Woodlands Board Sets Aside $2 million to Create Road and Bridge Fund

THE WOODLANDS, TX — The Woodlands Township Board of Directors recently voted to set aside $2 million to create a road and bridge fund.

City hall watchers are seeing this as a further sign that The Woodlands board is planning for incorporation.

Regardless of when The Woodlands moves forward with incorporation, the board can spend up to $150,000 of the $2 million can be used to fund an engineering study to evaluate roadways in The Woodlands.

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The perennial question of whether The Woodlands should incorporate as its own city is once again up for debate, as it has been every year since 2014 when the community first became eligible for incorporation.

Incorporation would give The Woodlands the ability to set its own property tax rate, as well as more direct control of spending, but it would also mean taking on the full cost of maintenance and operations of the hundreds of miles of roads that snake through the area.

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