Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, November 19, 1984 Page: 1 of 56
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Vol. 20 No. 11
November 19, 1984
BURLESO
MONDAY
EDITION
295-0486
16 PAGES IN 1 SECTION
Council nixes
plant location
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Concrete Plant
A “batch” of mixed feelings were
itirred up at Thursday night’s meet-
lg of the Burleson City Council. A
ew industry for Burleson was turned
iown but, pardon the pun, nothing
was set in “concrete.” Council mem-
bers expressed a desire to have the
concrete batch plant locate in Burle-
son—but preferably at another loca-
tion than the one proposed.
Residents near the area of the
proposed plant were united in their
opposition to the location of the plant.
About 20 of them showed up for that
item on the lengthy council agenda,
which wasn't taken up until 8:35.
Discussion ran for an hour and 10
minutes with the council ultimately
voting unanimously to deny the re-
quest for a specific use permit to
construct the plant between Rudd and
Commerce streets, in the older sec-
tion of the city
The council did not slam the door
shut on the plant, however. The
concensus of the council was that the
city would be more than willing to
work with the plant's owner to find a
more suitable location within the city
An ironic note is that the city present-
ly has no heavy industry zoning which
would be compatible with a concrete
batch plant.
That disclosure even came as a
surprise to Mayor Jerry Boone and
most of the council members
“That’s the first thing we asked
about when we came here looking for
a site to build our plant,” Roger
Doyle told the council. When he was
told that no such zoning presently
existed in the city, he picked the site
inthe older part of town because of its
proximity to both Highway 174 and
I-ffirfttWe have trucksjn your city
every day. That’s why we want to
z locate a plant here,” he said.
^ He told the council that most of the
truck traffic would be routed onto one
or the other of those highways, or
their service roads. He also noted
that the plant would be a “state of the
art" construction project and bear
little resemblance to older plants and
their accompanying noise and dust.
He invited council members and the
city staff to tour a similar plant he
The next edition of the liiirle.on
Star will be prepared for an early
distribution on Wednesday, Nov. 21,
due to the postal holiday on Thanks-
giving Day.
Because of the earlier press day, all
deadlines have been changed for that
\ workman smooths out the concrete recently poured at the site of a new
176-unit apartment complex in Burleson, but there was no smoothing out the
problems created when a concrete batch plant applied for a specific use per
mit to construct a facility near residences in the old part of town About 20 owns in White Settlement That plant
residents showed up at the city council meeting Thursday night to protest the is just across the street from a
proposed plant residential neighborhood and creates
little, if any, problems for these
families, he said.
Councilmembers expressed an in-
terest in visiting the plant and talking
to nearby residents, but later in the
meeting decided to make the decision
that night in views of the total opposi-
tion to the plant by nearby property
owners
George Willmoth. who ow ns a com-
pressor rebuilding shop nearby, told
the council that his company could
not operate with any more dust than
that already generated by the high-
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Tuesday, Nov. 20. All news depart-
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deadline for news copy.
Most businesses, including The
Slur, will be closed Thanksgiving
Day, as will governmental offices and
financial institutions.
City sanitation trucks will operate
on a normal schedule on both Monday
and Tuesday, but those will be the
only trash pickups of the week There
will be no garbage pickups on either
Thursday or Friday.
ways. He also said that his business
would be hampered by any additional
noise. “We’d just have to move if the
plant goes in,” he told the council.
‘ ‘The noise problem would not be so
much with the batch plant itself, but
with the trucks,” Joe Hester said.
Terming himself the closest resident
to the proposed plant, he said that
Burleson definitely needed ail the
industry it could attract, but not that
close to a residential neighborhood
Linda Stowe said she was proud of
the part of town in which she lived.
Although it is an older part of the city,
she said she didn’t want the area to
deteriorate with the addition of a
heavy industry. She said that one of
her two children had asthma and
could be bothered by an increase in
the dust. She also pointed out that city
streets in that part of town were
already such a problem that she
could hardly get hercardown them.
About a half dozen other people
spoke, all but one against the pro-
posed location of the plant. The one
person in favor, Bryan McCarthy, did
not live in the city but was attending
the council meeting as a school pro-
ject He said he was pro business and
that a similar plant in Madill, Okla
operated in a residential area without
creating a problem
Noise, dust, and damage to city
streets were the key issues with the
council. Doyle assured council mem-
bers that none of these would be a
factor should the plant be allowed to
locate on that site “If you've already
made up your mind, 1 won’t be able to
change it, but 1 assure you the plant
can be operated without increasing
the dust in the af*ea.” Doyle saiif He
also stressed that the trucks would be
using city streets very little and that
the company would work with the city
in following established truck routes
He pointed out that the overall noise
level in the city would probably be
reduced since trucks would not be
coming in from out of town with as
much regularity once the plant was in
production here. As for the noise level
on the site, he said that a noise level
survey commissioned by the compa
ny indicated that highway noise al-
ready exceeded the level permitted
under the city's ordinance
The study indicated that, for the
most part, the noise genera ted by the
plant would fall within the guidelines
established by city ordinance A sep-
arate study was conducted by the city
with about the same results
Councilman Jerry Gibbs said Vie
had been around similar plants all his
life and that while the actual plant
noise could possibly be controlled, the
noise of the trucks could not
Councilman Lewis Ash said that,
despite the proximity to the two
major highways, the company could
not have picked a less accessible in
the city In particular he pointed out
the intersection of the east 1-35 ser-
vice road and Renfro and the difficul-
ty of getting on Highway 174 at
HSllery
Plans were to pour 200 yards of
concrete per day with five trucks
being stationed at the plant That
would amount to about four trips per
day per truck. In addition, trucks
bearing the raw materials would also
have to make several trips a day into
the plant.
