No, you can't have her
Well said.EliteElectric said:
All of us who work with the two cities regularly, know that one is far better to work with than the other. Continuous poor leadership and bad budget decisions has left CoCS in a long drawn out bind. If it weren't for the big school CS would have dried up and blown away years ago, they exist in spite of themselves not because of themselves. As a business and property owner in both cities I want the best for both, 2 cities one community, but CoCS needs an influx of youth and ingenuity for that to happen and I am afraid that isn't on the agenda anytime soon.
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The College Station city council is being asked to consider a change in the route of a proposed sewer line through a south Bryan neighborhood.
The agenda for Thursday's College Station council meeting includes spending another $87,000 dollars for additional design work.
That would move the sewer trunkline to the backlots of North Rosemary Drive, next to Pin Oak Creek.
Roxie146 said:
True but there is already a BTU electric easement as well as a Bryan sewer line along the creek behind these houses.
So wouldn't it make sense to allow a split of service - let Bryan do some of the needed capacity and send the rest up via a lift station to the existing line that is being abandoned -
So College Station would not need to spend any additional funds constructing a brand new line.
Rehab what they already have and keep it in College Station.
Snoodish said:
We don't need Houston lawyers to take up our fights…there are outstanding condemnation lawyers in Bryan who would love to crush College Station.
Roxie146 said:
Leave it to KBTX to not quite understand - Last night's coverage on the Rosemary sewer line debacle suggested that the Pin Oak Creek easement alternative was questionable due to possible flooding.
1. Bryan already has a sewer line in the same place - there have been no issues
2. The CoCS plan is to the have the main sewer line go down the gigantic utility easement east off of the bypass. It floods at one drop.
There seems to be an effort to "cloud" the discussion. Barriers where there are none.
Regardless of where the CoCS puts the line, if in Bryan it will have to abide by the terms of the easement agreement. Bryan can dictate terms here - and should.
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They already can not provide adequate infrastructure - water, sewer, other utilities to their tax paying citizens.
EliteElectric said:
All of us who work with the two cities regularly, know that one is far better to work with than the other. Continuous poor leadership and bad budget decisions has left CoCS in a long drawn out bind. If it weren't for the big school CS would have dried up and blown away years ago, they exist in spite of themselves not because of themselves. As a business and property owner in both cities I want the best for both, 2 cities one community, but CoCS needs an influx of youth and ingenuity for that to happen and I am afraid that isn't on the agenda anytime soon.
AggieBaseball06 said:EliteElectric said:
All of us who work with the two cities regularly, know that one is far better to work with than the other. Continuous poor leadership and bad budget decisions has left CoCS in a long drawn out bind. If it weren't for the big school CS would have dried up and blown away years ago, they exist in spite of themselves not because of themselves. As a business and property owner in both cities I want the best for both, 2 cities one community, but CoCS needs an influx of youth and ingenuity for that to happen and I am afraid that isn't on the agenda anytime soon.
This is one of the most accurate things ever said on TexAgs.
CoB doesn't always get it right but at least it feels like they are always trying. City leadership supports their businesses and, especially recently, appears to be trying to actively improve their city.
CoCS seems to almost have an adversarial relationship with its citizens and businesses.
I heard it was following an existing right of way instead of creating a new one through eminent domain.FlyRod said:
Did I hear correctly that the new plan is to not have the line go through the "fancy folks" hood near Rosemary but relocate it to where us "po folks" reside?
If true, I am as un-shocked as it's possible to be.
I think the new sewer line is still needed regardless of whether more high rises are built or not.Roxie146 said:
The Inwood/Vine neighbors have identified continuous flood issues with Pin Oak Creek and are justifiably concerned about anything that happens in that area.
With all the proposed development that may happen up stream of Pin Oak Creek, everyone on both sides of the creek needs to raise concerns to CoCS,TAMUS and CoB -
South Rosemary floods every time it rains hard because of the up stream drainage from Chimney Hill and all the development from the old Albertsons area.
These are the unforeseen and unplanned consequences of uncontrolled growth. You just can not say yes to everyone - every development, every high/midrise.
Do we as a community want nothing but steel and concrete to look at? The sterile manicured look everywhere?
I don't want to live in New York City.
threecatcorner said:
For those who haven't seen the latest yet: https://www.kbtx.com/2023/03/20/bryan-residents-continue-learning-about-college-station-sewer-line-options/