A second Chick-fil-A restaurant planned for the Route 140 corridor in Westminster has city approval and a finalized road design. However, construction of a new Carroll County access road remains the primary condition that must be met before building permits can be issued.
Westminster's Planning and Zoning Commission conditionally approved the site plan for a 5,493-square-foot restaurant on August 21, 2025, and approved the final resubdivision of the property at its February 19, 2026, meeting.
The proposed site is the former Schulte Property, a 7.84-acre vacant parcel at the southeast corner of MD 140 and Old Baltimore Boulevard. The developer is The Morgan Companies, a Charlotte, NC-based firm operating through Baltimore Blvd Realty LLC.
Road construction is the remaining condition
The restaurant will not have direct access to Route 140. Under the city's approval conditions, all access to the site must run through Market Street Extended, a new Carroll County-owned connector road planned to run from MD 140 south to Old Westminster Pike, terminating at a roundabout at the entrance to the Stonegate neighborhood.
The conditions are sequential: construction of Market Street Extended must be actively underway, past the excavation and grading stage, before the city will issue building permits for the restaurant. The road must be fully completed and accepted by the Carroll County Commissioners before a use-and-occupancy permit can be granted.
Carroll County Public Works Director Bryan Bokey approved the road's final design on June 26, 2025, with all State Highway Administration comments resolved.
Multi-party coordination and community involvement
A formal site plan for the Chick-fil-A was submitted in September 2023, followed by a traffic impact study, multiple rounds of agency review, and a January 2024 community meeting with residents of the residential streets west of the proposed road, including Oak, Elm, Maple, Sycamore, Willow, Locust, and Spruce Avenues.
Residents raised concerns that a new commercial development and connector road would increase cut-through traffic on those streets. A diversion study by Traffic Concepts, Inc. concluded that Market Street Extended would reduce such traffic by providing a direct collector route that eliminates the incentive to use local residential streets to access MD 140.
The City of Westminster also requested that a pedestrian crossing of MD 140 be studied and potentially required as part of the project. Carroll County and SHA declined to support one, citing safety concerns and potential impacts on signal timing. The city withdrew the request but asked that the road be designed to accommodate a crossing if one is pursued in the future. A second parcel south of the Chick-fil-A site, comprising 5.458 acres, is reserved for future commercial or retail development.
Westminster Wire reached out to the Carroll County government for an update on the construction of Market Street Extended and had not received a reply by the time of publication.
Photos: from City of Westminster Planning & Zoning meeting documents