GRIMES COUNTY CITIZEN’S COMMITTEE OPPOSES TXDOT PROJECTS

  

A citizens committee, led by real estate broker Nancy Perry, is calling for landowners to oppose a Texas Department of Transportation’s proposed transmission lines and high speed rail line connecting Dallas to Houston slated to cross into the county.

Another one of the projects being opposed is a proposed toll road through the county.

A group named Grimes County Sub-regional Planning “391” Commission, whom Perry is citizen’s committee member, held her own meeting, asking landowners to take action to stop construction of outside projects that will be constructed throughout the county.

One of the projects being proposed and opposed by the committee is a 345 kV double circuit transmission line and a high speed rail project.

Perry’s group is attempting to get legal assistance to fight these projects, knowing that the other side already has powerful attorneys on their side.

Perry is trying to raise awareness of the projects, and has already offered $1000 of her own money, however, these projects have deadlines, and also says that the projects are already hurting property values.

CenterPoint Energy has told country residents that the project, named the Brazos Valley Connection Project, is needed since the demand from the Houston area will outgrow its capacity to provide power.

Grimes County was chosen for the project after the project was endorsed by ERCOT as part of a larger project to construct the 345 kV transmission line through Harris, Waller and Grimes County.

An exact route has yet to be determined.

A public meeting is slated for this Tuesday, December 2, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m at the Iola Community Center.

For more information on theBVCP project, visit brazosvalleyconnection.com, or call 1-800-416-9625

For more information on the high-speed rail project, visit DallasHoustonHSR.com, or call 844-541-1875.