Houston-Galveston Area Council
Formation | September 1966 |
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Type | Voluntary association of governments |
Region served | 12,444 sq mi (32,230 km2) |
Membership | 13 counties |
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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2000 | 4,854,454 | — |
2006 | 5,463,804 | +12.6% |
2010 | 5,892,075 | +7.8% |
2017 | 6,862,641 | +16.5% |
Source: [1] |
The Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) is the region-wide voluntary association of local governments in the 13-county Gulf Coast Planning Region of Texas. The organization works with local government officials to solve problems across the area. H-GAC was founded in 1966.
The organization[]
Based in Houston, the Houston-Galveston Area Council is a member of the . Its service area is 12,500 square miles and contains more than 6 million people in Southeast Texas. H-GAC is the regional organization through which local governments consider issues and cooperate in solving area-wide problems. Through H-GAC, local governments also initiate efforts in anticipating and preventing problems.
H-GAC provides planning programs in most areas of shared governmental concern. All H-GAC programs are carried out under the policy direction of H-GAC’s local elected official Board of Directors. H-GAC is made up of the region's local governments and their elected officials. The organization works with public and private sector organizations and a host of volunteers.[2]
Metropolitan Planning Organization[]
In 1974, the Governor of Texas designated a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) that includes eight H-GAC counties: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller. The H-GAC Board of Directors serves as the fiscal agent for the H-GAC MPO. The MPO's Policy Board is the Transportation Policy Council (TPC), an independent policy making body. The TPC's responsibilities include: adopting the Regional Transportation Plan; selecting all federally funded and most state-funded transportation projects (all projects with "regional significance"); conducting a continuing, comprehensive, collaborative planning process; and demonstrating that selected projects will not hinder regional progress towards emissions reduction.[3]
Counties served[]
- Austin
- Brazoria
- Chambers
- Colorado
- Fort Bend
- Galveston
- Harris
- Liberty
- Matagorda
- Montgomery
- Walker
- Waller
- Wharton
Largest cities in the region[]
- Houston
- Pasadena
- Sugar Land
- Baytown
- Missouri City
- Galveston
- League City
- Pearland
- Conroe
- Texas City
- Huntsville
- La Porte
- Friendswood
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Total Population Estimates for Texas Councils of Governments Archived 2007-12-07 at the Wayback Machine - Texas State Data Center.
- ^ HGAC Info
- ^ Member Orientation to the Transportation Advisory Committee. Houston-Galveston Area Council. 17 March 2021. Event occurs at Item 2, time 02:00. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
External links[]
- Texas Association of Regional Councils
- Councils of governments
- Texas stubs