Some plants in Dallas may also be too close to residential areas, schools, parks and other public places. That’s why the city is considering a few changes in how it deals with concrete batch plants.
There are hundreds of batch plants in DFW, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.If you look around, just about everything you see is made of concrete, Josh Leftwich pointed out. He’s the president and CEO of the Texas Aggregates & Concrete Association.
Paula Blackmon, City Council member and chair of the Environment and Sustainability Committee, said the process for dealing with these plants is “fragmented.” Staff with the Planning and Urban Design Department are working on an amendment to the city’s zoning code for concrete batch plants. They want the code to be aligned with Dallas’ Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan by “ensuring new industries are an appropriate distance away from neighborhoods,” city staff said in a memo last week.
The changes could include new definitions to land use categories and minimum distances between plants and from residential areas, schools, daycares, parks and other public spaces. The city could also change performance standards for the plants “based on best management practices for storm water run-off and noxious pollutants and emissions.”
Asked how bad actors could cut corners in ways that might put people at risk and how to police those bad actors, Leftwich said: “I try not to get into good actors and bad actors. I think the state has a regulatory agency in place to oversee. The state comes and does inspections of our facilities. They make sure that requirements are being met.
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