Concerned Citizen and Life School Stakeholder:
At this time, Big City Concrete Crushing has decided not to pursue an appeal to the City Council for a permit to build the plant on the property just south of our Life School Red Oak Elementary campus. Life School directors and parents will not need to be in attendance at the next City Council meeting scheduled September 20, 2010.
Thank you for your tremendous response to the request for protest forms turned in for the Planning and Zoning Commission of Waxahachie hearing September 8, 2010. The Commission was inundated with protest forms. The Life School parents that spoke before the commission were also extremely effective in persuading the ten member commission to vote unanimously to deny the request for the plant location.
Parents and Board Members of Life School proactively taking action do make a difference in the negative or positive decisions of government. Thank you, Life School stakeholders, for acting in defense and protection of the health and safety of your children!
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BIG CITY CRUSHED CONCRETE COMPANY is applying for a permit to process concrete removed from demolished buildings and other sources. It is the opinion of Life School Administration and Board members that the concrete crushing plant will threaten the safety and health of persons in close proximity to the plant. Air quality will be affected and the noise of heavy machinery will be disruptive to the learning processes of Life School students.
Over 2,000 vehicles a day enter and exit the Oaks Fellowship/Life School Red Oak campus from 6:00 AM-6:00 PM. The school has over 1,000 students dropped off and picked up daily, and more than 5,000 church constituents that require access to the facilities. Six days a week, two police officers are hired to direct traffic at the intersections of the I-35 bridge, the north and south service roads and the Oaks Boulevard. The routing of the large trucks transporting slabs and chunks of discarded concrete will overwhelm the transportation infrastructure on both sides of the bridge and the entrances to the school and church.
The heavily loaded trucks will endanger other vehicular traffic and cause traffic congestion that will clog the transportation infrastructure that is in place.
As a stakeholder of Life School, I am asking you to protest the approval of the BIG CITY CRUSHED CONCRETE COMPANY on the proposed property, across the Oaks Boulevard to the south as shown on the enclosed map.
Please fill in the blanks on the protest form provided (Big City Crushed Concrete Company Comment Sheet) and mail it by 08/29:
The City of Waxahachie Planning and Zoning Commission
401 S. Rogers
Waxahachie, TX 75168
Suggested Bullet Points in your written reasons protesting approval of this plant:
(Identify yourself as a STAKEHOLDER of Life School. Provide personal information requested.)
- Plant threatens health/safety of our children
- Noisy machinery/truck traffic disrupt student’s learning process
- Trucks on the bridge/service roads + 2,000 vehicles entering/exiting daily = traffic accidents more numerous and severe.
- Concrete trucks will clog normal traffic flow by using the only approach available: the bridge and the service road. Police officers are hired six days a week to direct traffic presently. Impassable traffic jams will certainly result if this plant opens.
- The plant is a threat to the environment and air quality of a public school.
For our Children,
Tom Wilson, Ph.D.
Chancellor of Life School
