Houston-Galveston Area Council

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Map of Texas highlighting counties served by the Houston-Galveston Area Council

Formation| September 1966
Type| Voluntary association of governments

Region served

| 12,444 sq mi (32,230 km2)
Membership| 13 counties
Historical populationYear| Pop.| ±%

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2000| 4,854,454| —
2010| 6,087,133| +25.4%
2020| 7,297,022| +19.9%
Source: [1][2]

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

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Based in Houston, the Houston-Galveston Area Council is a member of the Texas Association of Regional Councils. 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.[3]

### Metropolitan Planning Organization

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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.[4]

## Counties served

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* Austin
* Brazoria
* Chambers
* Colorado
* Fort Bend
* Galveston
* Harris
* Liberty
* Matagorda
* Montgomery
* Walker
* Waller
* Wharton

## Largest cities in the region

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* Houston
* Pasadena
* Sugar Land
* Baytown
* Missouri City
* Galveston
* League City
* Pearland
* Conroe
* Texas City
* Huntsville
* La Porte
* Friendswood

## See also

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* Houston-Galveston Area Council 2035 Regional Transportation Plan

## References

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1. ^ Total Population Estimates for Texas Councils of Governments Archived 2007-12-07 at the Wayback Machine \- Texas State Data Center.
2. ^ "Redistricting Data for Texas Counties, 2000-2020". Texas Demographic Center. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
3. ^ HGAC Info
4. ^ Member Orientation to the Transportation Advisory Committee. Houston-Galveston Area Council. 17 March 2021. Event occurs at Item 2, time 02:00. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

## External links

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* Official website
* Houston-Galveston Area Council 2035 Regional Transportation Plan

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