Planning commission denies rezoning for Highway 92 concrete plant after extensive resident opposition

The Mecklenburg County Planning Commission denied a request to rezone two parcels on Highway 92 from agricultural to Industrial M-1 to allow a concrete ready-mix plant, citing extensive resident opposition and commissioners’ concerns about traffic, noise and air quality. The applicant’s team described a proposed 3-acre industrial footprint that would host a construction entrance, parking, a small office, aggregate storage bins, above-ground admixture containers, two concrete-lined sediment basins and washout pits. Civil engineer Gerald Hooten and representatives for Commercial Ready Mix told the commission the facility would operate within environmental controls and permit regimes including a Virginia Pollution Discharge Elimination…