A concrete batch plant takes the
raw materials that go into concrete
and mixes them for delivery to con-
struction sites by cement trucks
Despite assurances that the plant met
the standards of theair quality board,
the council feared that the air stand-
ards of nearby residents would be
even more strenuous and that dust
would inevitably blow from the piles
of raw materials.
Although the vote to deny the speci-
fic use permit was unanimous, there
was some disagreement on the coun-
cil as to whether or not the company
failed to comply with ordinance re-
quirements Since the area is zoned
light industry and a concrete batch
plant is permissableif it meets all the
requirements for that category, fail-
ure to meet these requirements was
the only reason the council could
legally deny the permit The unsuita
bility of the site was not in itself,
justification for denying the permit
There was no disagreement, how-
ever, the city should work with the
company in any way possible to help
them locate here at another site.
Doyle was referred to Councilman
Cliff Lopez, who is on the chamber of
commerce committee presently
working on acquiring industrial sites
within the city
Action was also taken on a request
from the corporation which owns the
Burleson Industrial Development
Corporation The corporation devel
oped the industrial park on either side
of Renfro Street just west of 1-35
Because the corporation is in the
process of disbanding, it has re-
quested a modification in the escrow
contract for the completion of Lov
Street
Only about 10 foot of that street is
incomplete and that is because a
drainage problem delayed the com
pletion of that last short section The
corporation is asking that it be al
lowed to place $600 in the escrow
account to pay for the eventual con
struction of that street
City Engineer Bob Brown said that
was the amount required to complete
the street and the council voted 7-0 to
so modify the escrow account
Chamber to
name directors
Ballots containing names of 10 in-
dividuals up for election to the
Burleson Area Chamber of Com-
merce Board of Directors have
recently been mailed to chamber
members, according to Executive
Vice President Barbara Gieser A
deadline date for ballots to be receiv-
ed back in the chamber office has
been set for Nov. 30, no later than 5
p.m she added
Of the 15 members of the board.
five have served three year terms
which will expire this year. Outgoing
directors this year will be Dr. Dennis
Dean, Cliff Lopez, Les Sells, Bill
Stribling, and James Moody.
On the ballot for election to fill
those five positions is a slate of 10
candidates, including Paul Buening,
CPA, Paul Buening & Associates;
Bob Cosby, owner Cobsy Chevrolet;
Royla Cox, attorney with Robert J.
See Chamber, Page 7
Hutson services held
Funeral services for H.F. “Fred”
Hutson, 82, were conducted at 2 p.m.
Tuesday at the Sullivan Funeral
Home Chapel in Vernon, Texas with
the Rev. Jerry Woods officiating.
Music for the service was provided by
Wanda Lamb and Bud Adkins, who
sang "In the Shelter of His Arms,”
and “Amazing Grace.”
Interment was at Wilbarger Memo-
rial Park in Vernon. Pallbearers
were church deacons and friends of
the family, including Andy Brumley,
J.O. Kinsey, Hardy Stogsdill, Charles
Brannon, Bob Dunavant, and Finis
Boyd.
Hutson died Sunday, Nov. It, fol-
lowing two weeks of hospitalization in
a Vernon hospital. He was the victim
of a heart attack. He had been a
Vernon resident for 43 years, residing
at 1920 Pearl Street at the time of his
death.
He was born Dec. 26, 1901, in
Waldorf, Ark., the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Hutson. On Nov. 6, 1937,
he married the former Mary Morri-
son in Vernon. Hutson was a retired
Wilbarger County employee in the
maintenance department. He was a
member of the Second Baptist Church
of Vernon.
Survivors include his wife, Mary E.
Hutson of Vernon; and a son, Chuck
Hutson of Burleson, former publisher
of the Rurlenon Star. Another son,
Wayne Hutson, was owner of the Star
from the time of its infancy until his
death in March, 1981.
Hutson is also survived by a daugh-
ter, Sarah Ellis of Vernon; a daugh-
ter-in-law, Sue Hutson of Burleson,
owner of the Sior; a sister, Eva Carr
of Colbert, Okla., seven grandchild-
ren; and four great grandchildren.
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Smashup Near Joshua
Iturlvium SlfirBvron Travis
This heavily damaged pickup truck was involved Friday afternoon in an ac-
cident on Highway 174 about a mile north of Joshua. The 1955 Chevy pickup,
driven by Kittie Sanders, 26. of Burleson, struck the rear of a 1977 Chevrolet
station wagon driven by Claude H. Lowe of Keene. Ms Lowe and her four-
year-old daughter Stephanie were taken >v ambulance to Huguley Hospital
for treatment of injuries. At last report Ms Lowe had been treated and
released, but Stephanie was in intensive care for treatment of a concussion
According to witnesses at the scene, the car driven by Lowe was backing up
on the highway when the collision occured
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