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Schertz traffic panel to revisit neighborhood concerns and weigh counting software

Residents can speak Nov. 5 as the city’s transportation safety panel revisits neighborhood traffic concerns and considers adding software for traffic counts.

A curving road passes blue trees and pale grass, with a blank notebook and red pencil in the foreground.
Illustration: A neighborhood road, notebook and pencil evoke local traffic concerns and proposed traffic counts; this does not depict the reported meeting.Original editorial illustration; not a photograph and does not depict the reported event or an exact property.Comal.News Visual Desk · Original illustration · Source ↗ · Comal.News original illustration ↗

Schertz’s Transportation Safety Advisory Commission is scheduled to revisit neighborhood traffic concerns and consider purchasing Urban SDK traffic-count software on Nov. 5.

The posted agenda brings several street-level questions back before the panel: speeding and pavement markings near Ashley Park, possible speed humps on two streets, and sight lines along FM 1518. The software proposal is the meeting’s listed action on how the city might collect traffic counts.

From the source record

Posted meeting agendaTransportation Safety Advisory Commission, Nov. 5
Discussion and possible action to approve the purchase and use of Urban SDK software for traffic counts.
City of Schertz agenda portal ↗
The posted Nov. 5 agenda lists a proposed software action alongside neighborhood traffic updates.

The Oct. 1 commission agenda also listed Ashley Park, Crest Oak and Golden Oak, and FM 1518 traffic concerns. Their return gives residents a specific opportunity to hear what staff and commissioners say next about those locations. The earlier agenda establishes that the subjects were previously scheduled; it does not establish what was resolved there.

Neighborhood updates

Item 4 schedules updates on Ashley Park speeding and pavement markings; optional speed humps on Crest Oak and Golden Oak; trees, sight lines and ownership near FM 1518, Aviation Boulevard and Aztec Way; and access from Primrose and a medical office to Schertz Parkway. These are separate questions with different possible remedies. Someone who uses those streets can look for a location-specific explanation of the observed problem, who controls the affected area and what staff proposes to do. The posted item is an update, not a recorded decision.

Staff comments and new requests under Item 5 cover Buffalo Valley South signage, Woodland Oaks bulb outs and striping, safety near Rose Garden Elementary and FM 1518, left turns from Lantana onto Cibolo Valley Drive, and signage and lighting at Trainer Hale and Weir Road. Those requests widen the discussion beyond the locations carried over from October. The agenda identifies topics for staff comment; it supplies no design, installation date or price for a change at any of them.

Item 6 is reserved for TxDOT updates. For concerns involving FM 1518, that portion of the meeting may help residents distinguish a city discussion from information supplied by the state transportation agency. The agenda does not specify an individual TxDOT project or action for the update.

Traffic counts and the next record

Item 7 calls for discussion and possible action to approve purchasing and using Urban SDK software for traffic counts. A traffic count could inform later discussion of street conditions, but the posted agenda does not state a purchase price, deployment plan or resulting count. The useful question at the meeting is what the commission is being asked to authorize and how any counts would be used. A proposed approval remains a proposal until an outcome record documents action.

Item 3 asks commissioners to approve the Oct. 1 meeting minutes. The separate agenda-item page identifies the minutes proposal; approval of those minutes would concern the prior meeting’s record, not independently settle the traffic questions listed for Nov. 5.

How residents can take part

Residents can register before the meeting to speak for up to five minutes during the hearing of residents. A speaker concerned about one of the named streets can identify the location and the requested change, then listen for any staff response or future agenda request. The public-comment period is listed as Item 2, ahead of the traffic updates and software proposal.

The commission is scheduled to meet Thursday, Nov. 5, at 5:30 p.m. in the Hal Baldwin Municipal Complex Council Chambers, 1400 Schertz Parkway, Building 4. Commissioners may request future agenda topics under Item 8. The agenda begins with call to order and roll call and ends with adjournment. Readers can use the posted meeting agenda to check the order of business before attending, then look for the subsequent meeting record to verify any software action and follow-up on the listed roads.

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