The Center City Council has recently approved a contract with Fort Worth-based engineering firm Freese and Nichols to conduct an update of the City's Comprehensive Plan and a Water System Master Plan.  Center Mayor David Chadwick says the last such plan was conducted ten years ago, but the passage of time and projects brings about new priorities.  "Who would have thought 10 years ago that we would have suffered through the worst drought in the State's history or that activity from the Haynesville Shale would be in Shelby County," says Cener Mayor David Chadwick.

The mayor says the city is going to put together a team of citizens to help create a vision of what they want the city to be in the next 25 years.  The mayor says he hopes to have a committe of about 12 to begin looking into issues such as projected population growth, current and future land use, physical constraints, a thoroughfare plan and neighborhood and community livability.''

The mayor says the work on the plan should take about six months to complete and be ready for public feedback in November.