Through the Texas Department of Transportation’s regular planning cycle, planners with the organization conducted a public meeting in Comfort to discuss rural planning for Kendall County.
Kendall County is in a unique situation, housing two kinds of regional planning organizations with TxDOT, with the city of Boerne being lumped in the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization and the rest of the county falling in the Alamo Regional Rural Planning Organization.
Darcie Schipull, a planner with TxDOT, explained to the roughly dozen people who attended the meeting at the Gaddis Memorial United Methodist Church in Comfort on Tuesday evening that rural planning organizations are reserved for counties or municipalities with a population less than 50,000 and are not required. However, she said being part of a rural planning organization can grant municipalities access to greater project funding through TxDOT.
