HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 85-01 THE CITY OF THE COLONY
RESOLUTION # 85-01
WHEREAS, State Highway 121 between McKinney, Texas, and Dallas-Fort Worth
Airport is the primary city-to-city and city-to-airport highway £or many citizens of Collin
and Denton Counties; and
WHEREAS, severely congested current traffic requires improvements to provide
immediate relief; and
WHEREAS~ significantly expanded traffic projections for State Highway 121
demonstrate an urgent need to designate the route as a controlled access freeway facility;
and
WHEREAS, development of State Highway 121 as a freeway will require an
alignment which bypasses congested areas of Lewisville, Texas; and
WHEREAS~ impending development along State Highway 121 and in the vicinity of
Lewisville requires that swi£t, decisive action be taken to protect the right-of-way and
provide for rapidly increasing traffic; and
WHEREAS~ landowners along State Highway 121 have promised to donate
significant amounts of right-of-way:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that The City of The Colony requests the
Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation to
A. Give highest priority to the four-lane and six-lane improvements along the
current alignment of State Highway 121, as already included in Category 3 of
the ten (10) year Project Development Plan adopted by the Texas Highway
Commission on November 20, 19g#.
B. Immediately designate State Highway 121 between McKinney, Texas, and
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport as a controlled access freeway facility with an
alignment bypassing congested areas of Lewisville, Texas;
C. Immediately authorize and carry out right-of-way acquisition to protect future
development of such control]ed access facility; and
D. Immediately authorize and fund design and construction of a four-lane interim
roadway along the bypass route, and from State Highway 289 to U.S. 75.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of The Colony, Denton
County, Texas, on this the _~ day of January, 1985.
ATTEST:
Jane~d, City Secretary