Councilman Harold Wales said at a council meeting on Monday night the council would not have agreed to de-annex a property if it had realized the owner would build an asphalt plant there.
The only governmental impediment to a controversial asphalt plant planned just outside Athens city limits was removed last week when the Alabama Department of Environmental Management issued an air permit to Grayson Carter & Son Contracting Inc.
“When we did so, I understood — and so did others on the council — that when the dirt activities were concluded, that the property would be put to residential uses,” Wales said. “Clearly that’s not happening, and I feel misled by it. I think many of us feel that way.” The agency said that while it “acknowledges concerns of the residents of Limestone County” for issues such as “property value, aesthetics, noise traffic,” it has no statutory authority to deny or revise an air permit on these grounds.
“However, even with the operation of the required air pollution control devices ... odors may occur from this type of operation,” ADEM said. ADEM also said there was no legal justification “for limits to the number of hours the facility is allowed to operate.”
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