Field notes on Jersey Village — drainage, budgets, planning, and the long work of building a city worth staying in.
Lower tax rates and a well-run city are not opposites. The trick is spending discipline that shows up every budget cycle, not just in an election year.
A comprehensive plan is not a binder that sits on a shelf. Used correctly, it is the reason a city's decisions add up to something over twenty years instead of contradicting each other every two.
Flood mitigation in Jersey Village is not one project. It is a decades-long partnership with the county, and here is where it actually stands.