging from $90 million-$115 million. All options included reconstruction projects on the following roads:<\/p>\n

Apollo RoadCanyon Creek PlazaDeep Valley DriveHidden DriveLittle Creek DriveMaple StreetMartha ManorMelrose DriveMimosa DrivePresidential DriveRidgehaven PlaceRoyal Crest DriveWaterview DriveAdditional recommended roads for reconstruction depending on the proposition\u2019s size include South Weatherred Drive and Tiffany Trail. Staff also recommended funding construction on 13-16 alley segments.<\/p>\n

Diving in deeper<\/p>\n

Council also discussed potentially including funding for street rehabilitation projects that don\u2019t require full reconstruction, something the city has not done in the past.<\/p>\n

Doing so would direct $20 million-$25 million of the proposition to various concrete panel replacement projects around the city, freeing up \u201croughly $2 million\u201d from the city\u2019s Street Rehabilitation Fund, Goff said.<\/p>\n

The additional funding could be used for more concrete replacements, more asphalt overlays, more neighborhood street rehabilitations or additional funding for existing asphalt replacement projects, according to a staff presentation. Council would allocate that funding during future budget discussions.<\/p>\n

What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n

Mayor Pro Tem Ken Hutchenrider expressed concern that the city would not be able to keep up with road construction needs as costs increase into the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worry that we\u2019re trying to catch our tail, and our tail is getting further and further away from us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of pressure about things we need to do in the city, and yet streets and alleys are gobbling up a huge component of our bond programs. … We\u2019re putting a lot of money towards it, and every time it feels like the map is shrinking as to how much we\u2019re actually accomplishing.\u201d<\/p>\n

City Manager Don Magner said the city has seen a \u201cdisproportionate amount of need\u201d for road projects arise in the last decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen folks asked if we\u2019re catching up, my answer was always, \u2018No, but we\u2019re not falling behind at the same rate,\u2019\u201d Magner said. \u201cTo truly catch up, we would probably spend $200 million per bond program on roads. Streets probably weren\u2019t prioritized the way they should have been when our streets started hitting the 25-to-30-year mark, and now what we\u2019re left with is 60% of our streets being 40 years old, and the water and sewer lines are also that old.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richardson\u2019s 2010 and 2015 bond programs funded about $20 million and $30 million, respectively, in streets and alley projects. That number jumped to $93.1 million in 2021.<\/p>\n

Another thing<\/p>\n

Goff also presented staff recommendations on sidewalk projects to include in the 2026 bond package, which would total $10.5 million for sidewalk rehabilitation projects and $4.5 million to fill gaps in Richardson sidewalk network.<\/p>\n

Goff added that the city has around 43 miles of sidewalk gaps. Mayor Amir Omar said he would want to see a larger focus on filling the gaps represented in the proposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe repair work is navigable where the gap oftentimes is not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next<\/p>\n

Council will hear one more staff presentation on potential facilities projects Dec. 8 before refining the bond propositions in January.<\/p>\n

Council will decide whether or not to call a bond election Feb. 9, according to the presentation, and election day is May 2.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richardson voters could see up to $115 million for street and alley construction projects included in the city\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[15213,1494,160,162,161,959,3174,838],"class_list":{"0":"post-73596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-2026-bond","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-plano","11":"tag-plano-headlines","12":"tag-plano-news","13":"tag-richardson","14":"tag-road","15":"tag-streets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}