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A 5-to-2 vote to approved a new land use designation in partof Buda’s extraterritorial jurisdiction - after a unanimous rejectioj of the land use change proposal in Aprikl - paves the way for to builr its 260,000-square-foot distribution center there. The company plans to close its East Austin cente r and bring its roughly 250 employees from there to with plans to hire 100 more within its first three The Columbia, Md.-based food distributor signedr a letter of inten last September to buy about 40 acres in 15 miles south of Austin, with plane to build the new center in the Sunfield Municipal Utilith District.
But before it could proceed with the the company neededthe land-use designatiom in part of the MUD changed from retail and commerciak to light industrial. Responding to Buda concerns about increased truck traffic and worries that the land use changs in the MUD was initiall proposed for 160acres — the compan will initially only reside on 40 acreds — the Buda council rejectesd the proposed land-use change earlier this That rejection had U.S. Foodservices looking at other locations to build the Warren Ketteman, president of Buda’ws Economic Development Corporation, said the land use changse approved this week was for 95 a smaller parcel than originally proposed.
Ketteman said documentsd need tobe finalized, and then the compan y can move forward with its plans for the Buda A timeline is not yet clear.
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