BY BRITTANY ANDERSON, GRANT CRAWFORD & BROOKE SJOBERG
Zydeco withdraws data center zoning request Zydeco Development, an Austin-based com- mercial real estate development firm, withdrew its request to rezone a parcel of land currently designated for residential uses to build a data center, Hutto city officials announced in a news release April 17. What you need to know Per the news release, Zydeco’s proposal for the data center at 450 Ed Schmidt Boulevard would have required amendments to Hutto’s future land use map and the SOAR 2040 Comprehensive Plan to convert the site from being zoned multifamily residential to heavy industrial. Director of Development Services Howard Koontz formally recommended against approving the request on April 7, per the release. Zydeco’s withdrawal came just before a special called planning and zoning commission meeting
Hutto to assist on wastewater project The cities of Round Rock and Hutto are coordinating in an effort to extend wastewa- ter services in Round Rock’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, just across SH 130. What you need to know
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Round Rock officials approved on April 9 a contract with BGE Inc. to
that was scheduled to take place April 20, where its application was the sole agenda item for consideration. Following Zydeco’s withdrawal, the meeting was canceled. Those opposed The data center saw considerable opposition from residents, including Katie Martin, an orga- nizer for the local Stop the Hutto Data Center group. The group held a press conference April 16, citing health, noise, heat, water and power usage concerns with the potential data center.
provide engineering services for a future wastewater lift station and force main located near the intersection of CR 100 and CR 118, east of SH 130. The project will take roughly five years, and Round Rock is coordinating with the city of Hutto to temporarily drain wastewa- ter from the area into Hutto’s wastewater system until the Round Rock lift station is fully constructed.
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