Opponents to Brazos County's future east loop highway respond to county judge's statements

This podcast contains comments from the May 13, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.The week after Brazos County judge Duane Peters finished the May 6th commission meeting responding to opponents of the future east loop highway, then adjourning the meeting, the May 13th meeting began with opponents responding to Peters statement.The county judge was not present to hear the more than 40 minutes of comments from ten speakers.Click HERE to be directed to the Brazos County YouTube archived video of the May 13, 2025 meeting. Public comments begin at the 8:20 mark of the archived video.Click HERE to be directed to the "No East Loop" YouTube video that the organization says is a rebuttal to the county judge's statement.At the end of Tuesday's meeting, the audience applauded commissioner Fred Brown's call for a public hearing.According to information presented at the county's May 6th public meeting updating the work of the commission's consultant, the comment period on the east loop highway ends May 23rd. Comments can be sent by e-mail to [email protected] HERE to read and download presentation materials from the May 6, 2025 east loop public meeting.Click HERE to be directed to Brazos County's website about the east loop highway.Original story, May 7, 2025:Brazos County judge Duane Peters brought up at the end of Tuesday's meeting (May 6), what he called "false accusations" from opponents of the future highway to the east of College Station and Bryan.Peters used a slide presentation to show the commission brought up the loop in July of 2022, which was followed by the November 2022 bond election where 67 percent of voters approved Proposition A, which included money for the loop and six other highway projects.Click HERE to read and download presentation materials from the May 6, 2025 Brazos County commission meeting.Peters said the election results "were a clear mandate of the people", and "it's the responsibility of this court to respect the will of the people."Peters also said "It's not my position to say I'm going to overturn the election that was duly done by the citizens of Brazos County", adding "that would be totally inappropriate for this court or me to say we're going to toss out what you told us to do and do something totally different. Sorry."After Peters said no to someone's request to speak, the meeting was adjourned.