City OKs Public Meetings To Decide Future Of Transmountain

The El Paso City Council has approved going on with public process to determine what to do with nearly 800 of city-owned land next to the proposed Trans Mountain Freeway.

In a unanimous decision Tuesday morning, the Council approved spending $200,000 to hire the consulting firm, Dover Kohl, to amend the Northwest master plan so that the Public Service Board, the open-space advisory board and petitioners fighting to preserve the land can have equal input.