The Woodcreek City Council meeting on October 8, 2025 included an agenda item to consider action on a Feasibility Study for Pedestrian Mobility, the study was for the purpose of adding some type of pathway or sidewalk on Brookhollow and Woodcreek Drives. Prior to the meeting concerned citizens began visiting with their neighbors and obtained signatures from throughout the city on a petition to protest this project. In a short period of time, they were able to get signatures from the majority of the households on Brookhollow Drive and a substantial number of households on Woodcreek Drive and throughout the city who do not want to see our rural hill country community turned into an urban subdivision.
After reviewing the feasibility study there were several concerns about how this project would impact the citizens. Nothing in the study addressed the locations and dry creek beds along Brookhollow that serve as drainage fields for water that flows from Augusta Lane, across the golf course and exits onto Brookhollow. Any alteration of this flow could result in home flooding during heavy rain.
The study also mentioned an area of separation between the edge of the street and the edge of the trail; existing drainage flows along this area are likely to wash away the soil undermining the street and path surfaces and causing edge breaks like those that have occurred in the concrete road base along Brookhollow. Additionally, there is no reference to a FEMA flood study. While not usually required for this type of project, based on our terrain and the flooding issues that have resulted from the street resurfacing, it is safe to assume drainage issues will occur with this project. There is also concern that the increased flow rate of the runoff from adding solid surfaces will create flooding.
This would be a very expensive project even if the city is able to obtain some grant money and citizens are already paying off an existing bond from the road resurfacing. Based on how quickly the council chose to proceed with this project, it is apparent that there was no regard or consideration for citizen input. The citizens deserve better than this.
Kathy Maldonado, Woodcreek
