CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Citizens of Corpus Christi will have the opportunity to vote on a proposition to fix four high traffic streets in the city.
Earlier this summer, the city released a community survey asking residents for their input on how the city should use expiring sales tax. The most requested was residential street improvements and that is what Proposition E will be focusing on. If passed, some of the busiest streets in Corpus Christi could soon see improvements.
Jeff Edmonds is the Director of Engineering Services for Corpus Christi and said this project was initially on the 2024 bond but was added to the Sales Tax Reauthorization Proposition.
"They're going on the Sales Texas Proposition because the sales tax, the enabling legislation allows those funds to be used for arterial and collector streets. Streets that have some kind of economic development nexus," Edmonds said.
Sheri James is the owner of Sheri James Boutique on Alameda and Doddridge. She said several years ago her business was impacted by street construction and hopes that if this proposition passes, this time around it will be different.
"We always want to better the city and I'm not very familiar with what's proposed but if it comes, you know, if they can just make it easy to get to the businesses, that would be very helpful," James said.
The 35-million dollar proposition will target both arterial and collector streets, which function as feeder streets with limited traffic to areas with high traffic.
"With Proposition E it's Lower Broadway, there's two segments of Alameda, Sam Rankin and Yorktown," Edmonds said.
Edmonds said the Everhart Street project is now 40% complete and the Alameda Street project is one-third of the way finished.