Interestingly, some of the best examples of walkable urbanism in greater Houston are in the suburbs. In the Woodlands Town Center, for example, a vast network of trails seamlessly integrates homes with shops, restaurants and offices.
“The roadways had right of way all the way planned into it,” Tough said. “All of the arteries in the roadway had been planned, and it would fit that estimated [population] amount [150,000]. It was always planned to be a denser demographic development.”
At its last meeting of the year, The Woodlands Township Board of Directors authorized a grant of $25,000 to the Bayou Land Conservancy for the Spring Creek Greenway and $72,000 to hire PGAL for a preliminary analysis of the planned transportation center and parking garage.
A Woodlands task force has endorsed a plan that members said could connect one-third of family residences in the community through a 13-mile bicycle and hiking trail.
“There’s a large swath of the community that would be able to take advantage of facilities like this,” Cade said. “It’s not a bicycle plan—it’s a pedestrian, runner and bicycle plan.”
The $500,000 South County Mobility Study, which was conducted by the Houston-Galveston Area Council over nearly two years and funded in partnership by local entities and the federal government, identified $207 million worth of projects that it deemed critical to mobility to be implemented by 2020.
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