TOBY POWELL

HOUSTON – A funeral procession for Conroe Mayor Toby Powell was held Friday. The procession began at 10 a.m. at 700 Metcalf St. (FM 2854) and wound through downtown Conroe before continuing on to the Garden Park Cemetery, 801 Teas Road (FM 3083). Here was the procession route. Memorial procession for Mayor Toby Powell. Powell died on Sept. 12 after a battle with cancer.

HOUSTON – Mayor Toby Powell died Saturday at his home surrounded by his family, the city of Conroe announced. “Mayor Powell has fought a valiant fight against cancer for the past several years and even through his personal pain he has led this City with integrity, spirit, determination,” the city wrote in a Facebook tribute. “Mayor Powell once said he would fight for the City of Conroe, that he loved so much until his dying breath.”“Rest in Peace Mayor Toby — job on earth well done. Please pray for the City and the Mayor’s family during this difficult time.”The Conroe Police Department also extended condolences to the Powell family. “Rest in peace Honorable Mayor of the City of Conroe, Toby Powell,” the department wrote on Facebook.

Residential streets could soon be built narrower within Conroe city limits, but council members were not unanimously supportive of the measure at the June 27 meeting. Conroe City Council deferred an item that would have changed its code of ordinances to add density options to street widths for new developments at its June 27 meeting. Tommy Woolley, the director of the Conroe Engineering Department, presented three residential street width options for developers and builders to choose from in the future, without resorting to variance requests. RELATED CISD School Avenue renamed Excellence Avenue by Conroe City Council Conroe City Council unanimously renamed CISD School Avenue to Excellence Avenue at the May 9 council meeting. I have too many issues with this to support this at this time, council member Seth Gibson said at the workshop.