County nearing end of road on thoroughfare master plan
5 Jun 2026
Guadalupe County, Roads
Dalondo Moultrie | The Seguin Gazette
Hosting a visibly smaller crowd than a previous meeting in the venue, the Guadalupe County Commissioners Court recently held its final in-person public meeting on its major thoroughfare plan.
The court held a gathering Tuesday at the Geronimo Community Center, where nearly 100 people attended to review planned maps and offer comments to help guide the county’s future development.
County officials spoke with community members a few days before Friday’s closing of the public comment section of adopting the updated major thoroughfare plan.
Of the scores of visitors to the come-and-go meeting, many still held reservations about the document, said Doug Burnside, Guadalupe County’s Road and Bridge administrator.
“People are defensive about it and don’t realize it is a tool we’re trying to implement to protect their properties if and when their children sell,” he said.
The major thoroughfare plan is a long-range planning tool for future roadways that serves as a communication tool between the county and its residents and developers to help guide the county’s future roadway system.
Commissioners addressed questions and concerns about roads in their precincts at Tuesday’s meeting.
Guadalupe County Precinct 2 resident Shaun Seale spoke for a while with County Judge Kyle Kutscher. Seale said he shared thoughts on proposed plans for FM 621 between FM 20 and State Highway 130.
“We don’t want it mostly because it’s going to take out half my front yard. My neighbors, it’s going to take out a portion of his land. It’s not set in stone but it could happen,” Seale said. “I just don’t think from what I can see that it’s going to be much benefit to connect 621 to 130 when all you have to do it keep going straight down 20 to connect to 123.”
Chevo Tristan, another Precinct 2 resident, said the proposed master thoroughfare plan seems to hinge taking a lot of private property to expand roads, which he disagrees with. Plus, expanded roads will lead to additional vehicles on those roads in an already congested county, he said.
“It’s something we don’t need because there’s so much traffic already,” Tristan said. “We don’t need to encourage more people to go through there. … We don’t need more traffic. All this traffic is new.”
Commissioners court has collected similar feedback and views for months, working with its subcontractor, civil engineering firm Pape-Dawson Engineers out of San Antonio. The firm helped has out the proposed master thoroughfare plan.
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