Council approves concrete‑recycling and crushing operation on Greentop Road with amended hours and materials language

Sussex County Council voted to approve a conditional use for F & N Vasquez Concrete LLC to operate a concrete and masonry business, including aggregate recycling and crushing operations, on a 32.95‑acre parcel off Greentop Road, adopting planning commission recommendations with council amendments on materials and operating hours.

The council amended the planning commission’s recommended conditions to add specific reference to asphalt (“asphaltic concrete (asphalt)”), to explicitly permit related structures such as a scale and scale house, and to set delivery hours to 7 a.m.‑7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m.‑2 p.m. on Saturday with no deliveries allowed on Sunday. Councilman McCarran moved the amendment and council approved it before taking the final vote; council later approved the conditional use as amended.

Attorney David Hutt, representing F & N Vasquez Concrete LLC, described the site as an approximately 32.95‑acre parcel with a long history of borrow‑pit activity and past conditional‑use designation. Hutt said the site’s concrete product had previously “met…