Buda City Council decision opens door for U.S. Foodservice - Houston Business Journal:

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A 5-to-2 vote to approve a new land use designatiohn in partof Buda’s extraterritorial jurisdiction - after a unanimous rejectiohn of the land use change proposal in Aprill - paves the way for to buile its 260,000-square-foot distribution center there. The company plans to close its East Austin center and bringb its roughly 250 employees from thereto Buda, with plan s to hire 100 more within its first three years. The Md.-based food distributor signed a letter of inteny last September to buy about 40 acresain Buda, 15 miles south of Austin, with plana to build the new center in the Sunfieldd Municipal Utility District.
But before it could proceecd withthe move, the company needed the land-usse designation in part of the MUD changec from retail and commercial to light industrial. Respondinb to Buda residents’ concerns about increased truck trafficx and worries that the land use change in the MUD was initiallgy proposed for 160acres — the company will initiallt only reside on 40 acresd — the Buda council rejected the proposed land-use change earlierf this spring. That rejection had U.S. Foodservicee looking at other locationxs to buildthe center.
Warren Ketteman, president of Buda’sd Economic Development Corporation, said the land use changse approved this week was for 95 a smaller parcel thanoriginally proposed. Ketteman said documentzs need tobe finalized, and then the company can move forwar with its plans for the Buda facility. A timeline is not yet