Some news from our Flat Creek neighbors. Mountain Xpress is reporting the public hearing for the proposed concrete plant at Murphy Hill Road was adjourned due to “insufficient notification of the project’s neighbors.”

A proposed North Buncombe concrete plant hearing before the Buncombe County Board of Adjustment was adjourned after two hours of testimony due to insufficient notification of the project’s neighbors.
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a March 12 hearing before the Board of Adjustment was cut short — after testimony from representatives of the plant and two opposing speakers — once it surfaced that letters notifying adjacent landowners of the hearing were mailed nine days earlier. By law, those letters had to be mailed at least 10 days before the hearing.
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The adjournment means the process will start all over again with a new application from Blue Ridge Concrete. County Zoning Administrator Jim Coman told Xpress that discussions are underway to find a date for another hearing, but that Blue Ridge Concrete will not have to resubmit its application.

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Also online:
Citizen-Times article
WLOS video

Here’s a quick video of the crowd that turned out for the hearing:

Video by Ashvegas

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