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Nugent Road residents urge council to reject rezoning, cite traffic and process failures
Summary
Several Nugent Road homeowners told the Abilene City Council they oppose changing a wedge of land from agricultural/open space to commercial, citing increased truck traffic, effects on property values and concerns that Planning & Zoning recommendations and notifications lacked transparency.
Residents along Nugent Road used the council’s public comment period to press the city to reject a proposed rezoning that would convert a rural wedge of land near FM 600 from agricultural/open space to commercial use.
Multiple speakers described Nugent Road as a quiet, rural residential area and warned that rezoning would bring additional truck traffic, noise and decreased confidence for buyers and builders in the area. “The road can’t take it,”…
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