Farm to Market Road 2696


Farm to Market Road 2696 is a farm to market road in Bexar County, Texas. It is known in Greater San Antonio as Blanco Road, a major north–south thoroughfare.

Route description

FM 2696 begins at Interstate 410 at the western fringe of Uptown San Antonio, just east of Castle Hills. The route travels north through north central San Antonio, crossing Wurzbach Parkway and Loop 1604. It then runs along the eastern edge of the Camp Bullis Military Training Reservation. The designation ends just south of the Comal County line; however, Blanco Road itself continues into Comal County to an intersection with SH 46.

History

FM 2696 was designated on March 22, 1961, from Loop 410 northward to the Camp Bullis Entrance. FM 2696 was extended north three times: by on September 29, 1977, on October 21, 1981, and to near the Comal County line on October 26, 1983. The segment between IH 410 and Loop 1604 was officially changed to Urban Road 2696 on June 27, 1995; the designation reverted to FM 2696 with the elimination of the Urban Road system on November 15, 2018.
On December 18, 2014, the northernmost of the route, from the San Antonio city limit near Calico Landing to the Comal County line, was removed from the state highway system and returned to Bexar County. An earlier San Antonio turnback proposal would have completely decommissioned FM 2696, but the city of San Antonio said no to that proposal, and instead passed a different turnback proposal which resulted in the turnback of many other highways on the day that FM 2696 was truncated.

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