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Killeen resident starts petition to stop land along Featherline Road from being rezoned for new development
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Killeen resident starts petition to stop land along Featherline Road from being rezoned for new development

KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) – The Killeen City Council is expected to soon consider a much-opposed rezoning request for 87 acres along Featherline Road that would be used for approximately 300 new homes.

Earlier on Sunday, James Sills, who has been fighting this rezoning since March, held a petition signing event in hopes of putting an end to it.

It didn’t take long for these sheets to be filled with signatures from frustrated residents who live or drive along Featherline Road.

Kyle Korczak lives in one of these neighborhoods along Featherline and explains that this two-way street no longer has the infrastructure to handle the amount of traffic it already receives.

“Accidents happen here quite frequently and traffic gets backed up, people trying to get into the subdivision,” Korczak explained, “we already have over 500 cars a day driving down our residential street… you know, we have two small children and a third.” On the way, we don’t need additional traffic coming through here.”

And he is just one of many who agree that adding 300 new homes would only create more problems.

James Sills, who also lives in the area, started the Fix Featherline Facebook group to help give his community a voice.

“We’ve been able to communicate with each other, come together and say, ‘Hey, this area is not ready, we have concerns about the road, we have concerns about safety, we have concerns about water, drainage and flooding.’” Shared windowsills.

But it’s not just residents who are worried. Earlier this month, the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission recommended disapproval of this application.

Sills explained that “they just discovered that there was no substantial need for these homes, there are over 1,500 homes in this area or being developed in this area, and then obviously they also brought up some safety concerns with the road infrastructure.”

That’s when he put together this petition, which has already received over a hundred signatures in the last week alone, with many more added today.

“What we’ve tried to do is raise as much as we can for people who can’t attend city council meetings or planning and zoning meetings,” Sills said, “we just want to give those people the opportunity to know your voices, and that is what we are doing today.”

Now they are just waiting for the rezoning request to be placed on the city council agenda, where council members will make a decision.

“The city council will have to have supermajority approval again if they want to pass this,” Sills said. Which means six out of seven councilors will have to approve the request.

For more information about this petition and to sign it you can visit the Fix Featherline Facebook Page.