2.24.26. Is he the only council member that does these? Is this a good thing or unusual for a single member to do this. This is his 2nd one that I know of.

Local media usually hosts them closer to the election.

It's not an election townhall. It's a gathering of people who want to ask questions and discuss with one of the current council people. David won in 24 and is there until 28 so he's doing this to simply just meet with the people he represents. He brought City manager, Bryan Woods, and when I stepped away they were fielding questions about pebble creek parkway.

https://www.kbtx.com/2026/02/25/college-station-town-hall-brings-an-opportunity-residents-ask-questions/

I really don't see the issue of having a fire sale to get rid of Macys - the money is already spent, it's gone, why does the city continue to hold on to this property and pay continual fees while losing tax revenue?

They have no plan and never did. Just get rid of it.

Macy's will be a large part of the Harvey redevelopment corridor. Sold at a loss but will be sold a key reason for the new corridor's success.

No one has done more for the issue of Pebble Creek Parkway than David. He is sincerely trying to resolve citizen concerns. I share those concerns too.

The problem with making PC Parkway a straight shot south can best be described by looking at Victoria Avenue. Victoria is too long of a straight shot road, and it gives rise to speeding. My in laws backyard backs up to Victoria, and two cars have crashed through their fence and ended up in their backyard in less than a year.

PC Parkway, if you don't live there, is heavily used by pedestrians and bordered on either side by wrought iron and stone fence. In the road's current configuration (only two lanes and divided by earthen median) somehow people leave that roadway and crash into that fence about every 6 months or so. There's twisted iron and scattered stone that lays there until repairs are affected and serve as a visual and scary reminder for the high number of folks that walk by daily of the propensity for crashes.

There's two golf cart path crossings that literally tens of thousands of folks cross annually in golf carts and course maintenance vehicles- back and forth all day, every day. Even Monday when the course is closed, maintenance vehicles are often out in force. Tractors, buggies, and lawn mowers of all types cross it.

The original plan, which I like to think David and I had a hand in changing, was to make PC Parkway a sizeable thoroughfare with 4 lanes. That would've been a safety nightmare. Not an exaggeration. For example, carts have to wait to cross most times. Many drivers are courteous and stop to allow golf cart crossings. With a second lane, you'd be adding a blind lane. As one courteous driver slowed to allow a crossing, the driver in the blind lane wouldn't see the golf cart and the golf cart driver wouldn't see them, either. Accidents would happen. The only way to address it would be a tunnel under, or a bridge over the parkway in two locations. Thankfully, it looks like the 4 lane matter has been stricken from the plan and now won't happen.

Now that the 4 lane matter has been resolved, the remaining issue is connectivity. Should it connect, and how?

Council decided, in plain English despite our current revisitation of the issue, that it would be pedestrian and emergency vehicles only. While some want to revise the history of direction council gave to staff and convince otherwise, the minutes, the meeting video, and simple recollection offer ample proof that we HAD a solution, and Councilman White was instrumental in pushing it through. Staff were directed to give us "pedestrian and emergency vehicle only" options for connecting these two neighborhoods.

Now, objectively that MAY have been a mistake, depending upon your point of view, but it's the direction we gave.

The Traffic Impact Analysis (TIA) indicates, somewhat ironically, that it will be PC residents that would actually utilize the road the most as they take a convenient route to what I'll call the future "Lakeway Commercial District." It'll be a smaller version of Tower Point, but on the opposite side of Highway 6. The Pebble side. Once Lakeway is extended beyond its current dead end (in the Business Park) that commercial development will most likely start in earnest.

As one member of council, my opinion is that the Lakeway area will develop LONG before houses ever get built all the way up to the end of Pebble Creek Parkway (circa 2040, maybe?)

So why not just follow through with council direction for pedestrian and emergency access only? The answer is "money." The developer isn't going to spend millions to build a bridged road over floodplain that only fire trucks can use. The city doesn't want to, either. (Albeit I thought our coveted impact fees were designed for just such occurrences…but I digress, and somewhat sarcastically.)

From the beginning, I've maintained that some form of connectivity is probably warranted, but must be mitigated. We cannot put a makeshift highway through Pebble Creek, only for construction trucks to drive through there daily and repeatedly, on their way to the new subdivision and Southern Pointe as they build out. That's asking for trouble.

I believe our options are A) what we've already directed or B) a well designed 3 spur roundabout that demarcates the two neighborhoods, as pictured) or C) some combination of the two.

If the spur roads off the roundabout went east to Rock Prairie and West to Lakeway, you have the makings of a logical, neighborhood friendly light transportation corridor that lends itself to calm connectivity, public safety, and neighborhood integrity.

My $.02

Respectfully

Yancy '95

EliteElectric said:

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Let's also not forget there are TONS of families that drive their personal golf carts up to the club for golf, tennis, meals, pools, workouts and other types of kids stuff every day. I don't live in PC but am there at least once a week, and, in my opinion, it's dirty pool to take a golf cart community that people have enjoyed as such for decades and turn it into Texas avenue effectively diminishing the value and allure of that community.


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I absolutely LOVE seeing little kids riding with mom/dad/grandma/grandpa up to the club for dinner or to play with the other kids in the afternoon/evening. Love it. If there is a more wholesome thing in town I am not aware of it

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Here here.

I have no trust in the current CS officials, specifically the leaders -- City Manager Woods and Mayor Nichols. Yancy and White are definitely keepers, but all the other elected councilmembers are definitely suspect. I will be out in full force the next election cycle. That's the only way to fix this city government.

This is the main issue - TRUST

Secondarily, leadership.

"Public" Works building with no public *vote*
Empty former Police Station
Macy's
Rosemary Sewer Line
Northgate parking lot
Datacenter / NDAs
ETJ lawsuit
No more than four being struck down
Utility payment transfers / PUC lawsuit
Chimney Hill
etc., etc.

What's sad, is that most of the time, it takes an open records request to uncover these shenanigans.

The city gave each employee a "transparency trailblazer" challenge coin for 2026. One of my friends gave me his because he said I did a lot more for transparency in CoCS government than he did in 2025, and gave it to me as a momento of the datacenter fight.

The city is anything but transparent,

Those are all just symptoms of the problem.