St. Edward’s University began working on a new campus master plan in October, and when the architecture firm designing the plan asked neighbors for their opinions, the firm received complaints about school facilities encroaching on residential property and street parking.

A crowd of around 30 people—many of whom live in the Sherwood Oaks neighborhood, which is north of the Catholic liberal arts university off South Congress Avenue and Woodward Street—asked officials during a meeting Oct. 20 why the neighborhood had no input in the decision to build the university’s new operations building. Once the new facility is built, delivery trucks will park, unload and turn around in the street—about 84 feet from a residential property line, according to site plans.

 “We’re fresh off what we consider a huge insult to our neighborhood,” said Joe Farley, who lives across from the baseball field on St. Edwards Drive.

He said the Sherwood Oaks neighborhood had no opportunity to voice its concerns regarding the new two-story operations building, which is slated to open in January and will house several campus support services, including the university police department, according to the university’s website. Mischelle Diaz, director of communications for St. Edward’s, said the university aims to address some concerns by talking with the Austin Police Department about increasing patrol and installing speed-monitoring signals.

The university also redirected athletics buses after receiving complaints that buses were idling in front of homes, Diaz said.