Houston-Galveston Area Council

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 population
Year	Pop.	±%
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

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

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

Largest cities in the region

References

^ Total Population Estimates for Texas Councils of Governments Archived 2007-12-07 at the Wayback Machine - Texas State Data Center.
^ "Redistricting Data for Texas Counties, 2000-2020". Texas Demographic Center. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
^ 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 28 December 2023.

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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.

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v t e Texas Association of Regional Councils
Councils of Government	Alamo Area Ark-Tex Brazos Valley Capital Area Central Texas Coastal Bend Concho Valley Deep East Texas East Texas Heart of Texas North Central Texas Rio Grande Texoma West Central Texas
Regional Planning Commissions	Golden Crescent Nortex Panhandle Permian Basin South East Texas
Development Councils	Lower Rio Grande Valley Middle Rio Grande South Texas
Association of Governments	South Plains
Councils	Houston-Galveston Area

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States