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Cedar Park council unanimously denies request to reclassify 1701 Baghdad Road after neighbors cite septic, noise and safety concerns
Summary
City council voted unanimously to deny a petition to change the future land use designation for a 1-acre property at 1701 Baghdad Road after multiple neighbors and nearby school representatives raised concerns about septic odors, parking, traffic safety and unpermitted commercial activity.
The Cedar Park City Council unanimously denied a petition to amend the city's future land use plan for a 1-acre property at 1701 Baghdad Road, rejecting a request to change the site from its current local-office/retail-commercial designation to a regional-office/retail-commercial designation.
Neighbors and school stakeholders told the council the site's current commercial activity has created public-health, safety and quality-of-life problems. Jennifer Krolick, a long-time Carriage Hills resident, urged the council to reject the petition, saying the site emits "a constant overwhelming odor of raw sewage" and that the septic system "clearly can't accommodate the very high volume of people using it day to day." She asked whether the septic discharge was draining toward neighborhood storm sewers or the…
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