Roads, water top concerns for county

More than 10,000 new residential housing lots are soon to be built within just a few miles of this city of 17,000, and a 1,000 lot mobile home park is scheduled to be built on Texas 79 behind Covert Ford, County Commissioner Russ Boles told a packed audience at the Greater Taylor Chamber of Commerce monthly business luncheon on Monday.

“There’s a migration change. It is a ‘turn and don’t look back’ moment. It has never happened before,” the Pct. 4 commissioner said. “People are coming like nothing we’ve experienced before.

We’re trying to build roads and be proactive, but that takes time.”