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Commission approves rezoning to allow slaughterhouse on Wade Bulla Road over residents' objections
Summary
After a public hearing with neighbors citing health, traffic and property-value concerns, the Carter County Board of Commissioners voted 15–4 with three abstentions to rezone a 33.5-acre property on Wade Bulla Road from A-1 to M-2, allowing an existing slaughterhouse operation to remain and expand.
The Carter County Board of Commissioners voted to rezone a 33.5-acre property on Wade Bulla Road, allowing an existing slaughterhouse operation to remain and expand.
At a public hearing, resident Evelyn Johns told the Board she and neighbors feared watershed contamination, reduced property values and increased large-truck traffic on the narrow road, and she presented letters from Holly Milhorn, Robert Calhoun and Patricia Scalf asking that the commission deny the rezoning. Johns said the facility's small signage forces large stock trailers onto private drives to turn around.
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