I’ve mentioned before that the Public Hearing for the proposed concrete plant on Murphy Hill Road was rescheduled for Wednesday, May 14. It will be held at the North Buncombe Middle School at 5:30 p.m. The auditorium at the school can hold 400 people and opponents want to fill the auditorium.

The concrete plant proposal is the only item on the agenda. Proponents of the plant will go first, followed by expert witnesses for the opposition, then any citizens who wish to speak. Organizers are asking remarks be kept short (under three minutes unless you’re an expert witness), polite, factual, and non-repetitive.

North Buncombe Middle School is located at 51 North Buncombe School Road.

If you need more information about the proposal and the reason for the opposition, here’s some of the more recent articles about it, and the public hearing process that’s stretched out for months (it actually started before I began publishing this website):

MyWeaverville.com Posts

Mountain Xpress Articles
Round Two
Concrete Plant Halted on a Technicality
Concrete Plans Not Yet Firm

Weaverville Tribune
Hearing on Proposed Plant Not Concrete (PDF, story of page 9)
Court Schedules Public Hearings for Concrete Plant (PDF, story on page 6)
Shepherd Now Owns Murphy Hill Land (PDF, story on page 27)

Asheville Citizen-Times
Concrete Plant Hearing Stopped

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