How almost 17 acres of land are used is up for debate in Cary.

A developer wants to build an office park, but nearby neighbors say it will just create more problems and planned to voice those concerns at Thursday's town council meeting.

The land is at the intersection of Piney Plains and Stephens Roads just upstream from the Wellington Park neighborhood. Justin Rogers recently moved to the neighborhood and is worried if the current plans for the development are approved, more storm water runoff will end up in his backyard.

"At the point it's at now, we've already had it come up over our property line and if they build up the office park we're worried it will increase its way up into our yard," Rogers said.

Rogers' neighbor Ruth Merkle shares the same concern along with one other.

"Traffic is my main concern, I live in the front end of Wellington Park and I have a hard time getting out of my subdivision as is," Merkle said.

Gray Styers represents Wimberly Associates, the developer, and said 200 foot buffers have been added along the property in the plan and a 10-year-flood retention pond to handle storm water.

"We've listed in our application nine conditions that go over and above what the Cary city ordinance requires of projects such as this," Styers said.

He also said a traffic study showing the area can handle the extra cars has been completed.

"This will be good for the town, good for the tax base," Styers said.

Despite several meetings, some neighbors aren't satisfied and have filed protest petitions but said they're willing to compromise.

"It's just too massive. They really need to scale it down tremendously to make us feel comfortable with the project," Merkle said.

Two years ago the same developer tried to build a residential area on the same plot of land but the Cary Town Council shot the proposal down. Since then, the developer has filed a suit against Cary which attorney Gray Styers said will be withdrawn if the developer can build this new proposed development.