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Board denies Reccan concrete‑contracting home‑business request after neighbors cite noise, traffic and safety problems
Summary
The board denied a request to establish a major home‑based concrete contracting business at 1944 Weeks Road after staff found the proposed scale incompatible with the residential area and neighbors described heavy truck traffic, noise, burning odors and safety issues.
Planning staff presented Application BZA‑20262 for a major home‑based business to allow a concrete contracting operation at 1944 Weeks Road that would store up to six work trucks with trailers, heavy equipment and materials in structures totaling about 7,200 square feet. Staff noted the property is in an RM (rural) zone and that the volume of activity and storage raised compatibility concerns with the residential character of the area.
Applicant counsel described the facility as primarily a storage and dispatch point for drivers who leave to job sites; the attorney and applicant said most maintenance is done offsite and that only one employee would remain on site. Neighbors and several public speakers, including a commissioner and numerous homeowners (speakers 4, 36, 29, 26, 5, 32 and 37), provided extended testimony describing early‑morning and late‑night truck activity, semi‑trailers blocking the road while unloaded, burning of materials that created odors, parties at night, and safety problems with large equipment on narrow residential roads.
Board members noted the site had been the subject of code enforcement complaints and that the intensity of operation exceeded typical home‑business bounds; staff concluded the application did not meet ordinance criteria. A motion to deny carried on roll call.
