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For 30 years, Texas A&M graduate urban planning students have helped small Texas communities realize brighter futures by partnering with them to create plans that improve their economic and cultural destinies, and their resilience to the growing threat of natural hazards such as flooding and hurricanes.

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The comprehensive plan that was created in the collaboration between Caldwell’s residents, itsmunicipal government, and Texas Target Communities earned a prestigious 2022 TexasPlanning Award from the state chapter of the American Planning Association.

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Landscape architecture and urban planning students proposed future plans for three Texas locales, whose residents helped create the plans.