The Round Rock City Council held a packet briefing on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 7:30 AM in the City Council Chambers. The meeting included citizen communication, discussions on multiple resolutions and ordinances for the upcoming January 22 City Council meeting, and a presentation on the annual Economic Development Compliance Report.
Good morning. I'll call 730 packet briefing order and please call the roll. Mayor Morgan. Here. Mayor Pro Tim Stevens. Here. Councilmember Lee. Here. Councilmember Flores? Here. Councilmember Fleming? Here. Councilmember Ortega? Here. Councilmember Montgomery. Here. All right. So this communication pursuant to text camera code section 551.007, which allows public speak for a total of three minutes on any of the agenda items list below, excluding executive sessions. Gary Eldon. Good morning. Morning. I'd uh like to ask you a couple of things this morning. The uh application for rezoning of 1000 uh South IH 35 with the Erical Mechanical property. Uh, I think it bears some additional due diligence before approval for a number of reasons. Uh one, there's no site plan submitted at this point, seems a little premature. The stated intended use for the properties expand warehouse operations and so forth. It would seem that uh simply rezoning the inaccessible single family uh parcel in question two, light industrial would allow the applicant to do that with uh without any further ado. So a PUD seems inappropriate uh for this rezoning. If anything, it seems like it's uh setting the property up for future use, perhaps as a data center. The applicant further has a history of uh circumventing process and procedure. They were fined in 2018 by at the maximum level by TCEQ for failing for developing uh a parking lot and staging area without uh first submitting a water pollution uh abatement plan to TCEQ, and at that same violation or same notice, they were fined for uh not containing a petroleum spill on the parking lot. So they've prematurely done that, and more recently, they've removed protected trees from the property, piling them up against the neighbor's backyard uh prior to author authorization for removal of those trees. So that seems uh a questionable history and circumvention of the minimal requirements placed upon them already. So I just think it needs a little more due diligence uh before approval. It seems a very odd request versus other options they have readily available to them. Uh additionally, the matter that'll be coming before you to modify the future land use map and round route 2030 for parcel right at the entrance to Old Settlers Park from open space to commercial. Uh the open space that was once at Old Settlers Park is dwindling rapidly in favor of sports and entertainment venues. Uh giving more of it up to commercial uses is seems a horrible misuse of that space. And of course, subsequent to the request for modifying the flum and round right 2030 is a request to rezone to commercial to allow for building an extended stay hotel effectively inside old settlers park. Please, please don't do further harm to the park than has already been done. Thank you. Be happy to answer any questions. Questions okay, thank y'all. Thank you chief. F two can say a resolution authorized Mayor Day Scout interlocal agreement with Huddle Cedar Park, Georgetown Leander, Flugaville and Williamson County. I know. How's it going? Good morning, Mayor and Council. How are you? Morning.