Council To Consider Banning Commercial Trucks Along Settles Boulevard [UPDATE]

ROUND ROCK, TX -- City council members Tuesay will consider an ordinance barring commercial trucks on certain roadways as complaints mount from residents about workers using their streets to get to construction sites.

At their regular Feb. 11 council meeting, council will fashion an ordinance to ban such traffic on Bluffstone Drive from County Road 117 to Old Settlers Boulevard on Settlers Park Loop.

From the loop, that section runs from the eastern intersection with Old Settlers Boulevard to its western intersection with western section, from Old Settlers Boulevard to Clinton Place -- on Pauling Lane from Red Bud Lane to Butler Way and on Marshall Trail from County Road 117 to Clinton Place.

The issue stems from resident complaints about construction trucks using the neighborhood arteries to get to the work site where a multipurpose sports complex is being built. The developing venue is highly anticipated by community members -- particularly parents with children participating in sports leagues -- but some don’t like the heightened commercial traffic that’s resulted from construction.

The Feb. 11 council meeting during which the ordinance will be discussed begins at 7 p.m. in City Council chambers at 221 E. Main St.

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From Feb. 9:

ROUND ROCK, TX -- City officials are mulling the idea of banning commercial trucks from traveling on Old Settlers Boulevard in light of mounting complaints from homeowners.

“You know it’s bad when they’ve got a sweeper guy going by, like 24/7,” resident Ethan Tweedie told KVUE-TV. “He’s going back and forth.”

Some of the bolstered truck traffic originates from construction on the multi-use sports complex being built at Old Settlers. Residents say workers are cutting through their neighborhoods to get to and from the building site for one of the community’s most-anticipated projects.

“These streets, there’s kids playing; the trucks are huge; they make a lot of noise; they’re dirty,” Tweedie enumerates, in a litany of complaints mirroring those of his neighbors.

Such complaints have reached City Hall, and City Council members are expected to discuss the matter at their regular meeting this week. They’re not expected to take formal action on the matter until two weeks from now.