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Planning commission recommends temporary concrete batch plant near Washington Fields Drive
Summary
The Washington City Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of a temporary conditional use permit (CD-24-18) for a portable concrete batch plant at approximately 7600 South Washington Fields Drive, with conditions limiting duration, hours, exports and requiring screening and erosion controls.
The Washington City Planning Commission on Feb. 5 recommended approval of CD-24-18, a conditional use permit for a temporary concrete batch plant to be located at approximately 7600 South Washington Fields Drive. The applicant is Freeport West in Daybreak LLC.
City staff described the site as roughly 6.41 acres and said the mobile batch plant would serve concrete needs for the Ara Southwest Logistics Center development, providing concrete for footings, slabs, tilt-up walls, curb, gutter and sidewalks. Staff also said the plant would occasionally deliver concrete off-site.
Staff recommended limiting the permit term to five years with up to two five-year extensions, and listed 11 conditions intended to reduce impacts. Key conditions include: a five-year initial approval with two possible 5-year extensions (15-year cap); prohibition on crushing or recycling concrete on site; normal hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. with occasional early-morning pours outside those hours; a requirement that the plant primarily serve the Ara development with exports limited to a five-mile radius; a minimum 10-foot-high landscaped berm on Washington Fields Road and along the Southern Parkway; a stabilized ingress/egress to reduce track-out onto Washington Fields Road; and a required grading permit and stormwater pollution prevention plan before work begins.
City staff read the conditions into the record and answered commissioners' questions about berm height, ingress/egress wording and whether the area must be restored after the temporary operation ends. Staff and several commissioners noted the use is temporary and tied to the development's build-out, with the five-year initial term and two extensions drawing a firm outer limit.
Commissioner Mitchell moved to recommend approval of CD-24-18 with the four findings and 11 conditions in the staff report; Commissioner Scheel seconded. The commission voted unanimously: Commissioner Scheel — Aye; Commissioner Mitchell — Aye; Commissioner Tupelo — Aye; Commissioner Davis — Aye; Commissioner Bullock — Aye. The planning commissions recommendation will go to the city council for final action.
A written public comment in support was acknowledged in the record but no speakers addressed the commission in person during the hearing.
Questions from commissioners centered on long-term site restoration and the mechanics of extensions; staff said the citys permitting and land-use processes would allow the city to require cleanup when future approvals are sought but declined to prescribe a detailed demobilization schedule 15 years in advance.
