Enterprise advisory board approves most permits, denies batch-plant permit for long-running Pittman detention basin project

The Enterprise Advisory Board on Jan. 15 approved use permit number 2 and related variances tied to the long-running Pittman North detention-basin project but denied use permit number 1, which covered a temporary concrete batch plant.

The permits relate to a privately funded detention basin and an associated temporary sand-and-gravel operation that, the applicant said, funded grading and materials for nearby residential development and a future school. Mark Mulhall, representing the applicant, outlined the project history and phasing, saying the original approvals date to 1997 and that the temporary mining and batching operations were intended to be phased out as the basin and school were completed. “I’m Mark Mulhall on behalf of the applicant,” he said during his presentation, then reviewed approvals, past redesignations and the project’s shrinkage from a 135-acre plan to about 40.38 acres.

Why it matters: The Pitman project has been used to fund a public drainage facility that the developer says…