Infrastructure and Growth Committee Meeting - May 12, 2026
Infrastructure and Growth Committee Meeting - May 12, 2026
The Infrastructure and Growth Committee met on May 12, 2026, to receive briefings on the TexDOT Fort Worth District Master Transportation Plan, the City of Fort Worth's first Master Transportation Plan, and the Stormwater Strategic Plan. The meeting was called to order at 12:35 PM and a procedural motion was approved. No public comments were heard. Committee members asked questions and provided feedback on each briefing.
Discussion Items
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TexDOT Fort Worth District Master Transportation Plan: John Corday, Deputy District Engineer, presented an update on the district's first master plan covering nine counties and 91 cities. He highlighted population growth projections, increasing congestion (700 miles congested now to ~4,000 miles by 2050 if no action), and a funding gap of nearly $18 billion for 50+ future projects. The plan is data-driven and involves a steering committee chaired by Mayor Parker. Councilman Crane raised concerns about the 2871 corridor in District 3, noting rapid growth from data centers and developments, and urged creative funding solutions including federal grants for a railroad bridge crossing. Councilman Blaylock emphasized the need to complete improvements on 287 and 156 in northwest Tarrant County. Corday confirmed that 287 is a top priority and that construction plans are underway.
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City of Fort Worth Master Transportation Plan: Kelly Porter, Transportation and Public Works Director, presented the city's first comprehensive master transportation plan, unifying previous thoroughfare and active transportation plans. The plan includes 72 new roadway connections, a 10-year investment cycle, and a focus on safety, freight, technology, and project readiness. Over 33 public meetings and 1,100 survey responses informed the plan. The plan will be brought to City Council for adoption in June 2026. Council members praised the thoroughness. Councilman Blaylock noted that many improvements in District 5 may take time but expressed gratitude. The plan aligns with TexDOT's district plan and includes a top-10 project list for partnerships.
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Stormwater Strategic Plan: Jennifer Dyke, Assistant Director of Stormwater Management, and Matt Gailia from Freese and Nichols presented the strategic plan for the next 20 years. They summarized stakeholder engagement, including peer city comparisons, and identified "mature stewardship" as the guiding theme. The plan categorizes 28 services into levels of service, with feedback indicating general satisfaction but a need for moderate to aggressive increases in infrastructure maintenance and capital improvements. Councilwoman (unnamed) recommended increasing the priority of public education and communication, especially after the April 25 flooding event, and suggested revisiting the one-acre threshold for stormwater review of development projects. The team noted this feedback and will incorporate it into the resource strategy phase.
Key Outcomes
- The committee received all three briefings and provided direction on priorities. No formal votes or decisions were taken beyond the opening procedural motion.
- Council members identified specific corridor priorities (2871, 287, 156) and requested continued collaboration with TexDOT and federal grant opportunities.
- The stormwater team will consider increasing the service level for public education and re-evaluating development review thresholds as part of the strategic plan's next phase.
- The Master Transportation Plan is scheduled for City Council adoption on June 9, 2026.
Meeting Transcript
Good afternoon. It's twelve thirty five. I'm gonna call our infrastructure and growth committee meeting to order. Thank you. All right, all in favor. Great. Motion passes. We have three briefings. We're going to start with the update on Text. Master Plan and Kelly Porter is here and John Corday. Good afternoon, everyone. Not quite evening yet. I have John Corderi here with the TechSoup Fort Work District to provide you all an update on the Fort Worth District Master Plan. And just correct me for wrong, I believe the mayor is the chair of the stakeholder, one of the big stakeholder groups. The steering committee. And so TPW's also been serving as staff on this process over the last about 18 months or so. So have John here to talk about those efforts, and then I'll lend in some things from our master's distribution. Thank you, Kelly. Good afternoon again. I'm John Quartery, the deputy district engineer for the Techstone Fort Worth District. Thank you for the invitation to come speak to you today, as Kelly said to give you an update on our transportation master plan. First, just a little bit about uh Tech stop Fort Worth district. Well, we cover the nine counties and ninety-one cities on kind of the western side of the Metroplex, if you will. Uh, we're the third largest metro uh district in the state. Uh we have about nine percent of the daily miles traveled uh in the state. Uh about 90 a little under 9200 miles of uh on system roadways that we're responsible for, and a little over 4,000 bridges in those nine counties. So, why a master plan for transportation in the Fort Worth district? We are all experiencing growth and the pressures that it puts on our transportation system with uh that growth just projected to continue over the foreseeable future. So we really needed a strategy of how are we going to invest in that transportation system to uh provide the best reliability connectivity and the safe transportation system? So we have started what is the first in the state of a district doing a master plan on that district. Uh you may have seen other corridors statewide, 35 US 287, US 377, those were all statewide corridors. This is a plan just for the nine county Fort Worth district. So we wanted it to be very data-driven. Um so we have done a lot of data analysis and collection from demographics to freight to safety, uh, economic development. Um, we have gathered as much data and any type of subject that we could think of to help guide those decisions. Here's just some examples of uh that data that we've collected. I'm not gonna go into the details of the slides, uh, but just looking at the population increase uh projections, uh the employment here in the district, uh median household income. Usually that's a direct correlation to a higher income means more cars, more cars on the roadway puts more pressure on that transportation system, gross domestic product. What are the industries that are driving our economy in this Fort Worth district? We've done a lot of analysis on freight. What are those big trucks doing? Are they just passing through? Are they going from uh manufacturing here in the Metroplex to the other side of the Metroplex? What are those uh again pressures that freight is putting on our transportation system? We've done a lot of analysis on origin destination. Um, where folks coming in the mornings, where are they going to work, and what it's happening during the day. Here's just an example of um the increase from 2019 to 2023. You can see the the colors are starting to get darker in that interior core, but what you can really notice too is how it is spreading out west and north and south. Those people in the outer counties are all coming in to Terrant County for whatever reason, employment and putting pressures on those systems in the in the in Tarrant County. So we've done a lot of predictive analysis as well.
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