The city of Windcrest is eying a new road and is applying its traffic regulations in the swath of land it gained in the Rackspace Managed Hosting deal.

Thanks to City Council action Oct. 15, Windcrest city staff is requesting the San Antonio-Bexar County Metro-politan Planning Organization to add a planned thoroughfare to its classification system map.

Mayor Jack Leonhardt recently wrote MPO Director Sid Martinez, asking the transportation planning group to consider the new road as a minor arterial or collector route that would link Walzem and Eisenhauer roads.

The proposed street, appearing in a conceptual map as Racker Road, would begin at the intersection of Walzem and Fourwinds Drive, run southward through Rackspace’s redeveloped Windsor Park Mall property, curving to eventually link with the intersection of Eisenhauer and King Arthur Drive.

“The purpose of the roadway would be to provide necessary two-way connectivity for the traveling public between these roadways,” Leonhardt wrote. “Not only would this roadway provide an internal connection for this area, but it would also prevent a significant number of motorists from having to utilize the (Interstate 35) frontage roads, thus reducing congestion at the major intersections of Walzem at I-35 and Eisenhauer at I-35.”

A special state law authored by State Rep. Joe Straus earlier this year enabled the city of San Antonio to transfer 229 acres of land to Windcrest, including the vacant mall that the high-tech firm Rackspace plans to transform into its new corporate headquarters. Boun-daries for the newly acquired land include Mordred Drive, King Arthur, Ray Bon and Excalibur drives.

The Windcrest council also voted Oct. 15 to amend the city’s existing traffic and parking laws, applying stop and yield signs, speed limits and traffic-control signal regulations across the acquired land. This includes providing a 35-mph speed limit on Walzem from 35 to Mordred.

Additionally, local officials are working to develop zoning regulations that would be applicable to future developments in the annexed area.