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Commission approves minor plat for temporary ready-mix batch plant with exceptions
Summary
The Coppell Planning and Zoning Commission approved a minor plat allowing a temporary ready-mix batch plant to operate for up to six months on a 4.47-acre site, granting exceptions to public road frontage and utility-extension requirements and requiring site reclamation and engineering review for any future permanent use.
The Coppell Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously July 16 to approve a minor plat that will allow a temporary ready-mix batch plant to operate for up to 180 days on a 4.47-acre parcel north of East Beltline Road.
Matt Steer, a city staff planner, told the commission the use is allowed by right in the Light Industrial district so long as operations will not exceed 180 days and the site is platted. Staff recommended approval of the minor plat while granting the two exceptions the applicant requested: relief from the ordinary public road frontage requirement and a waiver to extend water service to the site.
Applicant representatives Phil Flink and Steve Glisco said the plant is intended for a single six-month contract; they said water will be trucked onto the site and stored in tanks, operations can be shut down within days at the project’s end, and a reclamation requirement will return the site to its prior condition within 30 days of permit expiration. Flink said the group holds a long-term lease on the property and has an incentive to restore the land.
Steer and the applicant said standard permit conditions will require firefighters’ access, a 24-foot fire lane for any permanent development, and a replat if the property later seeks permanent industrial use. Steer also said staff will pursue a text amendment limiting temporary batch plant permits on a single property to once every five years.
A commissioner moved approval and the Commission took a roll-call vote; Cammie McGee, city board secretary, read the roll and the motion carried unanimously with all present voting Aye.
