NO HEAVY INDUSTRIAL REZONING IN A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT!
Supplemental Site Investigation and Semi-Annual Monitoring Report January – June 2012
The Mt Gilead Church Rd corridor has been zoned Residential since December 1983, with the one exception being the former Lee Paving site located on Sugar Lake Rd. This site has been and continues to be a residential non-conforming lot. Lee Paving sold the plant to S.T. Wooten in September 2000. What was a small paving company, grandfathered in when the zoning took place, has been rebuilt and is now one of the largest asphalt plants in North Carolina, incompatible with a residential area. S.T. Wooten has expanded their operations dramatically and often runs 24 hours a day with tremendous noise and truck traffic disturbing the neighbors through the night.
Heavy Industrial activity is not compatible with a Residential neighborhood. The relatively low level of activity conducted by Lee Paving has been eclipsed by ST Wooten’s mega operation that often runs hundreds of trucks per day and night. Wooten justifies their nighttime activity by stating that “the NC DOT requires night time supplies to road projects". This is all the more reason why this activity should be conducted in an industrial park or a industrial zoned area and not in a residential neighborhood.
How Wooten affects our property values and impacts our water supply (click here)
This is not a political issue. We have Republicans, Democrats and Independents in our group, united in asking the County Commissioners to protect our property values, our quality of life and our neighborhoods.
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Heavy Industrial activity is not compatible with a Residential neighborhood. The relatively low level of activity conducted by Lee Paving has been eclipsed by ST Wooten’s mega operation that often runs hundreds of trucks per day and night. Wooten justifies their nighttime activity by stating that “the NC DOT requires night time supplies to road projects". This is all the more reason why this activity should be conducted in an industrial park or a industrial zoned area and not in a residential neighborhood.
How Wooten affects our property values and impacts our water supply (click here)
This is not a political issue. We have Republicans, Democrats and Independents in our group, united in asking the County Commissioners to protect our property values, our quality of life and our neighborhoods.
Please enter your contact information here so we can keep you updated on this issue.