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Article: Christiansburg council vetoes concrete plant
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Town council denied Tuesday a request to locate a concrete plant
in the town's Industrial Park.
Boxley, a customer-directed supplier of concrete mixes, had
requested a zoning permit for property on the southern side of
Prospect Drive for a concrete-ready mix-batch plant in the general
industrial district.
However, residents and some tenants in the Industrial Park
expressed concerns about the dust and noise generated by the plant,
the additional traffic on an already congested Roanoke Street and
worries about Boxley oversaturating the concrete market.
Some speakers referred to the existing Marshall Concrete Products
of Christiansburg, a division of Chandler Concrete of Virginia, and ...