McKinney new construction builders/development

[Katana49]

Originally Posted by TheOverdog

McKinney is easily accessible along US75 and doesn't have to do anything to allow Celina or Prosper to grow, no matter if TXDoT or Collin County wants them to or not. Not their problem. 380 has worked fine for close to 50 years.

You don't seem to grasp the problem.

There isn't a good way to travel East to West and vice versa in McKinney. 121 is the only road that does so that is designed for high traffic levels, and of course, it's on the southern border of McKinney, so it's far from ideal and it doesn't help with the explosive growth that keeps pushing North.

380 is certainly NOT working fine, and it hasn't worked fine for the last decade. Anyone who lives in McKinney or nearby knows this. The bottleneck at 380/75 is horrible, and it's only getting worse over time. The solution should have been to expand 380, about 5 years ago. But now, there's finally all this development springing up along 380 and McKinney's city planners finally sat up and said "Hey, we should probably think about expanding this road"... too late.

So now their bypass solutions attempt to take traffic out of McKinney and dump it in Prosper or Celina. They want to make 1461 a 6 lane highway... there's no room for that. There's no room to do it on 380 either, unless you want to impact all the businesses that have sprung up there.

Bottom line, McKinney allowed expansion and developers to run amok without planning for the needs for roads to service their increased traffic in the future.

[EcoDeb]

We came from North Carolina some 17 years ago. Back then could have built in Frisco, McKinney, Prosper etc... however, we were drawn to Lake Lewisville areas. More trees, smaller communities and we could choose own own builder. Check out Crossroads, Oak Point and Lakewood Village, maybe Aubrey too. Welcome to North TX!

[EcoDeb]

Originally Posted by Katana49

You don't seem to grasp the problem.

There isn't a good way to travel East to West and vice versa in McKinney. 121 is the only road that does so that is designed for high traffic levels, and of course, it's on the southern border of McKinney, so it's far from ideal and it doesn't help with the explosive growth that keeps pushing North.

380 is certainly NOT working fine, and it hasn't worked fine for the last decade. Anyone who lives in McKinney or nearby knows this. The bottleneck at 380/75 is horrible, and it's only getting worse over time. The solution should have been to expand 380, about 5 years ago. But now, there's finally all this development springing up along 380 and McKinney's city planners finally sat up and said "Hey, we should probably think about expanding this road"... too late.

So now their bypass solutions attempt to take traffic out of McKinney and dump it in Prosper or Celina. They want to make 1461 a 6 lane highway... there's no room for that. There's no room to do it on 380 either, unless you want to impact all the businesses that have sprung up there.

Bottom line, McKinney allowed expansion and developers to run amok without planning for the needs for roads to service their increased traffic in the future.

Frisco lets everything in too. 380 to the DNTW is already a nightmare

Frisco City Council approved to rezone 77 acres on Tuesday along US 380 for a multilevel shopping center project with additional retail, office, hotel and urban-living residential units.