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Planning commission approves Volunteer Asphalt site plan; commissioners press for permits, traffic controls
Summary
The commission approved a site plan for a new Volunteer Asphalt mixing plant in the industrial park, contingent on required state environmental permits; commissioners asked detailed questions about truck stacking, hours and air permits.
The White House Planning Commission approved Feb. 9 a site plan for Volunteer Asphalt to locate a new asphalt mixing plant in the city’s industrial park, finding the proposed use is permitted in heavy industrial zoning and staff comments had been addressed.
Joshua Line of Clover Engineering and Jason Waddell, who identified himself as president of Volunteer Asphalt, presented the plan and said state and environmental permits (including an air permit) have been applied for. Waddell said standard manufacturing hours would be roughly 6 a.m. to 4–5 p.m. and that 3–5 material-delivery trucks would bring in material on a typical day; company representatives said they model average on-site stacking of about 15 trucks with maximum production capacity figures presented in a traffic study.
Commissioners pressed on where trucks would queue and how overflow would be handled during peak times and school-hour traffic; company representatives said trucks would be stacked inside the yard, monitored by a logistics system and rerouted if backups occurred. “We will move all trucks to our capacity to be internal,” Jason Waddell said, adding the company monitors truck locations and reroutes to avoid on-street stacking.
A commissioner asked about air-quality metrics; company representatives said Tennessee regulators (TDEC) administer air permits and annual testing and that the operation could not legally operate without required permits. Staff and commissioners noted the site plan approval is contingent on obtaining all required permits and meeting permit conditions.
After reconvening from an executive session for legal advice, the commission voted to approve the site plan on a voice vote. Staff emphasized that operation cannot begin until state and environmental permits are issued and compliance demonstrated.
